Free CVA afternoon access to Valletta
The CVA charge for entry to Valletta will be free of charge every day in December from 3 p.m., the Valletta Business Community committee said.
The committee said this was agreed during a meeting with Infrastructure Minister Austin Gatt.
During the meeting, the committee expressed the concerns of the Valletta business community at the lack of access and parking brought about during the Valletta regeneration process. The two sides agreed that the issues raised warranted further discussion.
The Valletta Business Community Committee, which represents the majority of business outlets and offices in Valletta, was set up earlier this year under the auspices of The Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry, together with the Republic Street Business Community Association, the Merchants Street Business Community Association and the Valletta Alive Foundation.
The main purpose of this committee is to ensure that access to Valletta is not affected during the Valletta regeneration process, by finding adequate alternative means of access, and that the generation of business continues during this difficult period.
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Louis Gatt
Nov 18th 2010, 19:22
Free parking in Valletta is good news both for shopkeepers and for their clients...but where's the parking? Most of the the time I've tried, I never found a space where to park and simply drove out to somewhere else. Cost of entering CVA was never the issue, but space is!
Andrei Azzopardi
Nov 18th 2010, 19:08
Also have the decency to park in the WHITE BOXES ONLY, the others are resident parking areas. CVA charge has to be increased. Since the CVA has been set up, I see MUCH MORE CARS in our area than before. Nowadays we cannot do errands anymore because of the HUGE problem of parking that we have. And as Mr. Farrugia said in the first post and what Dr. Austin Gatt said in previous public statements, the CVA was done as a source of revenue and NOT as a measure to protect the Valletta 'rotting-by-smoke' architecture.
M Bonello
Nov 18th 2010, 18:00
This is the most stupid decision ever taken. So in December, to find parking within a kilometer of my house, I have to leave work at 2pm - or might as well not go home at all.
Please re-think this decision a.s.a.p. and INCREASE cva prices to discourage cars from entering the capital.
Mark Vella
Nov 19th 2010, 09:22
Stop being selfish! If you are a resident, you have your own 'reserved' parking spaces (blue), which again will be increased after 7 pm (green)
If you were a business owner in Valletta i'm sure you would agree with such a decision!
Ronald Cauchi
Nov 18th 2010, 17:08
LOL. So minister Gatt says that CVA is not making money, so what do we do? Elementary my dear Watson. We stop charging money in the afternoon. Brilliant!
joseph farrugia
Nov 18th 2010, 16:19
it is clear now that the CVA charges was intoduced to increase revenue and not as an inviornmental measure.
Jimmy Magro
Nov 18th 2010, 20:16
Mr. Farrugia: it is not the objective which matters. It is the final result. Whatever was the government objective it failed.
The government sustained a big financial loss so there was no net revenue
More cars went into Valletta which means more fumes.
Before we used to stay to hit two birds with one stone but this time, poor Minister failed to grasp the stone.
On the above news: removing the CVA tax to enter Valletta, with less parking spaces, where are consumers/taxpayers going to park - or are they expected to use cloud computing from icon