Traffic management in Sliema and Gzira questioned at EP
A parliamentary question on traffic management and urban air quality in Sliema and Gzira has been tabled in the European Parliament by the European Greens.
This was announced during an Alternattiva Demokratika news conference this morning, attended by the general secretary of the European Green Party, Juan Behrend.
AD chairman and MEP candidate Arnold Cassola said the question referred to the degree of unsustainable development in Sliema and Gzira, with particular reference to impact on air quality.
It asked the European Commission to verify whether the Malta Environment and Planning Authority would still authorise further urban development in these already overdeveloped towns in breach of directives.
The Commission was asked to verify whether the Malta Transport Authority, responsible for road networks and traffic management, was carrying its obligations adequately to provide effective urban traffic management and effective control against excessive motor vehicles noxious emissions, to safeguard legitimate rights of the residents’ of Sliema and Gzira to ambient air quality in accordance with EU directives.
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C Hunter
May 27th 2009, 07:02
I dare anyone to walk along Bisazza Street, or, that parallel part of Tower Road and not be poisoned by car fumes and particularly the buses blowing their noxious black fumes. Pity the shop assistants working there, breathing that foul air all day, everyday. The same can be said of Manwel Dimech St and a thousand other streets of Malta.
Joe Morana
May 26th 2009, 19:55
Thank you AD for speaking up in favour of Sliema and Gzira residents' rights and legitimate interests for health and quality of life. MEPA is well aware that Sliema has been overdeveloped years ago and yet it continues to defy sensible town planning logic issuing building permits for mega projects MIDI and Fort Cambridge and now possibly fro Villa Bonici to the detriment of Sliema-Gzira residents' health and quality of life.
Marco Cremona
May 26th 2009, 19:29
Way to go !!
The only reason why we do not have alarming high levels of pollution (i.e. way beyond of what we have today) is that, being a small island, the pollution generated in Malta is easily swept away. If we were a town in a valley surrounded by hills the situation would be much worse.
Nevertheless the localised pollution is significant and it is no coincidence that this country is top of the list of countries with a population suffering respiratory conditions. What good is having a state-of-the-art (unaffordable) hospital - when the solution lies in prevention?