"It made no sense to build another access to the C-32 in Canet, if there was already one a little further on," says Mercè Girona, spokesperson for the Canet de Mar Environmental Emergency Coordinator (CEAC). This week, the environmentalist residents of CEAC, Preservem el Maresme, and Unió de Pagesos received the news they had long awaited: the new access to the C-32 in Canet de Mar will not go ahead after all. After years of neighborhood mobilizations and a substantial list of objections, the Balearic Government has decided to back down and has removed this infrastructure project from the package of works that will soon be put out to tender, which includes plans for five other new access points to the highway in the Maresme region. "We had a meeting in September where they already told us, but we waited for them to make it official with the town councils as well," explains Girona. Now, the final step remains: for the decision to be put in writing. "This will be around Christmas, when the resolutions regarding the appeals we've filed are published," the neighborhood spokesperson explained. "They assured us that access "The Canet project has declined and will not be awarded or budgeted," he confirms. For its part, the Government says it is not completely ruling out the project, but rather that it will be "re-examined," and assures that it could be resumed in the future if the local councils act. "All the municipalities would have to agree, which we believe will not happen, and we would have to start from scratch to find new funding," explains Girona, who considers this option practically ruled out.

Albert Pijuan She has turned 40 in top creative form: she has won the Crexells Prize with her latest novel, The Great Replacement (Ángulo, 2024); has co-written, with Victoria Szpunberg, one of the theatrical sensations of the season, The third escape, which premiered at the TNC, and is currently working on two other stage productions, the adaptation of Permagel, ofEva Baltasarand a story set in a restaurant. This fall, she also just presented In the middle lane (The Second Periphery, 2025), a "unique, foundational, and radical piece of political-road essay," as can be read on the back cover of the volume, or also a funny and extreme textual proposal narrated by Felip Roda, a village eccentric who aspires to get Catalan drivers to reduce their speed for martyrological purposes.

With the arrival of summer, the roads are busier than ever. From short domestic trips to tourists who believe us without stopping. The inevitable result is lost hours spent stuck in traffic on the country's main roads. Given this situation, the debate has reopened: who pays for the roads?

You're wearing a corporate-colored cap and, underneath, a bandana, as if you were part of Franco's Moorish Guard. Your clothes are a frog, also corporate. On your feet, boots. Not even flip-flops. You're on the road, on this curve, with the tool in your hand.