Garibaldi Street closed for about a year
Garibaldi Street, one of the main roads leading to the airport, was closed yesterday for about a year for rebuilding.
The works are part of a project, announced last month, of major road upgrading as part of the TEN-T Trans-European Transport Network.
Other road works in the same project include Council of Europe Road, also in Luqa, Flagstone Wharf and Triq l-Ghassara tal-Gheneb in Marsa, Marfa Road from Mellieha to Cirkewwa and Mgarr Road, Gozo, between Xewkija and Victoria.
The works on Council of Europe and Garibaldi streets are projected to cost €10m and will be completed in a year, a spokesman for Transport Malta said.
85% of the cost of the projects will be forked out by the EU.
The projects will include new utility services and boundary walls, landscaping, street furniture and safety features.
Alternative routes have been prepared for people wishing to go to the airport.
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Schembri Ray
May 21st 2011, 07:18
Almost 1 million a month for a 100m work done. We have precious roads (pools) by this pro rata!
Amaryllis Agius
May 21st 2011, 02:06
Garibaldi Street closed for about a what??????????
Mr Stephen Camilleri
May 20th 2011, 14:12
.... highways in Japan were rebuilt in three days after the big earthquake.
http://www.good.is/post/earthquake-ravaged-japanese-highway-rebuilt-in-three-short-days/
Mr Paul Abela
May 20th 2011, 07:44
Kif triduhom ma jihdux sena biex illestu din it-triq! Diga ilhom jumejn jahdmu hdejn ir-roundabout u kull ma ghamlu hu li ittrimjaw xi sitt sigrit.
D. Farrugia
May 19th 2011, 23:08
Sena ohra terturi igifieri. Sena bil-first, clutch, break, first, clutch, break, forsi ftit bis-second, u l-bqija first sakemm forsi ssib bicca minghajr traffic jam.
Michael Vella
May 19th 2011, 22:53
1 Year???????
Mr Michel Ellul
May 19th 2011, 22:40
TM... 1 year...is this a joke. Don't you know that the Japanese can do it in 6 days..repeat 6 days!!.. tal-misthija eee!!
http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/24/japanese-repair-quake-ravaged-road-in-just-six-days/
Mr John Micallef
May 19th 2011, 22:06
Apart from the extremely long and unjustified period estimated for re-doing this road, I do firmly think that there are worse ones that need work....
Makes me remember when some 7 years ago, a contractor was supposed to do B'KAra Road, St.Julians, which took ages to complete.
Charles Massa
May 19th 2011, 18:07
Propaganda ghal elezzjoni, ghal hekk sena biex jaghmlu bicca triq
Joe Fenech
May 19th 2011, 17:54
Pappilha l-EU, Gahan! Your dream will be over soon and in a couple of years' time, Malta be another bankrupt country like Greece and Portugal. They too went through a boom!
Joe Fenech
May 19th 2011, 17:53
If the bridge to Gozo project went ahead, how long would it take? A CENTURY?
Mr Tony Camilleri
May 20th 2011, 01:15
A millennium would be more correct. What a disgrace a whole year for just a small road. SHAMEFUL, DISGUSTING
Joe Fenech
May 19th 2011, 17:50
1 YEAR?????? For one blinkin kilometre????????
Mr Peter Korsten
May 20th 2011, 01:16
And don't forget, only one way.
Since I'll be working next to MIA come October or January, I was silently saying things that the editor no doubt would censor, but then I saw the other projects, including the closure of one of the few half-decent exits out of Valletta in the middle of the City Gate project. It... could have been worse.
A.f Ellul
May 19th 2011, 17:43
Jiena ma nafx xgara f'daqqa wahda,jirrangaw it-toroq , qed qorob iz-zmien biex jibda is-servizz tal-harozzi tal-linja il-godda,,ghandi jkunxtara il-qmis li ma tigiehx.halsu taxxi poplu,,u tghid mhux ser nemnu 85% min EU. bhala ghajnuna.hadnija fizzju,
A. Borg
May 19th 2011, 17:35
Proset fil-frisk irrangajtuna lin-nies ta Sta.Lucia! Domt nofsija biex hrigt u wasalt il-Marsa fis-7.30 ta filghodu! Kieku jahasra stennejtu lit-tfal ta l-iskola jieqfu ghal vaganzi tas-sajf it-traffic kien jonqos bin-nofs.
