LLUCMAJOR
T HE ministry of Public Works has announced that the traffic diversion on the s'Arenal to Llucmajor highway, where the new motorway is being built are due to end next week.

At the beginning of the month, the ministry had decided to reroute traffic away from and round the raised structures which are to become interlinking service roads. These works have taken longer than originally planned due to recent heavy rains, but this coming week, traffic will be back on the original road.

In September, in spite of warnings about the limited height under the bridge under construction, a lorry smashed into the scaffolding, trapping two workers.

The ministry claims, however, that the diversion had got nothing to do with claims for increased safety on the work site following the accident.
In spite of the setback, it is also purported that the works are on schedule and will meet the planned completion date in June of next year.
Running parallel to the work on the motorway, a Llucmajor bypass, also under construction, will mean that traffic wanting to reach Campos will no longer have to go through the town centre of Llucmajor.

Ringroad

PORRERES
W ORKS began this week on the construction of the s'Estació ringroad in Porreres, a project which will cost 500'000 euros. The Town Council has taken out a bank loan to finance the project but the money will be paid back over a ten-year period by the Balearic government.

After only the first few days, excavating machines have opened up the road which joins calle Major with the s'Estació area. When complete, the diversion will mean that vehicles coming from Felanitx, Campos and Vilafranca don't have to enter the town centre area of Porreres in order to get through to roads leading to Montuïri and Llucmajor.

Once this project is finished, it will mean that practically all the ringroads planned in the municipality are complete. It only remains to link up the Vilafranca road with the Palma highway.

Dancing

ALGAÏDA
T HE cossiers (performers of an ancient form of Majorcan dancing) are inviting men and women living in Algaïda to come forward if they would like to be considered to become part of this ancestral team.

The group is in need of incorporating new members, nine cossiers and a lady. All those interested will have the chance to sign up this coming December in the local town hall or at the municipal library.

The traditional dances, possibly of pagan origin, are staged three times a year, once on Sant Honorat's day (10 January), and also on 24 and 25 July to celebrate the festival of Sant Jaume. Both are patron saints of Algaïda.

Tomeu Salas, one of the cossiers, explained that “in the event of their being more people signing up than we need, a draw will be made at the town hall on 8 January”.