The president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, and the government’s councillor of Tourism, Culture and Sports, Jaume Bauzà, have opened the new bicycle and pedestrian lane, which has a total budget of 3.7 million euros.

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Binissalem, Lloseta and Inca will be connected with a new civic road financed with 2 million euros from the Sustainable Tourism Tax

The new civic road linking the municipalities of Binissalem, Lloseta and Inca is now a reality. Today, the president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, inaugurated this infrastructure, which is one of the star projects of the Plan de Vials Cívics (Civic Roads Plan) to promote sustainable mobility in Mallorca promoted by the island’s institution. The pedestrian and bicycle lane inaugurated today has a budget of 3.7 million euros and a length of three kilometres.

The inauguration ceremony was attended by the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the Government, Jaume Bauzà, as the project was financed with two million euros by the Sustainable Tourism Tax (ITS). The rest of the cost of the work to reach the 3.7 million, as well as the execution of the infrastructure, has been paid for by the Consell de Mallorca. The Commission for the Promotion of Tourism considered that the civic road project between Inca, Lloseta and Binissalem promotes ‘mobility and sustainable tourism, contributes to the depersonalization and the creation of tourist products that can be practised in the low season’. Galmés and Bauzà unveiled a plaque commemorating the inauguration. During the ceremony they were accompanied by the island councillor for Territory, Mobility and Infrastructures, Fernando Rubio, and the mayors and councillors of the three municipalities through which the infrastructure runs.

President Llorenç Galmés stressed that ‘this is a project that was started and completed during this legislature, demonstrating our clear commitment to sustainable mobility from the first moment we arrived at the Consell de Mallorca’. Galmés added: ‘Today is an important day for the municipalities of Binissalem, Lloseta and Inca, as they will be better connected with this road for cyclists and pedestrians. This is one of the key projects of our Civic Roads Plan, which has a budget of 45 million and will involve more than 60 kilometres of civic routes between the municipalities of Mallorca. A project co-financed by the Sustainable Tourism Tax and the Consell de Mallorca that represents a very important improvement for the Raiguer region’.

President Llorenç Galmés also announced that work will begin during the first quarter of next year on the civic road between Inca and the hospital to ensure the safety of users who must now travel along it.

For his part, councillor Jaume Bauzà explained that ‘the Sustainable Tourism Tax aims to ensure that what is collected has a direct impact on the people of our islands. This civic road project is a clear example of improving infrastructures for the benefit of citizens and it contributes to the deseasonalisation of tourism with a tourist product that can be practised in the low season, such as cycle tourism.

Description of the civic road between Binissalem, Lloseta and Inca

The work consists of constructing a civic promenade that joins the road built as part of the works on the Lloseta link from the Ma-13 (motorway) to the town of Inca. The starting point of the new promenade is located on the north side of the Ma-13 A road, near the area known as the Mallorca Forum building. From here, a road is built with similar characteristics to the one that was built before, with 2.50 metres of free width of concrete paving, physical separation from the road with a mixed steel-wood barrier, 75 cm berms, and replacement of side closures. At kilometre point 0.3 of the new road, a 20-metre-long wooden footbridge has been installed to cross the Aumadrà stream.

Inca Hospital Civic Road

The Inca hospital currently has no direct access from the town centre for pedestrians, who must walk along the narrow Llubí street, an itinerary shared with vehicles, which can generate dangerous situations for pedestrians and bicycles that circulate along it to reach the hospital. The adjudication of this work was halted in 2021 due to deficiencies that have now been resolved. Construction is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2025. It has a length of about 800 metres and a budget of 500,000 euros.