I'm looking forward to changing the OSM tagging on one of the most infamous stretches of "sidewalk=no" in this city.
This segment of Camino de Colmenar is only about 200m long, but requires pedestrians to walk through a narrow ravine on a busy road or in a drainage channel.
After nearly 20 years of campaigning by local residents, today's newspapers report that work has started to construct a sidewalk on one side.
El Camino del Colmenar deja atrás mucha inseguridad vial
«Esto era jugarse la vida; yo me metía dentro del canalón pero estaba lleno de porquería», recuerda Reme Jiménez.Alfonso Vázquez (La opinión de Málaga)
grin
•Well done! It's a very welcome map change!
Alan Grant
•@grin It will be, but I know that "work has started" does not always lead automatically to "work has finished", so I won't be making it just yet!
Apparently this stretch of road fell into a black hole of responsibility between the city and regional levels of government.
grin
•At least it is one step closer to the `sidewalk=yes` changeset!
(Anecdote: a very rich arab guy came around Hungary and said that they want to build this and that. Locals asked: "What's the guarantee that if you start it then you will also finish it?" The guy was _very_ confused: "I don't understand, if we start building then we finish, why wouldn't we?!" Different culture, different amount of money.)
Alan Grant
•So, 3 weeks have passed. Has the work progressed enough to survey it, and finally add that sidewalk tag?
No. It has not.
@grin