Mr patrick mifsud
May 19th 2011, 17:22
hlief tgergru ma taghmlux. jekk issir it-triq tgergru jekk ma ssirx tgergru. hawn malta hlief nies igergru ma hawnx. hasra li ma tezistiex power station tahdem bit tgergir ghax kieku dawn li hawn fuq dan il blog jixeghlu Malta kollha. jekk ma tridx tasal tard ahseb naqra qabel.
A. Borg
May 19th 2011, 17:47
Lil uliedi wasalhomli int imbaghad. Hallina habib. Ilha snin hekk ma felhux jistennew sakemm tispicca l-iskola mqar!
Mr patrick mifsud
May 19th 2011, 19:42
jistenna il permess tieghek biex jibda. ghax ma baghthomx bil van bhalma ma naghmel jien u immur kmieni ghax xoghol biex nevita it traffic.
Matthew Farrugia
May 20th 2011, 07:04
@A.Borg: Jekk trid iddum sena biex titlesta allura kien ifisser nidhlu fuq zewgt is-sjuf biex nistennew l-iskola tispicca.....jekk trid ahseb kmieni
Mr Joe Borg
May 19th 2011, 16:58
If you are interested in seeing the map of the affected areas together with the planned diversion routes visit:
http://www.dca.gov.mt/News.aspx?newsid=2186&lid=1
Note "Please click here for diversion routes." link.
Ms Maria Vassallo
May 19th 2011, 16:47
Prosit and thank you for these projected road works!
Bil-haqq: long live the prophets of doom!
long live the prophets of gloom!
long live the maltese gerger!
long live the spoil-sports!
long live the envious and the jealous!
Alfred Vassallo
May 19th 2011, 17:25
Prosit and thank you for these projected Bzar fl-ghajnej
Bil-haqq: long live the Blue Contractors for having another field Day.
Bil-haqq: long live the National dejn, u hija mhux dawk il qatta.....irridu ihalsuh!! l-aqwa li hadna mal 500Euro zieda.
Bil-haqq: Issa nitfulhom il karrotta quddiem halqom u imbad naraw.
U bil-haqq: If we don't make it come next Election! well we cannot say we are going empty handed can we now. Heh Heh . Ole Ole Ole. Those poor compatriots sods.
A. Borg
May 19th 2011, 17:45
Tidher li ma toqghodx din-in-naha ghax kieku mhux proset tghid imma latanija shiha kull filghodu!
Mr Daniel Jones
May 19th 2011, 16:22
To everyone wondering why it will take a year to finish, ask yourself what will happen in just over a years time.
That's right, an election. Instead of pushing the contractors to finish these projects in a reasonable time, teh government will have its fanfare openings and we will have yet another brochure through our doors with all the 'finished' projects just like last time. Except half of those were not finished and some are still ongoing.
David Calleja
May 19th 2011, 16:12
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1369307/Japan-tsunami-earthquake-Road-repaired-SIX-days-destroyed.html
Stephen Koludrovic
May 19th 2011, 15:45
after the Tsunami, the Japanese were capable of rebuilding a long stretch of their motor way in a week.
Daniel Calleja Jackson
May 19th 2011, 15:36
Seems like we need an election, the pope or the queen to get things done in time.
Victor Vella
May 19th 2011, 15:14
I have seen complaints and more complaints here, but I pass through Bulebel, then Tal Barrani, xintill roundabout down Sta Lucia Avenue through Marsa.This morning at 7:35 I was at the traffic lights at the end of Tarxien road (Bulebel) at 8:00 I was at Junior college, which with all the traffic is not bad.But I need to ask the following.
What were the Transport Malta personell doing standing smartly at Xintill roundabout looking at the cars drive by? These could have been better utilised at the junction between sta Lucia avenue and Palm street to stop those ruddy idiots cutting into traffic and holding up a massive number of cars, the traffic police near the cemetary was doing a good job as were all his collegues.So please all those grumbling shut up and let the people work.
M Busuttil
May 19th 2011, 15:18
Nixtieq inkun naf kif tista tifhem il problema meta inti mhux mill-area milquta.....nahseb ahjar toqod int shut up!!
Mr John Camilleri
May 19th 2011, 15:11
L-ironija hija li Hal-Luqa se jkun milqut l-aktar,peress li l-karozzi li qed jitilghu mit triq ta l-andrews,qed jidhlu ezatt fil-qalba tar-rahal u qed ikun hemm kongestjoni shiha fir-rahal innifsu. Tal misthija kif dawn il-progetti, jiehdu dan it-tul ta zmien kollu.Kif ma jitqghux bina l-barranin.
