For an island in the Mediterranean, noise was once limited. It was an island that used to have the tag of the island of calm. Santiago Rusiñol, who described Mallorca thus, wouldn’t recognise the island nowadays.
The island of noise
For once, tourism can’t solely be blamed for the mountains’ noise
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Some proper halfwit drives around Palma in the middle of the night in a yellow car that backfires—purposefully modified to do so. He is a fully grown man, often accompanied by another fully grown man. It's not like they are kids, but that mentality is of an infant. The car is quite distinctive so it isn't difficult ... but for Palma's elite police force, it is yet another impossible task to accomplish a simple investigation or pull him over and tell him to put an end to his childish antics or receive a heavy fine. As for the more remote areas of the island, one Sunday in early June (not even peak season) I took a road trip to Deia and the number of bikers — a mix of tourists and locals — was horrifying. Deia's roads were jammed with motorbikes, quad bikes, scooters, dirt bikes, you name it, it was there. With one police officer attempting to direct traffic to clear the jam. The mountain roads in and out of the village were a constant stream of bikers, cyclists and the odd car trying to deal with who, when, where and how to safely overtake. This, alongside excessive traffic on the highways, is an epidemic of private transportation within an island with limited infrastructure and no incentive for people to adapt to an improved public transport system. The island needs the equivalent of a ULEZ or Congestion Charge to reduce the number of vehicles on the roads, with the incentive for EVs either not required to pay or charged at a reduced fee. The island would need to install the infrastructure of EV Charging stations and the CC data system — but that can be contracted to specialist operators. Pair this with an obligation that all new vehicles imported into the island for sale or rental have to be EVs. All rental cars need to be EVs within 36 months. Anyone with a non-EV pays the CC. The technology exists and its implementation would pay for itself within 18 months.