When the Council of Mallorca announced the new limit in November, there was a good deal of opposition. Just this past week the Balearic Transport Federation asked for a postponement. Political parties, the Partido Popular in particular, have expressed their scepticism and asked why it is felt necessary to reduce the limit to 80 km/h and not to 100. The PP have called for the limit to be applied only to stretches of the road with the most density of traffic. But these various suggestions and calls have been rejected.
Workers from the Council of Mallorca's roads department will start uncovering the 80 km/h signs at midnight. It is expected that all the signs will have been uncovered by 6am on Monday morning. Tráfico says that there will be monitoring on Monday to observe the level of compliance.
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Already now cars are doing 70-75 km/h out there to be on the safe side, which means the heavy trafic will search for the left side lanes, because they are obviously on a time table. If the socialist government wants to lower the noise from the road they should look for “Sound reducing asphalt” instead of lowering the production efficiency. Best way to protest against this is to take Paseo Maritimo when going from East to West side of Palma.....
90 would have made a lot more sense. I can now drive faster from i.e. the Via Centura to Bunyola (carretera Soller) than on the actual Via Centura. Seems odd.