Palma Socialists demand veto tourists the use of public bicycle service (Busturm), which barely use for the logistics problems that entails registering, since the Municipal parking company (SMAP) takes a week to register a user so in practice Visitors who can use it are scarce.
But ignoring this reality, the PSOE has claimed the municipal government of the mayor of the PP, Jaime Martínez, than bustard Prioritize the extension of your service in the neighborhoods before Palma beach “for tourists to use.” Although in the largest tourist area of the Balearic capital (34,000 squares) more than 10,000 pallmes reside, The spokesman for the Socialist Group at the City of PalmaXisco Ducróshas positioned itself against the expansion of the public bicycle service to the beach of Palma.
«First sE has to complete the network in the neighborhoods that they do not have bustard before raising a growth focused on visitors and that neglects residents, ”he stressed.
As the PSOE of Palma has defended in a statement, its proposal is that the bicycle service arrives in Ciudad Jardín, the Coll Den Rabassa, Cala Gamba and Can Pasteilla, but Not that extends along the entire first line.
Before, he has defended training, should extend to neighborhoods such as They are a clade, they are Roca, Verge de Lluc, they are Serra-La Vilata, Sa Indiotia, El Vivero, Gènova, Sant Agustí, Cala Major or are Xigalaamong others. “The mayor does not bet on the neighborhoods of Palma, he only wants infrastructure for tourists,” Ducrós recriminated.
The deputy spokesman of the socialist group in Palma, Frances DalmauHe has argued that if the expansion were thought for the workers who work on Palma Beach, Busturma would first have to reach the neighborhoods in which they live.
«The service is now scarce, with empty stations and lack of bicycles. From here to summer the situation will get worse and collapse While they have stopped bicycles, ”said Dalmau, who has claimed that the service can be used 24 hours a day.
You have to remember that only Since January of this year tourists and not resident in the Balearic capital can make use of Bustommeasure approved by the SMAP Board of Directors with the votes in favor of PP and VOXthe abstention of PSOE and the rejection of the independentistas of Més and Podemos.
In fact, from Més they defend that opening the use of bustard to foreigners supposes Turn it into «an offer of leisure more at the service of massification Tourism », endangers its function as a public service for residents and can generate a collapse of the system in the coming months.
“The opening to tourists turns Bicipalma into another attraction of the massive tourism model we suffer, without considering the impact we will have on those who use the bicycle as a means of daily transport,” said the councilor Miquel àngel Contreras.
Until last winter, only those registered in Palma could use a service of which in addition to tourists, residents of other municipalities in Mallorca and Balearic Islands can use.
