Overcrowded but not due to tourists
Who’s truly at fault?
What are we going to do? Build more roads, add more lanes to existing ones or try and push the car off the road? These are the options and something needs to be done. A car journey from Santa Ponsa to Palma took 50 minutes this week because of gridlock on the motorway and then along the Paseo Maritimo in Palma....and the summer season hasn’t started yet.
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Joe Miles50,000 families in the past 6 years alone , majority North African, competing for local services, education, social services, government housing, health services, policing and public resources and roads!
Ulla JacksonI agree with you. My comment was only intended to address Jason's question as to why families with more than one car don't get taxed more - which they do. The rest of my comment was just to prove a point.
Joe MilesI doubt many of these people do use cars going to work, but I might be wrong.
Johnny COf course you pay tax on all your cars, just as you would do in any country wether you use them or not. What has a singled household to do with it? The problem is too many cars on the roads and many households do use two cars everyday at the busiest time when most are going to work. Where you park them was not part of the problem, only too many cars at any given time. I guess if you couldn't park them on your property, most likely you would not have three cars and a motorbike.
Everyone is forgetting the elephant in the room ,there are tens of thousands of North African and South American workers who came to do the jobs that the locals didn’t want.they all needed a roof over their heads.
So the fact that the hotels start opening at this time of the year is irrelevant? And when the hotels are closed in the winter the roads are quieter? Where do you think all the extra vehicles on the road are going/have been? Nothing to do with tourism/hotels of course, all those extra vehicles just appeared out of nowhere.
Don't build - deport.
Jason, you ask why don’t they tax families who have more than one vehicle? They do. Every vehicle pays the 'impost vehicles tracció mecànica'. Its' not a tax levied per household, but per vehicle. At the moment I happen to have 3 cars and a motorbike; I pay road tax on each one whilst there is never more than one using the roads at any given time. I'm contributing more than a single vehicle household does. And, no, they are not taking up valuable parking spaces on the road either, I am lucky enough to have space to park them all on my property.