The new motorways will eat up 20 million m2

The Balearic Councillor for Public Works, Homes and Transport of the Balearic Government, Mabel Cabrer, and the executive councillor for Public Works of the Mallorcan Council, Antoni Pascual, signed last week the protocol that establishes the general framework of action to be taken by both entities to do with roads and lanes on Mallorca. This financial agreement will mean modifying the Road Plan for Mallorca, a proposal that will be presented next October 6 for its approval in the Full Council Meeting for Mallorca. Carrying out the new Road Plan will represent the construction of the motorway Inca-Manacor, that will pass via Sieneu and Petra, the third lane of the Motorway Palma-Inca, the improvement to the road Sa Pobla-Alcudia, the second ring road for Palma, the interring of part of the Paseo Marítimo in Palma, and the extension to the Poniente motorway as far as Peguera and that of Levante as far as Campos, amongst others.

According to the GOB, in this press release, the new motorway projects will cause fierce aggression to the Mallorcan countryside as they will eat up 20 million m2 of territory. Also, the ecologists think that carrying out these public works will imply the expropriation of some 4,000 private property, will favour private transport, will promote the consumption of combustible fossils, will diminish the permeability of the land and will cause a great scenic and social impact. The GOB think that the proposal of 524 million euros for the project is too high and that Mallorca has other priorities in education, health, residues, water supply and public transport. Finally, the ecologists demand an Integral Plan for Transport, as a prior step to develop any plan of road infrastructure.

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Date of publication: 16/09/2003

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