The GOB rejects the project to
widen the road from the UIB (21/3/2000)
The president of the GOB, Joan Rita, has presented
a document to the local Minister of Public Works, in which he
expresses in representation of the Balearic ecological group,
their opposition to the project to widen the university road,
alleging that it is almost the same project that had been rejected
previously. The main reasons for the opposition to the project
are an exaggerated consumption of territory, the negative impact
on the scenery, on the architectural heritage of the area and
on the structure of property; and the elevated cost of the project
that according to them, does not resolve the traffic problem to
the UIB and only favours private transport and contaminators.
The ecological group proposes as a solution, the reformation and
widening of the present road, improvement and promotion of the
use of collective transport, the creation of a bicycle lane and
to carry out campaigns amongst the students to promote these means
of transport.