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I had heard a couple of years ago a new road to the airport was going to be built. This morning after breakfast, a friend of ours that is in sales at the Grand said that heavy equipment had been brought in to work on the road from La Ropa to the airport. The road had been on hold and now looks like they are starting on it and it will be built. The road will save time between La Ropa and the airport.

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carfares from la ropa now cheaper to airport as well, bwahahaha

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I had heard a couple of years ago a new road to the airport was going to be built. This morning after breakfast, a friend of ours that is in sales at the Grand said that heavy equipment had been brought in to work on the road from La Ropa to the airport. The road had been on hold and now looks like they are starting on it and it will be built. The road will save time between La Ropa and the airport.

Yeah, now visitors won't even have to see the real town. They can imagine it looks like the images they saw on the travel agency's website. And the burglars love the new road, too. They can't wait to be able to use it instead of the footpaths they've been using all these years.

Oh, and the construction company that got the nice state contract is owned by a local politician who also made out like a bandit in the previous municipal administration.

Yessirree! We're all just tickled pink over his new road. Just one big happy affair! :hitfan:

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How much time will it actually save? I do not mind the drive from the airport, the views of the city and the friendly conversation with the driver.This is especially helpful for the first time visitor. They get to see that there is far more for their vacation than a beach. Sometimes progress? can be too much.

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... as it is known as by the La Ropa walkers who frequent it every morning. I know one of the engineers working on the new road and he reckons it should be finished this year. Mind you he also said the same thing 2 years ago but at least they are woking on it now. Despite Rob's comments and Mexican reality check there will be some fabulous views taking in Playa Larga right down to the airport and Barra de Potosi.

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... as it is known as by the La Ropa walkers who frequent it every morning. I know one of the engineers working on the new road and he reckons it should be finished this year. Mind you he also said the same thing 2 years ago but at least they are woking on it now. Despite Rob's comments and Mexican reality check there will be some fabulous views taking in Playa Larga right down to the airport and Barra de Potosi.

Those views will be great until the high-rise condos and hotels block them. This road is part of the local crooked politicians' package to spur the development of a megaproject called "Punta Garrobo". Even though it will make access easier to some land we own in the area and thus increase its value, we would rather see this entire peninsula set aside as a protected park or ecological zone. We think the view is much prettier from a footpath looking through the vegetation than from a paved road overlooking cleared lots. Don't you?

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You might be right Rob, but gee they started that project a long time ago and the mansion they built is in ruins. Did they not originally own the land adjacent to the airport at one time? I'm not sure there are enough customers willing to buy. There are still tons of lots in Cerro del Vigia, with the ability to build condos or houses and Monte Christo is mostly vacant. These two locations make for wonderful city views in the evening, while punta garrobo you would just be staring into the dark. They are probably just satisfying bankers by moving a little dirt.
I do like the road the way it is, gives great access to Manzanillo and snorkling, while providing a super walking route. That donkey that lives there is gonna be pissed.

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I do like the road the way it is, gives great access to Manzanillo and snorkling, while providing a super walking route. That donkey that lives there is gonna be pissed.

Curbarn, after you reach the end of the pavement, how do you proceed to Playa Manzanillo? I've seen a small square structure a bit south(?) or east (?) of where the pavement ends. Does the trail to the beach begin there?

Oh and speaking of the donkey along the road, last March I saw that donkey come charging out of the underbrush by the roadside, running as if trying to escape some beast that was bound to eat it. The poor thing didn't even notice me as it charged right past me, not slowing down at all for about 200 meters or so!

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when you get to that structure just keep walking straight eventually you go down and toward the beach. you can see the trail on google maps and you can use google maps on an iphone or other phone to pinpoint your location. i went a lot last yearits quite a long trip, so i started driving to the top of the hill.

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when you get to that structure just keep walking straight eventually you go down and toward the beach. you can see the trail on google maps and you can use google maps on an iphone or other phone to pinpoint your location. i went a lot last yearits quite a long trip, so i started driving to the top of the hill.

A long trip? I can walk from Rossy's to Playa Manzanillo in about a half an hour, maybe closer to 40 minutes, though I've made it in 20. Getting there is most of the fun!

But now thanks to corrupt myopic politicians we have a new road and soon it will be full of garbage and squatters and devoid of wildlife. This is what OBSCENITY and RAPE OF THE LAND looks like.

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when you get to that structure just keep walking straight eventually you go down and toward the beach. you can see the trail on google maps and you can use google maps on an iphone or other phone to pinpoint your location. i went a lot last yearits quite a long trip, so i started driving to the top of the hill.

