The line will connect Palma and Llucmajor in 28 minutes and Palma with the airport in 11 minutes
The President of the Government of the Balearic Islands, Margalida Prohens, presented this Thursday the project for the new train line to Llucmajor, whose informative study will be approved in the next few days to begin its public exhibition, after having worked in consensus with the town councils of Palma and Llucmajor.
‘We are talking about a key project for the mobility of Mallorca, a commitment to public transport, to offer alternatives to the private vehicle that will decongest the road network and access to Palma, a project with which we recover the commitment to rail investment in our islands,’ said the President.
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President Prohens presents the project for the train to Llucmajor, which is expected to increase the number of users of the railway network by 76%
The government prioritises this project under its greatest demand, with an estimated 7.5 million passengers per year, which represents an increase of 76% to current train and metro users (9.9 million passengers in 2023). This investment in a 27.45-kilometre line also represents an increase of 32% of the total 86.4 kilometres of the SFM network.
The total budget for the Llucmajor train project has been estimated at 690 million euros, including works, projects, the purchase of new trains and new workshops, and will be reflected in significant amounts in the budget items from 2026 and, above all, in 2027 and subsequent years with the tendering of the works.
Regarding the financing of the project, President Prohens defended the Balearic Islands’ claim to recover a railway agreement with the Spanish Government to receive state funds to expand the railway network, although she also reiterated the commitment to allocate the Autonomous Community’s funds for the implementation of projects for new train lines, prioritising investment according to user demand criteria. ‘And in this prioritisation by demand, the priority project is this train to Llucmajor’, he insisted.
The future line will connect Palma with Llucmajor and Son Sant Joan airport, on a route through different neighbourhoods of Palma and other large population centres and strategic points that generate mobility, such as the Son Llàtzer University Hospital, S’Arenal and the future Palma Exhibition Centre. It is planned to be put into operation with park-and-ride car parks and new connections with EMT bus lines and the TIB network.
Among other data, this train project foresees journeys from Palma to Llucmajor in 28 minutes, to the airport in 11 minutes, from Llucmajor to the airport in 17 minutes, as well as other connections with strategic points such as the Son Llàtzer University Hospital, 6 minutes from Palma and 22 minutes from Llucmajor.
The train’s speed, its capacity to absorb a large number of passengers, as well as being 100% sustainable and accessible to people with disabilities, and the promotion of intermodality in the efficient use of the different means of transport, are some of the issues highlighted by President Prohens during the presentation of the project.
The Mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, and the Mayoress of Llucmajor, Maria Francisca Lascolas, accompanied the President at the presentation ceremony, held at the SFM facilities in Son Rutlan, along with the Councillor of Housing, Territory and Mobility, José Luis Mateo; the Director General of Mobility, Lorena del Valle, and the Manager of SFM, José Ramón Orta.
Future Palma-Llucmajor line
The planned route of the future line will leave Palma from the Son Costa – Son Fortesa station, located in Calle Jacint Verdaguer, the current stop for the train to Inca and Sa Pobla and the metro line to the UIB, which next year will also reach ParcBit. It will serve several areas of Palma and other points along its route, such as Son Oliva, Son Fortesa, Can Capes, Son Gotleu, Es Coll d’en Rabassa, the airport, the Son Oms industrial estate, Es Pil-larí, Bellavista, Ses Cadenes, S’Arenal and the Son Noguera industrial estate, before reaching Llucmajor.
The choice of the Son Costa – Son Fortesa station as the starting point of the new Palma-Llucmajor line has been considered strategic and the most appropriate from a technical point of view due to its location and connection with the current railway network, located two stops from the Intermodal station – three minutes away – and as an alternative that facilitates the possibility of extending the metro to the western districts of the city and the train to Calvià and Andratx in the future.
The Government, the president recalled, is making progress in the processing of the three projects to extend the train network included in the Sectorial Master Plan for Mobility, in force since May 2019, and whose first informative study to be approved is that of the line to Llucmajor (first phase of the Migjorn train, including in the informative study a second phase to Campos). In addition, work continues on the informative studies for the Sa Pobla – Alcúdia and Manacor-Artà projects.
he informative studies for the Sa Pobla – Alcúdia and Manacor-Artà projects.
The new line will have a total length of 27.45 kilometres, of which 7.3 kilometres will be underground and 20.15 kilometres in the open air. The project envisages a first underground section of 2.3 kilometres between the current Son Costa station and Son Güells, where it will come to the surface to complete a route of some 5 kilometres until it goes underground again in a new section between the Mercapalma area and Son Oms, passing through Son Sant Joan, to then continue above ground to Llucmajor.
As for the deadlines, the project for the train to Llucmajor, once the informative study has been initially approved in the next few days, will go on public exhibition for a period of 45 days. Among the most important milestones, the drafting of the projects (basic and works) is expected to be awarded in 2025; by 2026, the approval of the basic project, with a new period of public information, and the environmental impact statement; by 2027, the tender and awarding of the works; and by 2028, the start of the works, which are expected to last four years, with an estimated completion in 2032.