Local road works programme well underway

Bettina Cassar

Sep 3rd 2010, 08:30

475 roads so we re gonna have 475 more road patches in Malta ! I cannot understand why they do half or a patch of the road instead of doing the whole road. It is so dangerous, first driving on a nicely made patch of tarmac then all of a sudden you re driving on a glass like tarmac that with the sun s reflection makes you think you re partially blind. It only increases the rate of accidents. Still grateful for the effort .

alfred delmar

Sep 2nd 2010, 13:02

Nipera li Triq il-Buskett li tiehdok ghac-cimiterju ta' San Andrija tkun wahda mill-ewwel toroq li jsir, ghax veru triq dizastru.

T Mifsud

Sep 2nd 2010, 12:39

Thanks for the efforts done by the new Zebbug Council Major Mr. Alfred Grixti to obtain a better way of living for the Zebbug citizens. Well done.

George Debono

Sep 2nd 2010, 12:11

Sur J Farrugia

“”””””””””Hekk baqa' jonqos mhux bizzejjed li t-toroq qed idejquhom, bicycle lanes jonqos.”””””

L-ewwel nett mhemx diskors ta bicycle lanes.

It-toroq residenzjali huma spazju ta’ kullhadd, mhux karrozzi biss.

B’mentalita bhal din ta’ hamsin sena ghilu, mghux biss nibqghu lura, nihxienu ukoll.

G

Raymond Pace

Sep 2nd 2010, 10:25

I would like to know if Dr Said has ever came around Gzira streets, Now that the rain soon be with us again the residents of Gzira and all the drivers that use the Gzira area will find the same situation that was there last year and previous years, that is floaded roads. Another promise not kept by the PN goverment.

H Schembri

Sep 2nd 2010, 09:32

I wonder what ISO Standards if any they are going t use to build these roads. :-/

A E Thearle

Sep 2nd 2010, 08:31

Very nice for Malta to get all this money but are they going to build the roads properly and have them inspected as they work on them by some one who realy knows their job! or lay them as they do so as a little later things like the man holes in the road start to sink due to bad workmanship! etc. etc.

Christopher Sammut

Sep 2nd 2010, 08:29

what about triq il Qawsalla m'scala - there's isn't even a road yet and people living in all the street!!!

Freda Busuttil

Sep 2nd 2010, 08:03

I appreciate all the work that the government is delivering especially in road building and updating. But what about the connecting piece of road joining Zabbar (from Hompesch Gate) to Zejtun known by all as 'It-triq tac Cawsli'? Is no one responsible for this hazardous road? Come winter we regularly experience flooding and potholes ...and NOBODY cares! And we still pay our taxes but it seems that all we say and plead falls on deaf ears.

Eman Cassar

Sep 2nd 2010, 07:39

20 triq ghalik. They are surely not for everyone since they did not seem to have bicycle lanes! Instead of focusing on car traffic they should think of the other alternatives maybe some more people will stop being lazy and instead of using cars to travel short distances, they try a bicycle instead! It will only do them good. And it will also be good for the environment around us.

With regards to asphalt, please stop laying patches all over the country, do an entire road at one go! One of the funniest things i have seen lately in a particular road, coming out of San Giljan tunnel going to Marsa. They laid new asphalt in a bend which is good, however the new asphalt terminate before the bend finishes. Come on! There is no need to be a genius to understand the impact of this action! :S If you are riding a motorcycle and you are in the bend you start with very good grip, all of a sudden you ll be bending on a glass like road :S. At least do the entire bend and leave the straight part as it was!

James Mizzi

Sep 2nd 2010, 07:26

Dr Said, are these new works going to be patched some few months after works are completed as happened in Triq l-Awrat, Xghajra?

J Micallef - lija

Sep 2nd 2010, 03:29

Road reconstruction is important but there are other important issues, that show that ADT (TM now) has failed.

Road reconstruction needs to take other important considerations, e.g. more fly-overs to reduce trafffic lights and roundabouts - i.e. more time saving for drivers and less pollution. More pedestrain underpasses or overpasses - again time saving for drivers and less pollution, more cycle lanes, more hard shoulder, mroe crocodile lanes, bus stops that are not in the middle road etc etc ...

however, apart from all these, any news re road building in Malta is good news ...

adrian gatt

Sep 1st 2010, 23:16

It is a shame that the Sliema Local Council is focusing on other less important (actually trivial) items than suggesting some Sliema roads for repairs. Apart from road maintenance, on the 21st of March 2007 the sliema local council (during a council meeting) had unanimously approved to commision a traffic management study for all of Sliema which would have cost less than Lm2000 (see minutes of meeting by SLC). Three and a half years later, instead of financing such a study, the local council was lost on Fairy Lights costing thousands of euro. So now we have ended without road repairs, without a holistic traffic management study and without fairy lights also. But thankfully, the pavement at ix-Xatt is riddled with trenches (which , it seems are there to stay) and the saga continues. Politics has ruined the local councils.

