SRA questions Sliema council's priorities

The much needed and long overdue Sliema holistic traffic management plan does not seem to be a priority to the Sliema local council and has apparently been left on the back burner since March 2007, the Sliema Residents Association (SRA) said.

In a statement, the SRA said the council discussed the residents’ complaints on high air pollution levels within Sliema caused by the excessive motor vehicle traffic within this locality in March 2007.

Councillor M. Debono had then proposed to the council to commission a traffic management study for Sliema which should not exceed the cost of €4,660. His motion was unanimously approved, but, regrettably to date, this holistic traffic management plan was nowhere to be seen.

The SRA said it brought up the Sliema precarious traffic problems in a meeting with the council last January, expressing its concerns regarding resultant air pollution which exceeded EU safety levels, and urged against further delays on the much needed and long overdue Sliema holistic traffic management plan.

SRA had also urged the council to issue a public tender for bidders to draw up a holistic traffic managment plan for Sliema to address the locality’s precarious traffic problems.

This plea seemed to have fallen on deaf ears.

The SRA questioned the council’s priorities.