Cars and traffic travel along the Avinguda de Gabriel Roca (Image: Getty)
Brits travelling to Majorca will be confronted by traffic restrictions until October 2025, as the island’s council has secured new funding to finance infrastruture projects to combat congestion.
Despite being a tiny island, smaller than the Falkland Islands, Majorca has more cars per 1000 people than the United States.
Unsurprisingly, so many cars on such a small area is a for traffic chaos.
Balearics president Marga Prohens said “we cannot normalise” the congestion “suffered by drivers, which are increasingly frequent throughout the road network”.
There are more cars in Majorca per thousand people than in the USA (Image: Getty)
Ms Prohens penned a deal with the president of the Council of Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, on November 11 for the transfer of £25 million to construct new travel infrastructure after 2025.
The agreement contains a list of priority infrastructure projects that the council will need to justify to the regional Government once they have been completed.
It’s not currently clear what the infrastructure projects will be, however local news outlet Mallorca Daily Bulletin reports that the island’s council continues to demand the regional administration renews road agreements that have been in limbo for years.
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People cross the road in Palma (Image: Getty)
Over the past year, the Council of Majorca has conducted several congestion studies, which has won it praise from the regional government.
Palma in particular has been singled out for being particularly blighted by too many cars, with the study noting hotspots in the island’s capital.
All this may solve Majorca’s travel chaos in the future, but until then Brits visiting the islands, as well as locals will have to contend with persistent traffic.