Mallorca Reveals €164m Plan To Improve Mobility

The Consell of Mallorca has announced 13 projects worthy 164 cardinal euros that do not devour land, isolated from for one, aimed astatine improving mobility and reducing postulation jams by astir 25 per cent.

“Some of nan projects, specified arsenic nan entree to nan Can Valero business property and nan Camino de Jesús road, aliases nan 2nd airdrome exit, person already been completed,” nan section authorities said successful a recent statement. The betterment of entree to nan Cintura highway, pinch an further lane connected nan airdrome road and roadworthy reinforcement, arsenic antecedently explained, is scheduled to statesman successful October. The remaining projects are successful nan drafting shape aliases successful nan awarding phase.

In summation to conception I of nan 2nd ringing road, which could statesman successful early 2027, an further lane will beryllium built connected nan Vía de Cintura betwixt nan Inca motorway and nan Valldemossa road.  Roundabouts will beryllium built, and entree will beryllium improved from nan Llucmajor residential areas and nan Son Oms business estate.  Furthermore, entree improvements from nan Andratx motorway to nan Vía de Cintura are planned for 2025. A roundabout will besides beryllium built connected nan Vía de Sóller roadworthy adjacent nan MOT (Spanish conveyance inspection station), among different areas.

Mobility, a Mallorcan pillar

Traffic connected nan Vía de Cintura has been 25 per cent smoother during July and August compared to different years, according to experts from nan Consell de Mallorca. The island’s president, Llorenç Galmés, announced this fig aft nan gathering to footwear disconnected nan caller term, highlighting that roadworthy reinforcement useful and nan summation of a 4th lane betwixt nan Estadi Balear and nan Inca motorway person alleviated postulation jams during nan highest season.

“Mobility will beryllium 1 of nan pillars of nan 2nd half of my term,” Galmés said, according to nan charismatic statement. He besides said, nan “Consell is moving connected a rule to limit conveyance introduction into Mallorca, inspired by nan acquisition of Ibiza and Formentera. A wide governmental and societal statement is being sought truthful that nan rule is not tied to a azygous term.”

The projects are portion of nan Palma Access Plan, 7 of which person already been completed. These see nan zero lane towards nan Can Valero business property and Camino de Jesús, nan caller exit betwixt nan airdrome and Playa de Palma, nan further lane connected nan MA-19 betwixt Son Oms and nan airport, arsenic good arsenic improved entree to Son Hugo and nan Manacor road.

Relieving postulation jams

Currently, useful specified arsenic nan Son Verí Nou roundabout and nan entree roads successful Llucmajor are underway and are expected to beryllium completed by nan extremity of this year. In addition, nan Consell will soon statesman building of nan ITV roundabout connected nan Sóller roadworthy to “relieve a postulation jam,” and nan first phases of Palma’s 2nd ringing roadworthy could commencement successful early 2026.

Another facet that would person influenced nan betterment successful postulation is nan summation successful nan velocity limit connected nan Vía de Cintura from 80 to 100 kilometres per hour, a measurement implemented successful 2023. With this modification, vehicles tin move much perpetually and without unnecessary delays successful nan sections pinch greater capacity, which, together pinch nan widening of lanes, has contributed to reducing density during unreserved hour.