Michael Scicluna, St Paul’s Bay
Jewel in crown that has lost its shine
Residents in parts of St Paul’s Bay have been made to suffer due to bad planning and the I-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 resurfaced. Some roads which were listed in August 2010 for resurfacing works have not been started let alone finished.
The roads that have been done were those used when the Prime Minister came to pay a visit to St Paul’s Bay and Buġibba, but the rest are still on the waiting list. Some have been started this very week, disrupting the summer period when the place should be welcoming the tourists and the Maltese who have a summer residence or live there all year round.
Who was responsible to accept that 180 parking slots be removed from the area to be embellished when for years there were 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?
Some pavements are not navigable. You can see this when people actually risk their lives by walking on the road, mostly elderly people and people with pushchairs.
Another issue is garbage control. People are still allowed to dump all sorts of rubbish near bring-in sites and nothing is done to book people who bring out the garbage after collection time, sometimes leaving it there for two to three days.
The bollards and ironwork along Xemxija Promenade up to 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.
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Mr Edgar S. Galea
Jun 18th 2011, 14:19
The person who is at the headship of St Paul Bay Local Council at the moment should be replaced without further delay by a more experienced person before more damage is done to the locality.
Charles Micallef
Jun 18th 2011, 11:00
The facts are that SPB Council has lost complete touch with the locals and the locality, their loyalty (for obvious reasons) has been towards their respective political parties policies and spend their time ignoring the needs of our locality. if one is to believe people close to the Council is that the budget allocated for SPB by the Central Government is not being consumed to look good with the party and at the expense of the locals. St George's street upgrade has become the biggest farce going in the history of the local councils.
And to exacerbate things someone very high and mighty (at least he thinks he is) has been the instrument to now move the council offices to Veccia, as far away from the people as possible, perhaps they are envisaging a quieter future.