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The offending roundabout, showing damage to the edges.
Dangerous new roundabout on Benalmádena Costa axed already

Dangerous new roundabout on Benalmádena Costa axed already

The recently-built traffic circle still hasn’t been used as the road is too narrow to turn properly but, for a bizarre financial reason, it cannot be knocked down

ALBERTO GÓMEZ

Friday, 18 August 2017, 10:27

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Recently motorists heading along the main coast road though the heart of Benalmádena Costa have become used to carrying out a strange manoeuvre to avoid hitting a newly built mini roundabout.

The traffic island has been the cause of a number of accidents, including one involving local councillor Beatriz Olmedo, as reported in SURin English last week. And all this when cars are still not allowed to turn at it.

The danger arises as the space in the road isnt wide enough for longer vehicles to turn properly. It was revealed this week that a required safety impact study wasnt actually done until after it was built.

Cars coming along the fast lane of the dual carriageway in either direction are suddenly faced with swerving into the slow lane to avoid hitting the protruding structure.

Councillors have now decided to do something about the problem. But the reason it cannot be knocked down again is even more bizarre than the way it has been built.

The council says that, as it was paid for with part of a one-million- euro grant from the Diputación provincial authority, if they remove it, by law theyll have to pay the money back. Instead the edges will be shaved off and it will never be used as a proper roundabout.

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