Palma.Residents in Soller and Felanitx want to highlight what they consider to be the injustice of being the only communities in the Balearics having to pay to drive to work. Other people elsewhere in the Islands, said the lobby calling itself Majorca Libre de Peajes (for a toll free Majorca) yesterday, can use motorways without paying a toll. The lobby claims that those who need to use the tunnel are thus at a considerable disadvantage.
A spokesman for Majorca Libre de Peajes confirmed that the first line of protest cars will leave from the Son Angelats industrial estate in Soller at 12pm and the second from Bunyola behind Can Penasso.
The demonstration tomorrow has been planned to coincide with a nationwide protest against the obligation to pay tolls on main roads. The lobby has already pointed out that the Soller tunnel toll is one of the most expensive of its kind in Spain on a price per kilometre ratio. The company managing the Soller tunnel and collecting the toll will be demanding money until June 2022 but the lobby says that by now, more than sufficient money has been recovered to pay for the building of the tunnel.
Residents in Soller and Fornalutx haven't received any subsidies due to them from the Balearic government for the use of the tunnel since September 2010.
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