The Consell de Mallorca will build an additional lane on the Vía de Cintura de Palma between the Inca motorway and the Valldemossa road, with an initial budget of 13 million euros and with the hope that work will begin after the summer of 2025. announced an investment of 110 million euros for the start before the end of the legislature of the first section of the second belt.
The President of the Council of Majorca, Llorenc Galmes, This Monday, he presented a plan to improve access to Palma with a planned investment of 164 million euros for the remainder of the legislature. Galmés presented it at La Misericordia where he gathered the executive councilors to address the institution’s roadmap for the coming months, with mobility as the main axis of action.
“The main challenge facing Mallorca is mobility and The top priority is to reduce traffic jams“achieve greater security and advance sustainable mobility,” Galmés said.
The Palma access improvement project foresees a total of 13 performances focused mainly on entrances and exits, where 80% of incidents and traffic jams are recorded, and some of which are in the drafting phase and others already in execution.
It is also planned to allocate up to 18 million euros in a additional lane on the airport highway between the link between the Son Oms industrial area and the Vía de Cintura. The island institution also plans to invest more than 11 million euros in reinforcing the surface of the Vía de Cintura.
Other more modest actions are the ITV Palma I roundabout (3 million euros), the Son Llàtzer roundabout and communication with the Vía de Cintura (2.8 million euros), improving access from the airport motorway from the Manacor road to the Vía de Cintura and the Molinar interchange (1.4 million), the Son Verí Nou roundabout (1.8 million), improving access to the airport motorway from Cala Blava (1 million euros), an additional lane between the airport link and Playa de Palma (300,000 euros) and improvements to access to the Can Valero industrial estate from the Vía de Cintura (200,000 euros) and to the Camí de Jesús from the Vía de Cintura (300,000 euros).
Llorenç Galmés assured that of all these projects, only one involves the consumption of the territory.
The president of the island, for his part, indicated that he would continue to ask Madrid to recover the 230 million from the road agreement and that with the government, the improvement of public transport will continue to be encouraged so that it constitutes an alternative to the private vehicle.
Regarding the study of the load-bearing capacity of the roads, Galmés explained that the result is not yet available, expected this month or in October.
