Extensive road works in Marsalforn

John Portelli

Jan 9th 2010, 21:18

When is residential Ramla road at Nadur going to be tarmacked. It was promised in the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and 2000, now we begin a new decade and still no tarmac. On top of it, we have Chris Side who live on the same road as well as architects, still no tarmac. What does it take to have this Ramla Road tarmacked. Poor Ramla Road and it's people. And where is the Gozo Ministry headed by a Nadurina.

A. Grech

Jan 9th 2010, 17:31

AND POOR OLD XLENDI ROAD....WHEN?

Alfred Fenech

Jan 9th 2010, 15:40

I agree with Mr Mifsud Bonnici. I too live on Qbajjar road and the damage to cars whilst parking is incredible. One house "Sea Shells" has a step ON THE ROAd to reach the pavement because it is so high. A number of drivers are caught out by this step and they cause damage to their wheeels. Then their doors get caught by the high pavement. Such steps are definately illegal and should be removed. Then there are the steps on the pavements that block half the pavement so ladies with pushchairs must go onto the middle of the road to walk by these steps.

Joe Morana

Jan 9th 2010, 14:49

@ Peadar Farrell - Your observation is right on the money (pun intended)!

Franco Tabone

Jan 9th 2010, 14:44

Well done for repairing roads in Gozo. I hope from 170 roads being repaired there is more than one road being repaired in Gozo. I wish and hope the next one will be Triq il-Kapuccini (the main road from Victoria to Marsalforn). It has been years neglected by every Mayor and nobody do anything. From the cross roads till the church of Kapuccini the road is simply just terrible to drive from and especially for the pedastrain's. If it remains like this maybe they should change at least change the name to Triq it-Tarag.

Mark Xerri

Jan 9th 2010, 14:35

I am not sure which streets are intended to be rebuilt but currently the stretch along the valley up to the parking is being done. The article didn't mention that to rebuild this 70m stretch of street the water service was suspended around 8 times in the last 4 days and work is only half done - EU standard! I agree that this stretch of street did not have the worse surface and there other streets which need more urgent attention! Is the Zebbug council going to leave the street unfinished as the one at Qbajjar? Why not complete unfinished work first?

John Azzopardi

Jan 9th 2010, 14:20

When is Ramla Road in the residential side leading to Ramla Bay and the road portion as the bottom on the Xaghar road going to be fixed. Those are the roads that require immediate attention as they are a real disaster. Thousands of tourist and maltese/gozitans pass through them and they must wonder who is running Malta. As for Masalforn, it's nothing more than a big building jungle of little value except for the few in the summer time. Hate to say it that way, but I am sure foreign tourist do not visit a country to look at it's building blocks of flats/appartments. Hope I am wrong, but I know I am not.

L Barbara

Jan 9th 2010, 14:07

It will all be a waste of time if roads are then dug up and left with a shabby fill in or no fill in at all, as the did at ta alla ommu a deep trench across the road for the last week and no sign of it being filled in!

Patrick Sciberras

Jan 9th 2010, 13:29

What Marsalforn needs very badly is the reconstruction of the breakwater.

M Vella

Jan 9th 2010, 13:06

Hope St. Marija Street is included in this "extensive road works" as it's one of the major roads in Marsalforn that is in a disastruous state. I also hope that this extensive work does not only include the small stretch of road ajdacent the Marsalforn seafront, that's currently closed!

In addition, please let's not forget the Santa Marija breakwater (which was mentioned earlier on in the times). Apart from obvious damage to the seafront apartments and restaurants, it poses serious danger to all those swimmers who enjoy the area in summer with all the metal work hanging out from the now underwater lose structures of the breakwater...

Wayne Dubois

Jan 9th 2010, 12:51

Did someone say Marsalforn, i wouldn't be seen dead walking about in that area, the place is absolutly filthy, it looked more like a main rubbish dump, very un- hygenic and in the summer with the hot sunning streaming on broken rubbish bags littering the area or marsalforn, and talking about the swine flu more like the black plague* no not for us thankyou verymuch.

Peadar Farrell

Jan 9th 2010, 12:38

Not a very informative article, there are a lot of roads around Marsalforn needing a lot of repair, which ones do they plan to do? A common thread in the comments below, would the engineers in charge, have the works carried out to a proper EU standard. Its better to do a lesser amount of work properly that bad work all over the place. I must step off the footpath on the way to home on Triq Santa Marija a number of times to avoid threes/shrubs planted in the middle of footpath; prizes of some sort should be awarded to the originator of that idea. It would be unwise to waste money on the Promenade as it could be washed away at any time. Rebuild the breakwater first

Paul Camilleri

Jan 9th 2010, 12:36

@ W Spencer

I hope you never visit Buskett. The amount of scattered rubbish all over the area is far more horrifying, I can reassure you.

W Spencer

Jan 9th 2010, 11:42

Visited Qbajjar promenade a few weeks ago, and was disgusted at the dirty, rubbish strewn state of the place. Apart from the pizza boxes, beer cans ( holiday makers rubbish, I think not ), part of a small wall knocked down, empty cement bags, a large dead rat, and a few dirty nappies, littered the place.

Building unwanted, unecessary apartments, flats, etc, seem to be no problem, yet once finished, maintenance seems to be non-existent.

Frank Hardy

Jan 9th 2010, 10:46

Why only Marsalforn what about other places in Gozo one that comes to mind is Qala leading to Hondoq, oh and by the way try an employ some real tradesman dressed up with the full Red Indian gear and GET Rid of all the Cowboys!!! If you get my drift.

MARK MIFSUD BONNICI

Jan 9th 2010, 10:17

Apart from work on the roads, the Marsalforn pavements must hold a world record for shabbiness apart from being very dangerous to pedestrians. The one in front of my apartment in Qbajjar Road is around 40 cms high, which means I have to park my car well off the pavement, if not the car door cannot be opened. Apart from this there are steps leading into the bottom flat which one has to step down into the road to avoid.

Are these what we call "EUROPEAN STANDARDS" and if not will we ever meet such standards?

Should anyone want to verify this, the flats are called Lucky Flats.

This is one of over a hundred other anomalies I could mention in the area. Hopefully this initiative to arrange roads will not be another gimmick.

A Azzopardi

Jan 9th 2010, 09:26

I hope that ths time Govt allocates part of the funds to appoint an independent professional to oversee the standard of work done.