M Busuttil
May 19th 2011, 15:00
What a joke??? Gifieri l-panic ta dalghodu ghandna sena bih......biex immorru ix-xoghol u nergaw lura lejn id-dar? Kulhadd ifittex alternative routes...u l alternative route li sabu jew trid tispicca l-Gudja jew tmur Hal-Qormi. Minn got-tagen ghal gon-nar! U leeeeee l-aqwa li kulhadd jitkellem fuq id-divorzju :-)
Ahna mhux nies 'wishing to go to the airport' !
Nahseb ahjar jippreparawlna monument iehor bhal dak ta' Hal-Luqa!
Timmy Farrugia
May 19th 2011, 15:08
worst thing is that knowing malta's record on keeping up with its deadlines is that it will probably take over a year and a half!!!
Sylvana Camilleri
May 19th 2011, 15:21
SENA????????????!!!!!!!! imbaghad iridu jiehdu hsieb l-ambjent!!! viva l-emissions!!!!!
R. Camilleri
May 19th 2011, 14:38
I cannot understand why in Malta it takes a year to finish a couple of kilometers of road works.
Typically motorways abroad are built from scratch at a rate of 1km per week. Imagine taking 6 months per kilometer!
Charles Sammut
May 19th 2011, 14:36
"85% of the cost of the projects will be forked out by the EU."
How jolly nice of them. They take our taxes, then give us some of it back and tell us what to do with it. The rest they keep to pay for the handsome salaries of the fat cats at Brussels. I am almost ashamed that I had voted NO to this European Utopia.
Joseph Scicluna
May 19th 2011, 15:26
How much of your taxes has gone to the EU, (that is if you pay any taxes) and how much the EU has granted Malta since joining? Give us the actual figures mhux paroli biss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mr Tony Camilleri
May 20th 2011, 01:18
We have paid and lost more then the eu has ever given us with all strings attached Scicluna
Mr B Borg
May 19th 2011, 14:25
And in Japan streets split in two were done in six days
Mario Pace
May 19th 2011, 14:17
I live at Zurrieq.
I will have to pass through alternative routes daily to go to work and back home and not "for people wishing to go to the airport".
Without the major road works, queue starts at SGS, now propably it will start at Zurrieq!
I do not know when I will be arriving at Valletta for work. Most probably, park and ride will be full by the time arrive.
May God help us!!!
Sarah Attard
May 19th 2011, 14:53
@Mario Pace
It's not just that Park & Ride will be full by the time you get to Valletta for work .... in less than 2 months time you have to find somewhere else to park as Park & Ride will be charging €2.50 per day and if you're late you've had it ..... believe me I know, I work in Valletta aswell!!!!
Mr C Cassar
May 19th 2011, 16:47
If you work in Valletta, it's the easiest place to get to by bus and there's a new system coming at the start of July.
Ms G Schembri
May 19th 2011, 22:21
@ Mr C.Cassar Buses in our villages where 45 mins late this morning, not everyone can afford to arrive at work 45mins late.
R. Gauci
May 19th 2011, 14:16
Sena ??!! Il-Gappun bnew highway f'gimgha wara t-terremot u go Malta triq ta` ftit metri se tiehu sena?? Liema rata se jahdmu? 10 cm per day??
Mr James Farrugia
May 19th 2011, 14:16
However much news of new and well built roads is welcome, I can't even imagine the total traffic disaster that this is going to cause, will we see traffic police doing a proper job will they be placed in advance of the bottlenecks advising of routes ahead (i suggest they use the Afm choppers for traffic reports).
Also please traffic police fine the idiots who have no patience and insist on pushing in therefore making the traffic worse.
Mrs shar camilleri
May 19th 2011, 14:02
a year????? this is a joke... after the big earthquake in japan, hundreds of highways were destroyed, most of them re buil after 2 weeks!!!!
Mrs Victoria Cassar Spiteri
May 19th 2011, 13:56
Ghanda sena maghluqa!? jigifiri ha naghmlu sena bil-genn li kien hemm dalghodu fi triq tac-cimiterju ta' torok? Possibli ma setawx jevitaw li tinghalaq Triq il-kunsill tal-ewropa u triq garibaldi f'daqqa!