Eight entities linked to mobility, trains, cycling, and territory defense have questioned the second Palma beltway project, presented this week by the Council of Mallorca with a projected investment of 350 million euros. GOB, the Train Users Association, Vianants Mallorca, Terraferida, Friends of the Earth, Anti-Highway Platform, Maria Poble Petit Platform, and Sineu en Bici i a Peu consider that the action does not respond to the mobility needs of a large part of the island.

Plaça del Fossar in Sineu, November 2003. Thousands of people watch the satirical performance of the wedding between Maria Antònia Munar and Jaume Matas, a symbol of the political alliance that drives an unprecedented transformation of Mallorca's road network. Munar's Council road plan projects an island turned into a giant Scalextric and ignites one of the most intense periods of social mobilization in recent history. Sineu becomes the epicenter of the opposition to the Inca-Manacor motorway, an infrastructure that threatens to mutilate the Pla region. At the same time, another slogan begins to be heard: 'No to the second beltway'.

The presentation a few days ago of the new section of Palma's second ring road recalled, as ARABalears explains, those times indelible in our memory of the “Majorcan-style roads” of Maria Antònia Munar. Works presented with good canapés, marquees and, above all, a lot of nerve. Because they intended to make citizens believe that laying more asphalt was solving mobility.

The opposition parties in the Council of Mallorca, the PSIB-PSOE and MÉS per Mallorca, harshly criticize the project for phase I of the second ring road made public this Wednesday. The Council of Mallorca announced in 2024 an initial project for phase I of the second ring road in Palma valued at 110 million euros. The president of the island institution, Llorenç Galmés, appeared this Wednesday accompanied by the president of the Government and the mayor of Palma to present the definitive project, which has been budgeted at 350 million euros.

A new road –the first section of the second ring road– is the Mallorca Council's recipe to alleviate the traffic collapse suffered by the access routes to Palma. It is an action “of great social consensus”, according to the island institution, with a projected cost of 350 million euros that must continue the dual carriageway of the Ma-30 between the Manacor road and the Llucmajor motorway. The project has gained in ambition, budget, and execution time compared to what Galmés himself presented in the year 2024. The works will be divided into two phases, valued respectively at 90 and 260 million euros, and the Council plans to execute them partially simultaneously to reduce their total duration, which between the two phases adds up to six years and two months of work. The president of the Council, Llorenç Galmés, announced this Wednesday that the first phase will begin to be executed before the end of the year, while the technical managers have set the start of the works in 2027, once the processing and the public information period have been completed.

A man has died and another has been seriously injured in a traffic accident between two cars that occurred on Tuesday morning on Palma's second ring road.

The Council of Mallorca has modified the project of the first section of the second Palma beltway with the aim of "facilitating the construction" of the future train that will run from Palma to Llucmajor, according to the Director General of Infrastructure and Technical Vehicle Inspection, Rafel Gelabert. The island institution will build a 15-meter-wide underpass beneath the underground tunnel that will provide access to Son Ferriol from the motorway to the airport.