San Antonio Super-Bay A 20 million euro budget has been agreed to construct a coastline paseo (promenade) in the Bay of San Antonio. The new paseo will run the entire length of the bay from Port des Torrent to join up with the existing paseo in San Antonio, and thereby create a new connected San Antonio Super-Bay. The project will take 5 years to complete, and when finished it will be possible to walk/cycle on the coastline paseo all the way from Cala Gracio north of San Antonio around to Port des Torrent. Our full report is on page 2. A word here to responses since the schemes announcement. A project of this magnitude will never find consensus of agree-
ment from the entire community. Since first publishing details I would estimate a fairly even level of response pro and con. Amongst those who do not support the project there are very valid reasons. Chris Langley has been active in the development of the bay for many years and he is opposed to the promenade on the grounds of its environmental impact. a totally fair position that can be respected on its merits. However, the majority of people opposed to the plan are presenting arguments as to how the money could be better spent dealing with San Antonio’s problems, such as street crime and street sellers. Since many of those voices are not local people anyway, I would like to share a response made to one of those objections earlier this week. I write it as a Cala de Bou Resident. Might not be front page stuff, but nowhere else left to go. “I think the people of cala de bou are fed up being treated as
the poor relation suburb of san an. We are not the same town hall, not the same police. It is like asking Liverpool to pay for Manchester's problems. Object to the prom sure, but not in comparing us and the budget's better use in San An. They have a marina, commercial centre, post office, health centre, bus station, fountains, street art installations, police station, cinema, football stadium, swimming baths, velodrome, church, and a bloody great paseo. We haven't got any of that. none. All we've got is a light up roundabout that got nicked a week after being built, and a community dirt patch with never enough bbq grills. San An's problems are not down to money anyway. Damned if we should hand over 20 million to watch them be ineffective for the next 10 years. If we wanted to do that we may as well just buy wolves”.