A long trip? I can walk from Rossy's to Playa Manzanillo in about a half an hour, maybe closer to 40 minutes, though I've made it in 20. Getting there is most of the fun!

Thanks to da both of ya!
I'll be checking it out in about 3 weeks.
(I already hear the Talking Heads' song playing in my mind…)
Anyone care to join me on a walk?

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> Those views will be great until the high-rise condos and hotels block them. This road is part of the local crooked politicians' package to spur the development of a megaproject called "Punta Garrobo". Even though it will make access easier to some land we own in the area and thus increase its value, we would rather see this entire peninsula set aside as a protected park or ecological zone. We think the view is much prettier from a footpath looking through the vegetation than from a paved road overlooking cleared lots. Don't you?

Actually Rob that doesn't work either because without maintenance the weeds grow so high it blocks the view. There used to be a nice vista though to La Ropa on the way up the road but it is overgrown to the point where you can't see past the weeds. I agree a park would be nice but you would have to drive there, eliminating a lot of the local population. The only practical way is to develop the area so that it will be maintained. Perhaps those nice politicians (you don't have to use the word "crooked" by now we all realize that word is synonymous no matter what country you live in) could arrange for a park as part of the development which would bring much needed work to the construction trades.

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Actually Rob that doesn't work either because without maintenance the weeds grow so high it blocks the view. There used to be a nice vista though to La Ropa on the way up the road but it is overgrown to the point where you can't see past the weeds. I agree a park would be nice but you would have to drive there, eliminating a lot of the local population. The only practical way is to develop the area so that it will be maintained. Perhaps those nice politicians (you don't have to use the word "crooked" by now we all realize that word is synonymous no matter what country you live in) could arrange for a park as part of the development which would bring much needed work to the construction trades.

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. My favorite views of the bay are from each undeveloped hilltop after walking a path up to it, weeds and all, often after walking from one side of the bay where I lived to the other, sometimes more than once a day. Nature is irreplaceable, and I have yet to see any good development where concrete was involved. Current La Ropa condo dwellers down there among the huerta de cocos have no idea the land they live on was once wetland, much of it inhabited by crocs. Personally I prefer the crocs for neighbors than the condo commandos. But to each their own.

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"Florida can never really come to grips with saving the environment because a very large percentage of the population at any given time just got there. So why should they fight to turn the clock back? It looks great to them the way it is. Two years later, as they are beginning to feel uneasy, a few thousand more people are just discovering it all for the first time and wouldn't change a thing. And meanwhile the people who knew what it was like twenty years ago are an ever-dwindling minority, a voice too faint to be heard."
"The Empty Copper Sea" (1978) John D. MacDonald

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"I get the feeling that this is the last time in history when the offbeats like me will have a chance to live free in the nooks and crannies of the huge and rigid structure of an increasingly codified society. Fifty years from now I would be hunted down in the street. They would drill little holes in my skull and make me sensible and reliable and adjusted."
Travis McGee from "The Quick Red Fox" (1964) John D. MacDonald

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And SO agree

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Personally I prefer the crocs for neighbors than the condo commandos. But to each their own.

I'm guessing a good percentage of your contributors are condo owners others condo renters. Although they maybe "crocks" they have a nasty bite!

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And where will the Chakalakas(sp)go?

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And where will the Chakalakas(sp)go?

Chichilaca is the lesser known twin brother of the noisiest bird on the planet, probably just as ugly and hangs around the trees on the golf course, hence the Chichi. Thanks for asking.

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Corruption is bad ever where, by us some construction companies got caught agreeing on the bids for certain contracts. The bids were rigged on who would win the contract. It may not be as open at home. Any time there is money involved someone wants to get a extra share. Everyone knows in most cases the Good Old Boys group always wins out.

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New Year's Eve, when there was a fire on the road to La Ropa, it would have been nice to have a road to the airport, so, that for safety's sake, people would have been able to escape if things had gotten worse???????

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New Year's Eve, when there was a fire on the road to La Ropa, it would have been nice to have a road to the airport, so, that for safety's sake, people would have been able to escape if things had gotten worse???????

Escape? The main problem on the La Ropa road during the fire according to the firefighters were the lookey-loos. In my wife's entire lifetime here there has never been any need whatsoever to "escape" from La Ropa. Al contrario. La Ropa is a place to escape TO.

There are many places where we need new roads. La Ropa just wasn't one of them. The road wasn't built for anyone's convenience except the crooked politicians hoping for some kickback money from the paving contract itself and especially from the billionaire developer they are conniving with.

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au contraire La ropa definitely needs at least road repairs, speed bumps up to amuleto just past the turn off to south la ropa.

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