Llucmajor-Campos road "the highway of shame"

These views were made clear on Monday at the opening of the road. The president of the Council of Mallorca, Catalina Cladera, was accompanied by local mayors. Protesters were aggrieved at what they felt were Council lies about the scale of the project and the road's accident rate having been used as justification for financing the building of the road without a single euro of this financing having come from the roads' agreement with the Spanish government.

They maintain that the road represents the destruction of land, an unsustainable model of growth and the obsolescence of a model of transport based on private cars. Eight kilometres of highway have meant the loss of 54 hectares of rustic land.

When the project was first announced, the group described it as a motorway and so it continues to criticise the Council for calling it a dual carriageway, "when today it is clear that it is a six-lane motorway".

They attacked President Armengol for "never having wanted a meeting" to discuss the road and highlighted the fact that the Council's councillor for infrastructure, Ivan Sevillano, was absent from the inauguration. They interpreted this as his attempt "to hide".