The Consell de Mallorca starts counting vehicles after carrying out a load study

PalmThe Consell will allocate €1.2 million to install 250 cameras in Mallorca (125 license plate readers and 125 surveillance cameras) with the aim of obtaining more data on the origin and type of cars before limiting the number of vehicles on the island. This comes after having already paid a load study which was presented in October 2024 and which states that almost 400,000 vehicles entered Mallorca in 2023. The island councilor for Territory, Mobility and Infrastructure, Fernando Rubio, has justified that the data extracted will allow "a much more detailed load study, with data, and will reassure the sector of It's expensive. who has requested it and it's understandable that they want more specific data."

The installation of cameras at 125 points across the island, to be carried out in the coming months—including ports and secondary roads, among others—responds to a request made by the car rental association (Baleval), which proposed this initiative to obtain a "real" number of cars circulating on the island. Baleval's president, Cristóbal Herrera, has repeatedly emphasized the need for this measure, since, in his opinion, the traffic load study "is only based on estimates." "It makes no sense to establish restrictions based on estimates that have been proven false," he insisted. In addition to the camera installation, Herrera has called on the Consell (Island Council) to strengthen public transport, improve infrastructure, and implement technological solutions to manage the island's traffic before limiting the number of vehicles on Mallorca. He asserted that the congestion problem "is not solved simply by limiting the number of cars." yeast to expensive And this has been demonstrated in Ibiza." Herrera thus considered that "restricting freedom of movement is a mistake and instead of solving problems, it will create more." Rubio, for his part, justified the installation of cameras almost two years after the load study due to the public procurement process. The initiative will be ready by then, although Herrera assured that "the parliamentary process for the proposed law clearly does not allow for any restrictions to be in place this summer."