Hompesch Road needs some trees

I don't know if Grandmaster Hompesch was an environmentalist or a tree hugger, but if he was, he must be turning in his grave right now for no other main artery in Malta is as barren as Hompesch Road, Fgura.

It is nothing short of shocking that in this day and age when everybody seems to be making the environment a national issue, one of the busiest arteries in one of the most polluted, noisy and inhabited areas in Malta is left without a single tree.

The irony of it all is that when we go to other European countries we look in awe at their beautiful, tree-adorned avenues which give cities and towns that much needed "green look". It's time to take action and it's time to protect our health; it's time our parochial local councils stop worrying about the venue of their next coffee morning and start worrying about the environment around us which determines what we, as a country, want to look like.

Make Hompesch Road green and proud.