€2.2m Torremolinos resurfacing contract takes in 67,000 square metres and a battered, potholed MA-20 motorway

Torremolinos Town Hall has sent out an asphalting contract worth more than €2 million out to cover 67,000 square metres of worn tarmac around the Costa del Sol town. This is the third programme of its kind and is meant to tidy up broken and deteriorated surfaces, road safety, accessibility and how traffic actually moves.

Firms have until September 22 to bid through Spain’s public procurement platform. Five months are allowed to finish the job once the job is awarded. Crews will rip out failed tarmac, lay a new wearing course, raise manholes and grilles and drains, and repaint road markings on the stretches that get done.

MA-20 access near the Malaga boundary is on the list

One package covers a stretch of the MA-20 around Avenida Manuel Fraga Iribarne, where Torremolinos meets Malaga via the airport turn-off. Cracks, potholes and crumbling stone have left that gateway looking rough and feeling worse for anyone coming off the dual carriageway.

That earlier ownership wrangle still matters, because this contract now puts money against the same worn surface drivers have been moaning about for years. A bigger, longer-term upgrade of the MA-20 corridor towards Malaga airport has been talked about for years as well.

Local streets used every day come next

Residential and shopping streets that people use for school runs, errands and night-time traffic are said to be high on the queue of priorities. The Town Hall wants a standing annual budget line so resurfacing becomes a regular habit rather than a rare splash. The worst-worn patches will get first dibs, so cars and walkers get a quieter, safer stroll.

Busy neighbourhoods with shops, holiday lets and year-round residents should feel fewer interruptions and fewer trips on broken edges. Updates will go out as work moves so households and businesses can dodge the worst of the cones.

Road safety has already been a running theme in town, from a new speed camera on Avenida de la Libertad to earlier street works. Official Spanish road-safety advice from the DGT still applies while surfaces stay patchy: slower speeds and extra distance on broken tarmac.

Bids and paperwork are on the state contracting platform; town notices appear on the Torremolinos Town Hall site.