Transport Malta is considering various proposals to reduce the impact of the proposed flyover at Kappara junction on neighbours and their residences, while easing traffic congestion, Transport Minister Austin Gatt said in Parliament today.

Kappara residents in comments to The Times last week said they had asked an engineer to come up with alternative road plans to the proposed spaghetti junction, which, they said, threatened to ruin the value of their properties and put their health at risk.

One resident, who preferred not be named, said his property, valued at €500,000 in recent years, had been rendered practically unsalable by the proposed plans.

The multilevel junction, aimed at easing traffic at this major intersection, will include a flyover on Regional Road. However, the flyover will reach the level of the houses, which have so far been at least two storeys above street level and which were not designed to face a road.

Most of the upmarket residences have gardens, a few with pools, which will now be exposed to the gaze of passing drivers. The bedrooms would also be exposed to traffic and fumes.