The Diputación de Málaga (Málaga Provincial Council) is allocating €1,317,527.22 to the first phase of a pedestrian path along the A-377 road, between Manilva and San Luis de Sabinillas, which will be one kilometre long.
This path will run alongside the road and aims to boost pedestrian routes from the town centre and the housing developments towards one of the municipality’s most significant natural areas: its beaches.
The president of the Diputación de Málaga, Francisco Salado, has explained that the provincial institution, through its Department of the Environment, Inland Tourism, Climate Change and Sport, has approved a grant of €1.3 million to Manilva Town Hall so that it can put the work out to tender and carry it out. The path will be suitable for walking and cycling.
Salado highlighted the provincial institution’s support for projects put forward by municipalities on pedestrian accessibility and sustainability, in this case creating a safe, uninterrupted pedestrian route along the whole edge of the A-377 road (Manilva-Gaucín), as a commitment to linking leisure, nature and the urban centre in Manilva.
Route
The total length of the road linking Manilva with San Luis de Sabinillas is almost two kilometres. Manilva Town Hall has drawn up the project, which in a first phase will run along the east side of the A-377 and will be 1,060 metres long, the Diputación said in a statement.
The main aim of the work is to improve pedestrian access from the urban centre of Manilva to the coastal district of San Luis de Sabinillas, removing the barrier posed by the road, which has no sections adapted for pedestrians.
Street lighting will also be installed, and the necessary measures will be taken to respect and protect the local vegetation and wildlife in the area.
An improvement on the current route
At present, the east side of the road, at the start from San Luis de Sabinillas, has some irregular and disconnected stretches of pedestrian walkway, which have also deteriorated considerably. The rest of the road edge has no road works of any kind that would allow pedestrians to walk safely.
According to the Manilva Town Hall project, the planned width of the path is three metres, which includes the space for the concrete safety barrier protecting pedestrians from vehicles on the road, as well as for the pedestrian safety railing on the structures. The effective width of the path will therefore be two and a half metres.
To build the path, the existing hard shoulder will be used to create a platform with a stamped concrete base, and in some sections a rock-fill wall will be needed to support the platform. In addition, illuminated markers attached to the safety barriers will be installed along the whole route, on the side facing the path.
