El Parque Lineal de Zihuatanejo

I'm glad folks like it. I still regret that deception was used to obtain the money for this venture when we have so many other more pressing priorities being neglected, such as the Madera walkway, the PIERS (all of them), the roads (most of them), the existing green areas that already are poorly maintained. Really there is almost an endless list of higher priorities and age-old problems that remain neglected. Locals are disgusted at the neglect and decay that Zihuatanejo finds itself in under the current city administration. So it is doubly insulting to the great majority of us that this project was built with the money that was destined for a real park much more urgently needed than this embellished walkway beside a drainage canal that oftentimes is described not entirely incorrectly as an open sewer.

Calling the walkway a park is an insult to anyone who's actually seen a real park, IMHO.

We've avoided walking there on our way from La Madera to La Comer for the reasons you list, and have instead walked on the road on the other side of the canal. On our last visit in September we found that road virtually impassible on foot, due to large puddles, dead toads, dogshit and strewn garbage. We reluctantly now walk in the "park".
I can't believe that the population of any town in the US, Canada or Europe would stand for getting screwed by incompetent and corrupt politicians such as seems to be happening down there.