<![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - traffic jams]]> 10 <![CDATA[The big promise to end traffic jams in Mallorca remains shelved.]]>

Traffic jams on Palma's ring road, in the Genoa tunnel, and queues on Mallorca's main roads have become a common sight, especially during peak season. "Investing in Mallorca" was one of the major campaign promises of the President of the Council of Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés. Halfway through his term, Galmés proclaimed that his government had fulfilled "more than 80% of its roadmap." But this major campaign promise has yet to be delivered, and the countdown to the next elections has begun.

]]> <![CDATA[In the Mallorca Council, he dispensed with Vox]]> Having achieved the important victory of eliminating the bus/hoist lane, like a knight slaying a dragon, the president of the Mallorca Council discovered that the task of defunding the island, as he had promised, was not so simple. The problem went a little deeper than simply eliminating a simple signage that only served (and continues to serve, as European cities with hoist lanes or equivalents know, regardless of left-wing or right-wing governments) to calm traffic in sections that are usually too congested. That was all there was to it, but we live in a time when political polarization can even exacerbate debate on purely technical issues.

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