Soller in the spotlight: Donkeys, parking dramas, and shuttle bus dreams
What's buzzing in Soller this week
Traffic and parking has become complicated during the summer months in Soller. | LL. G.
Soller14/03/2025 14:44
Soller has hit the UK headlines this past week. A whole page in the Times Newspaper and lots of column inches in other papers and on their websites. The story is all about the proposed parking changes to the centre of Soller. The fact that ‘Soller’ is a name known to so many is remarkable in itself. A town in Mallorca with approximately 13,000 residents would not normally expect so much notoriety. I think we have a few local second homeowners who are journalists for UK media outlets, and they have told our story. Is this a good or bad thing being the question?
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And yet it seems Fornalutx residents and property owners are also excluded, even from the peripheral roads of the ZBE, meaning a 20km round trip on the mountain road just to pop into the shops, none of which (BIP, SPAR, Eroski etc.), despite private parking, can now be driven to. There is not even anywhere to park and walk from on the west side of Soller, and in my case, even shopping in the Cooperativa on a Saturday is out. The weekend one-way system in Biniaraix required to return to my (Fornalutx) address necessitates entering the ZBE at Sa Creu, illegally!