Charles Micallef, Qawra
Substandard pavements
I refer to Michael Scicluna’s St Paul’s Bay Council Deserves To Be Booked (September 2) and would like to add that the reasons why the area has pavements of a poor standard is that when the new pavements were laid some years ago, the workmanship done was very shoddy and substandard.
Not all the bases beneath the brick surface were made of concrete and most brickwork was not vibrated in situ, as such works demands. This was pointed out to the mayor at the time but, like most things that happened then, every suggestion made was steamrolled or ignored.
We are now paying the price for this shoddy workmanship: good pavements have a lifespan of 25 years or over but some only lasted eight years before the bricks began to sink and different levels started appearing on the pavements all over the district.
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Charles Micallef
Sep 9th 2010, 22:23
H. Galea
You are so correct, pavements are nowadays built to suit car garages and not the pedestrians who they are built for initially, be safe walk on the pavements used to be a byword now it is walk on the pavement but only if you can!
What is wrong with removable ramps when one needs to park the car in the garage, or is convenience for one garage owner more important than a 1000 pedestrians?
H Galea
Sep 9th 2010, 20:01
Mr Micallef, you should visit the new areas in B'kara, the pavements are made for car users, so the driver can drive the car right inside the garage. these are leaning, slanting in all shapes and directions. We cannot walk on them, we have no option but to walk in the middle of the street along with the traffic. In a way it's safer. The MEPA has baned the building of such pavements many years ago, but still are in use today. Before the surfacing of roads, we expect that pavements are made level and it's meaning given to the pedistrians. We are getting from bad to worse in this Town, where the money is being spent, no one knows.Sorry I have to expose such a big Town, but facts are real.A skoda car with out Licance Plates and flat tyres has been parked off the Councel for over a year, No action taken, even after reports, in the same street , an iron grating near the football ground is not in place, No wonder the Town holds the Motto of Dont see, etc still in force today. No one makes a move,''WHY'' are we second class citizens.