IN 2019, the municipality of Estepona, on the Costa del Sol, made headlines for all the wrong reasons, when a metal slide installed by the city had to be closed the day after it opened for safety reasons.
He council’s strange plan was to make it easier for residents to go from a higher street to a lower one in record time, but the ‘biggest urban landslide in Spain’ lasted only 24 hours due to injuries such as bruises and burns suffered by those who had the courage to try it.
However, the incident has not deterred the local council from the idea of these slides for adults. The municipality opened its new city hall building on Friday, the fourth and fifth floors of which are linked by, you guessed it, another metal slide.
The two floors will be used by municipal workers, according to the online newspaper El Diario, and they are the ones who will potentially be the users of this new facility.
Videos and photos have circulated of the new slide, which is metal like the last one but in this instance is closed rather than semicircular.
“The city and its neighbors have more important needs than this to cover with public money,” complained Emma Molina, spokeswoman for the opposition Socialist Party (PSOE), adding that the Popular Party mayor is “turning Estepona into a kind of joke “. .
One more thing the two slides have in common is the timing of their unveiling: In 2019, the slide was released just before local elections; the next surveys are scheduled for May of this year.
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