The Regional Government will draft the project for the pending phase of Benidorm's Paseo de Poniente in 2025

The Ministry of Environment, Infrastructure and Territory will draft the project for the next phase, the pending one, of the Paseo de Poniente, which corresponds to Avenida Vicente Llorca Alós, whose material execution corresponds to the ministry. This was announced this afternoon in Benidorm by Minister Vicente Martínez Mus during a visit to the City Hall where he held a working meeting with the Mayor Toni Pérez and the councillors whose areas are related to this infrastructure. Also present at the meeting were the regional Secretary for Infrastructure, Javier Sendra, the Director General of Coasts, Ports and Airports, Marc García, and the Director General of Transport and Logistics, Manuel Ríos.

Vicente Martínez stressed that his department “had in mind to work on the Paseo de Poniente because the City Hall has been demanding for a long time that the Government of Spain fulfil its pending duties”. That is the reason, he said, “why we agreed to move forward and draft the project for this promenade”. In this sense, the councillor has regretted that if the project and the next phase of the promenade have not seen the light “it has been because the City Council has only found excuses from the Ministry”.

The councillor has confirmed that he will allocate an item in the 2025 budget to tender the project that same year “with all the pending issues and matters that need to be resolved”. But he has indicated that “we are already in the preliminary work to proceed with the tender next year”. Vicente Martínez has assured us that “we are going to improve and we will do it together”. The purpose of this tender and drafting of the project is “to give everything well chewed up to the Government so that it has no more excuses and can execute it as soon as possible”.

For his part, Toni Pérez has valued the work of a councillor “who has his homework done, with everything prepared and planned” and has highlighted that if there is progress “it is because there are people who work for the Valencian Community and cities like Benidorm specifically, as is this case”.

Regarding how the promenade will develop in the Vicente Llorca Alós section, the mayor has specified that the decision has always been made “to follow the aesthetics of the promenade that has already been completed”. “We want continuity in the promenade, but taking into account the differences and peculiarities because the concept is different in this case”. However, Pérez has insisted that “there is a joint project” and recalled that “there is a joint agreement by which the Government, the Generalitat and the City Council committed to executing their corresponding 33% of the entire promenade”. “The only one that has not complied has been the Government of Spain” he added.

On this point, the mayor has compared this case with that of the Police Station “where we gave up the necessary land and we have been delayed for six years, the same number of years that Pedro Sánchez has been in the Government”. With the decision of the Ministry “the duties that correspond to the Ministry are done and when the project is done it will be handed over so that it has no more excuses and recovers the financing”.

Finally, Toni Pérez has asked the Government “to assess the return in environmental and economic sustainability of the infrastructure” and has emphasised that “Benidorm contributes a lot to the State’s coffers in our economic activity, so our seafront deserves the best possible treatment”. For his part, Vicente Martínez has stated that all the work “will be done in coordination with the City Council so that what is done has continuity and logic, which is what has always been demanded”. “We want the best possible result” he concluded.