Through European funds (Next Generation), the Ibiza City Council intends to provide the city with three new bike lanes by 2023, as highlighted yesterday by the mayor, Rafa Ruiz, and the deputy mayor Aitor Morrás will allow you to ride your bike on a separate bike lane from Platja d’en Bossa to es Botafoc. With a budget of almost 900,000 euros a bike lane will be built on the first ring road, from ses Figueretes to the fairgrounds.

Despite the fact that the reform project of the first ring road includes a bike lane, which will not be the same as this latest announcement, Morrás explained the need to install this bicycle lane now because the remodeling of this road will take years.

Another bike lane is also planned between the promenade and the entrance to calle sa Llavenera (access to Jesús), the boundary of the municipality with Santa Eulària, at a cost of just over 567,000 euros. Finally, the third bike lane (almost 71,000 euros) will connect Calle Extremadura with Bulevar Abel Matutes and Avenida isidor Macabich. This lane will run along the roadway.

Bike lanes and bicycle rental service planned

In addition, Vila intends to launch a bicycle rental service (Eivibicing) next year, with a budget of 1.5 million euros. This project, with a cost of 2.7 million, will be developed over four years.

The 2023 budget

The mayor of Ibiza, Rafa Ruiz, yesterday stressed in the presentation of the last municipal budget of this term, that 2023 will be “a decisive year” in terms of the capital of Vila with the start of the works of the Mercat Vell and sa Peixateria (three million euros) and the new football stadium, Es Putxet (3.9 million), in the neighborhood of Ca n’Escandell, with funds from the Autonomous Community and the Consell to compensate for the burdens suffered by the city as the capital of the island. However, the government team leaves parked, and remains outside the budget, the construction of the Casa de la Música, whose tender has been deserted twice.

El Interior Del Mercat Vell, A Los Pies De Las Murallas De Vila.The interior of the Mercat Vell, at the foot of the walls of Vila. Vicent Mari

Vila’s proposed budget for 2023 amounts to a total of 76.7 million euros the highest in history and 2.3% more than the current year, as explained Rafa Ruiz at a press conference accompanied by the deputy mayor Aitor Morrás and the councilor of Finance, Estefania Torres . In any case, it is already planned to add six million more from carryover y seven million from capital funds for the last two fiscal years, totaling almost 90 million euros.

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