According to The Bible God it took seven days to build the world. Francina Armengol intends to imitate him and has the entire island turned upside down, frightened by the proximity of the May elections. Haste, however, is a bad adviser. And more when you’ve passed eight years touching your belly and allocating its own resources to promoting Catalan and feeding a clientelist network that devours taxes of the Balearic middle class without ever being satisfied.
It was not necessary to build the Paseo Marítimo nor, of course, does the city need any tram. On the other hand, what was essential, not just in this legislature, but even in the previous one, was to finish the second ring road that would alleviate a circulation that is a true hell, not in summer, which could be understood by the large number of tourists that there is on the island, but in any month of the year. Entering the Vía de Cintura any January afternoon is enough to understand the magnitude of a problem that Armengol has buried his head in the sand, like a common ostrich. The data is tremendous: neither has been approved nor, of course, has any road project been executed in this legislature. The money is for the Catalan, not for the roads.
The works on the Paseo Marítimo have only just begun and are already a nightmare for the thousands of drivers who every day have no other alternative than to cross it to access the motorway to Andratx. This week the entire right track has been made useless and the left has been turned into a two-way lane. Of course traffic jams are the order of the day, but things are only going to get worse. For some businesses, in fact, this movement has meant -or will do so in the immediate term- the definitive closure.
today the College of Engineers of Roads, Canals and Ports has presented a report on the forecast, completion and improvement of the infrastructures of the Balearic Islands, in which it emphasizes that the current infrastructures are “obviously” insufficientin addition to insisting on the importance of the second belt, something that it does not enter either the plains of Armengol or its dolphin Catalina Cladera.
Imagining what the Paseo Marítimo will be like in summer makes your hair stand on endbut those drivers who believe they have entered hell only have to choose the Vía de Cintura the next day to realize that they have gone from fire to embers. Chaos is served by the work and grace of Armengol and socialism. Tic tac, tic tac…