George Debono

Sep 1st 2010, 22:28

Continues

This kind of road design is out-dated, unsocial and unhealthy because it favours car use and discourages people and children from walking in the road. Or are these (residential) roads going to be modern and based on the "Home zone" systren as is being adopted in progressive countries? - that is: paved or cobbled with trees to provide shade and benches here and there; with no pavement and allowing cars to drive along them but giving priority to pedestrian children or cyclists so that people (AND children) are encouraged to walk along them? This is all discussed in paras 393 – 420 of the Think Tank report “Towards a Low Carbon Society - the Nation's Health, Energy Security and Fossil Fuels” (available at http://www.tppi.org.mt/cms/index.php/reports ).

A copy of this report was presented to key Government personell and, (I believe) to Dr Said personally when he met the member of the think tank some months ago

Read also paras 297, 298 of this reoort.

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George Debono

Sep 1st 2010, 22:19

Dr Said I hope you get to read this. First of all I am pleased to read that roads are being upgraded but what is sad is that roads continue to be built only for road vehicles and do not take into account that roads are a public space. Thus the interests of pedestrians children and cyclists are not catered for. If we take the road I live in as an example, the pavements are narrow (about 3 feet or 90 cm) so that people walking along the road have to walk in single file and mothers pushing prams are often to be seen sharing the roadway with cars because the pavement is so constricted.

My question is: are those roads in residential areas going the be built in exactly the same way as the successive authoritiers have been building them for the last 100 years or so? That is: a central asphalted strip (as wide as possible to allow for cars) and narrow pavements whioch discourage people from walking in the road?

Continues...........

J.Darmanin

Sep 1st 2010, 22:11

What about Triq l-Ghansar and Triq Salvatore Cachia Zammit, Qajjenza Birzebbuga?

Paul v. Borg

Sep 1st 2010, 21:27

Swieqi will soon be renamed Moonville. Please surface our streets before the name kicks in for good. Did you get that Moonville Local Council ?

Alice Galea

Sep 1st 2010, 21:09

It would be appreciated if Dr Said took into consideration the remaining part of Triq il-Vjola Marsaskala. Various letters to ADT have fallen on deaf ears. We have beein living in dust, damaging our vehicles and risking broken bones for the past five years.

Joseph Tonna

Sep 1st 2010, 21:05

Nahseb jekk nibdew napplikaw aktar crossovers mill traffic lights naslu aktar fil hin ( time os money ) bekk nahlu anqas fuel, bekk ikollna anqas tniggis, aktar poplu b sahhtu....

Jesmond Micallef

Sep 1st 2010, 20:50

It is good to read that the road works programme is in full swing. I've just had enough of reading negative comments about the state of the roads in Malta !!

R. Micallef

Sep 1st 2010, 20:24

what about Josef Kalleja Street in Swieqi sur Chris Said ?

Karl Abela

Sep 1st 2010, 20:05

keep it going boys!!

R.Borg

Sep 1st 2010, 19:51

Thank you, Minister, and Prosit.
And long live the maltese prophets of doom and gloom.

Tony Caruana

Sep 1st 2010, 19:19

The minister should have a look at the roads finished just two years ago, They are full of cracks and in a few years they will be full of Pot Holes.

Giulio Borg

Sep 1st 2010, 19:14

Certi nies dejjem jeqirdu.....apprezzaw ftit x sar u x se jsir.....

Charles Massa

Sep 1st 2010, 18:54

Issa tara kemm se jaghmlu minnhom.......................... Promessi biss

Joseph Tonna

Sep 1st 2010, 18:45

Hawn hafna traffic lights u roundabouts jistaw jinbidlu fi crossovers... ahsbu naqra fija din u x tista tiffranka bil crossovers...hin, pollution etc.

A. Azzopardi

Sep 1st 2010, 18:42

Incredible, not one single road in Sliema! Well, they gave you the tools but apparently you did not use them. But then the Sliema Council was busy with other things.

R Pace Bonello

Sep 1st 2010, 18:33

Perhaps Dr Said thinks that the roads in Sliema are in excellent shape and do not need any upgrading! Or perhaps he does not care, joining the elected district MP's as well as the extinct Sliema Council. The Sliema voters will not forget how this Administration has abandoned Sliema.