Beatrix Asciak, St Paul’s Bay
St Paul’s Bay struck off the map
May I ask the powers that be why the residents of Valletta, Sliema and others have residents’ parking bays while we residents of St Paul’s Bay are not afforded that luxury?
If I go to Valletta and use a resident’s parking space I’m fined but if a resident of Valletta parks outside my door I have to put up with it and park on the other side of the village.
To make matters worse, a substantial number of parking slots in Tower Street have been taken out because of the new embellishment. Pensioners who use their car for church cannot do that anymore, they could perhaps use the new buses but again, according to the leaflet, St Paul’s Bay is only mentioned in one route and that bus goes to Wardija and Buġibba.
For some unknown reason St Paul’s Bay is being struck off the map. All services have been transferred to Buġibba i.e. the social security office, the day centre, the post office and of course the police station which although open is not much use to us residents – even to collect the vote we had to go to Qawra. Qawra and Buġibba are offshoots of St Paul’s Bay. Services should be in the village core where the elderly can access them easily. After all it is St Paul’s Bay local council and not Buġibba or Qawra.
However, even the council is moving away from the village core!
I am a septuagenarian and ever since I was young the real residents of St Paul’s Bay have always complained that nothing is ever done for them. Everything is done for the villeġġaturi and the tourists. If my ancestors had to come back they will be certainly pleased to be proven right even more now.
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Ms Maria Vella
Jun 17th 2011, 17:12
Reserved parking is discriminatory. Whilst it is frustrating for people who want to park close to their homes, it is equally frustrating for people who work or need to run errands in the area.
Karl von Brockdorff
Jun 17th 2011, 11:21
I dont know what you are on about. I live in Tigne, Sliema, and I have to go around for 40 minutes to park anywhere remotely near to my home and do not have the luxury of any residents parking of which you speak.
And even if there was, I'm pretty sure it's harder to come a cross a parking space in Qui-si-sana than it is in St.Paul's Bay. Some areas are subject to a far higher influx of traffic than others.
Michael Scicluna
Jun 16th 2011, 17:33
Disservice for St Paul’s Bay and District Residents!
Residents in parts of St Paul’s Bay have been made to suffer due to bad planning and don’t care attitude.
Some roads are still in a state of despair, one being St George Road which was taken up by trench digging, waiting for weeks to be re surfaced. Some roads which were listed in August 2010 for resurface, works have not been started let alone finished.
The roads that have been done where those when the Prime Minister came to pay a visit to St Paul’s Bay in Bugibba, but the rest are still on the waiting list, some have been even started now this very week, disrupting the summer period when the place should be welcoming the Tourists and the Maltese who have a summer residence, not to leave out the residents themselves.
Whoever was responsible to accept that 180 car parking slots to be removed in the new embellishment, when for years there were far cries to increase the parking areas in the District!
Soon we are also to lose a free parking space of some 200 cars in Qawra. Does anybody care for St Paul’s Bay?
Not to leave out the state of some pavements that are not walkable, you can see this when people actually risk their lives walking on the road, mostly elderly people and people with pushchairs.
Another issue is garbage control, people are still left to dump all sorts of rubbish near Bring in Sites, nothing is done to people who bring out the garbage after collection time, and sometimes it is there for two to three days.
The bollards and ironwork along Xemxija Promenade up to near the Government School have never been painted.
St Paul’s Bay should be the Jewel in the Malta Crown, and yet look at it now.
Love Where You Live and Keep it Tidy.
Mr Tony Camilleri
Jun 16th 2011, 12:17
There is a constitutional case being heard by our courts and that is the reason SLiema has not implemented the reserved parking scheme all over Sliema.
All the schemes are anti-constitutional.
Read Article 45(1) and 45(3) of the Constitution about which I wrote many times on The Times.