What is Mallorca going to do about the traffic situation with key roads gridlocked at peak times? The problem is not going to go away and you can’t blame hire cars because the traffic nightmare is ongoing throughout the year when the majority of tourists are long gone. It is easy to blame rent-a-cars. I challenge you to count the number of hire cars around you when you are stuck in traffic. Unless tourists are now renting ‘white vans’ or are coming on holiday by themselves I think you can safely say that this is a home-grown problem.
Four-car families are to blame, not rent-a-cars
Why car rentals aren’t the main cause of traffic in Mallorca
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Hang on Jason, a four car family. It could be mum dad and two grown up children, Which of those are you going to deny owning a car. Or a pensioner couple with a car each and a couple of classics. Either way you can only drive one car at a time. Nowadays the majority who can afford it want a car. Inner city livers not so much. So the problem is population, not how many cars per family. As I keep saying in the arguments about tourism and massification, there are too many people on this island. Hence there are too many cars. And yes that translates to the tourists everyone seems to want. They don't want the old cattle class coach tours. They want their own independent hire car. Less tourists, less hire cars. Simples.
Zoltan Teglas“Magaluf to Palma in the winter is around 20 minutes“ Or on a good day, even less, not that I make the trip very often.
Thank you, hit the nail on the head whatever the anti-tourism knights are claiming. Of course it’s busier in the summer, but the underlying problem is poor infrastructure planning and too many cars. I’ve seen the road between Palmanyola and Festival Park get at least twice as busy over the last years.And that has nothing to do with tourists, although cyclists do not help. It’s mostly work traffic and trucks that started using this road to avoid the Via Cintura and other busy roads.
And all this time we've been led to believe that Mallorca is impoverished because Britons refuse to come here anymore. But then, Brits presumably are so much richer that they can own 4 or 6 cars, yet complain that Mallorca isn't cheap enough for them. And now apparently the impoverished locals here own too many cars. Right, then.
I drove to Pollenca a few days and around 40% of the cars were hire cars. Magaluf to Palma in the winter is around 20 minutes. In the summer 40 mins to an hour. So they're not all hire cars but definitely cars/vans working for hotels.