What's best for Gozo (1)

As a Maltese who crosses to Gozo four to five times a week for work, I can honestly sympathise with the calls by Gozitans for a bridge to be built.

Alex Caruana Carabez's (January 25) suggestion that all those Gozitans who find daily crossing a problem should relocate to Malta is an insult to everyone's intelligence. Before speaking up this gentleman should relocate himself from St Julians to Gozo and cross over to Malta every morning, returning around 6 and 7 p.m. day-in day-out.

Only then would he experience the delights of the weather, usual delays and sometimes Neptune's fury. Only then would he perhaps start to have an inkling of how taxing this is on the people who have no option but to do this. Perhaps after a couple of years he will consider joining those who (borrowing his own quote) "inject themselves to feel better". Mr Carabez suggested that a bridge would spell the destruction of Gozo in terms of construction.

It would not be a bridge that would transform Gozo into a Bugibba or Qawra but whether the Malta Environment and Planning Authority sanctions such a transformation. Either Mr Carabez has not been to Gozo in years or he should realise that this change is happening irrespective of the bridge issue. Take Newport, RI or Isle of Skye in Scotland, for example. A bridge did not spell ruin for these islands; much to the contrary.

Finally a certain political propaganda machine has been using the slogan biex inti tghix ahjar (so that you will live better). If the people who devised this slogan really practice what they preach, than it's about time that Gozitan workers and people in general are provided with a bridge to the mainland.