San Antonio Super-Bay A 20 million euro budget has been agreed to construct a ment from the entire community. Since first publishing details I the poor relation suburb of san an. We are not the same town coastline paseo (promenade) in the Bay of San Antonio. would estimate a fairly even level of response pro and con. hall, not the same police. It is like asking Liverpool to pay for Amongst those who do not support the project there are very Manchester's problems. Object to the prom sure, but not in The new paseo will run the entire length of the bay valid reasons. Chris Langley has been active in the development comparing us and the budget's better use in San An. from Port des Torrent to join up with the existing paseo of the bay for many years and he is opposed to the promenade They have a marina, commercial centre, post office, health in San Antonio, and thereby create a new connected San on the grounds of its environmental impact. a totally fair posi- centre, bus station, fountains, street art installations, police Antonio Super-Bay. tion that can be respected on its merits. However, the majority station, cinema, football stadium, swimming baths, velodrome, The project will take 5 years to complete, and when of people opposed to the plan are presenting arguments as to church, and a bloody great paseo. We haven't got any of that. how the money could be better spent dealing with San Anto- none. All we've got is a light up roundabout that got nicked a finished it will be possible to walk/cycle on the coast- nio’s problems, such as street crime and street sellers. week after being built, and a community dirt patch with never line paseo all the way from Cala Gracio north of San Since many of those voices are not local people anyway, I would enough bbq grills. Antonio around to Port des Torrent. like to share a response made to one of those objections earlier San An's problems are not down to money anyway. Damned if Our full report is on page 2. A word here to responses since the this week. I write it as a Cala de Bou Resident. we should hand over 20 million to watch them be ineffective schemes announcement. Might not be front page stuff, but nowhere else left to go. for the next 10 years. If we wanted to do that we may as well A project of this magnitude will never find consensus of agree- “I think the people of cala de bou are fed up being treated as just buy wolves”. The Ibizan, Issue 870, 10th August 2017 links are live in the online edition at theibizan.com Page 2 News Overtaking Nutter Kills Man, Flees Scene, & Released from Jail The Next Morning Sorry but I really can’t be make an example of him in bothered to try and write an effort to make our all an objective report on this. too unsafe roads a little bit Considered it biased or safer? editorial or whatever. The very next morning the We all know how danger- Ibiza court simply releases ous the main Ibiza to Santa him from custody with no Eulalia Road is. stated conditions of parole. We’ve all seen nutters Accidents happen, but overtaking along there and driving as he was described in doing so playing Russian to be driving by multiple Welcome to San An Super-Bay! Roulette with their lives witnesses should not be a and those of other road situation where the word users. accident applies. It should An Italian in a tourist rental be murder. A 20 million euro budget has been agreed to tourist beds on the island, and has a sizeable resident com- car was doing exactly that – And look out Ibiza, he could construct a coastline paseo (promenade) in the munity – very possibly the biggest in San Jose, though i have as confirmed by several eye be out there driving on the Bay of San Antonio. no figures to back that up. Many living and working in the witnesses. roads again now. area view themselves as the poor relations of the municipali- He caused a high speed This is on top of the recent The new paseo will run the entire length of the ty. crash that killed a 34 year case where a young driver bay from Port des Torrent to join up with the Considered by the outside world as part of San Antonio, old Brazilian man riding a spent no prison time what- existing paseo in San Antonio, and thereby cre- some locals feel their own San Jose town hall is content to moto who worked at the soever despite being found ate a new connected San Antonio Super-Bay. consider them a San An suburb, and leave the people look- Aguas de Ibiza hotel in guilty of homicide due to ing to their next door municipality for the resources that Santa Eulària. reckless driving whilst The project will take 5 years to complete, and would be considered essential if San Antonio were not close The Italian driver is said to speeding, drunk, and on when finished it will be possible to walk/cycle on by. A post office, police station, that kind of thing. have stopped momentarily. drugs. the coastline paseo all the way from Cala Gracio The area is also blighted by the abandoned hotels that are a Then raced off from the Some weird sense of priori- north of San Antonio around to Port des Tor- blot of the landscape and effectively cut the bay in two, scene. ties Ibiza. Shame the driver rent. creating a deadzone that tourists do not tend to traverse. He was not caught until 8 wasn’t found to have his Add to this a one way system in a much criticised plan of hours later by when Police stereo turned up loud, he’d excellence which includes busses that take its own tourists could not issue alcohol probably be doing a ten Funding out of the area without them even seeing what the rest of tests. stretch by now. The 20 million euro budget also allows for improvements their own neighbourhood has to offer. The area has/had a And so how is he dealt with along the passage of the paseo including jetties and pump- disproportionate ratio of all inclusives, meaning the money by the courts? How do we ing stations. The project is the first major public works to was never coming outside the hotel grounds. The list goes use funds raised from the recently introduced eco/tourist on. tax, which will pay half of the total cost, 10 million euros. Despite these pressures that are to large extent outside of The Consell de Ibiza will then pay 5 million euros, with the its control. Cala de Bou also has to look to itself in why the remaining 5 million being paid by the municipalities in ratio area has declined. Mayor Valdés said there is a “unanimity of the amount of construction in their own borough. and consensus that areas of the bay have an aspect of deg- In effect this will leave the vast majority of that 5 million radation”. A bit harsh? Not to my mind, I´d go further. with San Jose. The new paseo will connect with the existing Recently there have been exciting new developments such San Antonio paseo that currently terminates near punta des as the Pinet Playa Ibiza Rocks hotel, Axel Beach and the moli windmill. This will leave a few hundred metres of the Beach Star, all of which bring a new dynamic to the bay. But new paseo to be built inside the municipality of San Antonio, walk its length of a night and you are still left with a feeling with the rest which forms the vast majority, inside San Jose. of being stuck in a 1990s seasonal groundhog day. The new paseo will be 5 metres wide, allowing space for I do walk its length occasionally, for strictly research purpos- pedestrians, a dedicated cycle lane, and planting/ es you understand, and though there are exceptions doing installations. very well, the majority view is of year on year decline. To my Where the new paseo has to traverse a beach, the construc- mind it is the measurement of that decline against the halcy- tion will be in timber, in order to minimise any negative envi- on heyday of package holidays and “a pint to a peseta” ex- ronmental impact. change rate that is of greatest concern. Those days are gone and they are not coming back. Some of the less forward- Hell’s Angel on the Run after Joint Announcement thinking businesses will understandably resist the new pa- seo as a change that is likely to take a lot of the already The project was announced jointly by the mayor of Sant dwindling footfall away from their door. I do not know if Armed Guardia Civil Raid Josep, Josep Marí Ribas Agustinet, and the first deputy there is comfort or reassurance available to give them. The mayor of Sant Antoni, Pablo Valdés. Police are hunting a Hell’s be unusually quiet during bay needs rejuvenation and there may be casualties, but I Angel who escaped their daytime hours. Marí Ribas said that the proposal “meets all the require- am sure the majority will see the development as the posi- ments of the type of project that should be presented to be grasp during a drug Police were in concealed tive it is.