The Minister of Territory, Mobility and Infrastructures, Fernando Rubio, received Margalida Maria Ramis on behalf of the GOB and Margalida Rosselló of the Plataforma Antiautopista (Anti-highway Platform)

The Consell de Mallorca continues its round of meetings to gather suggestions and contributions to draw up the load study, which will be published in September with reliable and contrasted data on the situation of Mallorca’s road network and possible solutions to reduce its saturation. Fernando Rubio, Minister of Territory, Mobility and Infrastructures, received the most representative environmental organisations in Mallorca, such as the GOB and the Anti-highway Platform, to listen to their contributions.

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The Consell de Mallorca meets with environmental organisations to gather contributions to the load study

Margalida Maria Ramis, representing the GOB, and Margalida Rosselló of the Plataforma Antiautopista were received by councillor Rubio, who was accompanied by the island’s director of Infrastructures and ITV, Rafel Gelabert.

Fernando Rubio explained that the Department of Mobility and Infrastructures is working on a study of the load on the roads, a document that until now has never been carried out in Mallorca to find out, with official and contrasted data, the causes of the traffic jams on the Mallorcan road network. For this reason, it has been decided to wait to begin the study once the most up-to-date data has been compiled, that of the year 2023 from the Port Authority, the Government, the Directorate General of Traffic and the Consell itself.

Rubio reiterated that the cargo study, which will be finished in September, will also propose solutions, both in terms of infrastructures and possible regulations, and that the Consell is “willing to take courageous measures and if it has to be regulated, it will be regulated” to improve the mobility of Mallorcans.

The GOB and the Plataforma Antiautopista demanded that the Consell assume the competencies in transport matters to be able to act on public transport in Mallorca. They also demanded that the pressure of vehicles be reduced by reducing the number of vehicles and that the measures taken be coordinated with the mobility plans of the municipalities and in a comprehensive manner for the whole island.

The meeting with the environmental organisations is the fourth meeting that the Consell de Mallorca has held to report on the work of the load study. The first meeting was with the Transport Business Federation, then with the hire car employers’ associations, the Hotel Federation of Mallorca, and now with GOB and the Anti-highway Platform.