Car hits tram in Vélez-Málaga

A car driver was slightly injured after he jumped a red light at the Molino de Velasco roundabout in Vélez-Málaga and hit a tram, the latest in a long line of accidents involving the Tranvia trams.

Rural thefts continue

Four men have been arrested in Vélez- Málaga after they stole 180 kilos of chirimoyas (custard apples) from a farm on the Camino de la Igualada. The thieves were spotted by a watchmen and the Local Police intercepted the van full of fruit near the highway.

Back to the drawing board

Vélez-Málaga Council is now exploring alternative means of setting up a district Foreigners Department in Torre del Mar after the Central Government finally announced it had decided not to set up such a facility in the town and handed back a property ceded by the Council for this purpose.

The neverending tram saga in Vélez-Málaga

The socialist Mayor of Vélez-Málaga, Salomé Arroyo, has made a commitment to maintain three-way talks in an attempt to try and reduce the technical rate of the much-troubled Tranvia tram system in the town and to pave the way for the second section of the tram to be made operational after two years of delays.

Vélez-Málaga once again studying the use of CCTV

The Mayor of Vélez-Málaga has resurrected the idea of installing CCTV cameras in various parts of the municipality to combat delinquency, particularly in connection with a proposed new transport scheme.

The trams in Vélez-Málaga…

It is easy to see why the Tranvia tram system in Vélez-Málaga is having such a hard time. I was in Torre del Mar the other day and saw half a dozen trams go past and the number of occupants on each (whole) tram ranged from 2 to a staggering 8. For some reason it just doesn’t seem to have …

Avocado thefts in Vélez-Málaga

ASAJA, the Association of Young Farmers, has reported that a number of thefts of avocados have taken place during the past week from farms in Vélez-Málaga, in some cases up to 4,000 kilos of the fruit. The avocados are very green as they were not due to be harvested until December. Police are looking for a gang of thieves with …