St Elmo Bridge open to the public
The St Elmo Bridge is now open to the public, Transport Malta said.
The authority asked visitors to be cautious to ensure an enjoyable experience.
It said that no access was permitted onto the breakwaterm and access to the bridge was from the Marsamxett side of Valletta through the Jews Sally Port.
TM warned that the rock pathway beneath Fort St Elmo leading to the bridge was unlit and unsuitable for vehicles and it was not advisable to venture to the site in the dark.
The area, TM said, was very exposed to the natural elements associated with the open sea.
Therefore, especially during storms, the public should not approach the bridge especially if waves were breaking.
In the interest of safety and security no one should climb onto or over railings and gates or onto the arch or sides of the bridge, TM said, adding that jumping into the sea from the bridge and its ancillary facilities was strictly prohibited.
TM noted that the sea under the bridge was a traffic route for small vessels crossing into and out of Grand Harbour. Therefore, no fishing was permitted.
Moreover, no vehicles were permitted to block access to the bridge or to access or park on the bridge abutments.
The authority said the bridge may vibrate during certain conditions. People who experienced motion sickness should descend or stand on one of the two elevated belvederes at either end of the bridge.
Young children should be accompanied by adults at all times.
No barbeques, fireworks or other incendiary devices were to be used on or around the bridge and the public hadto heed site safety notices and indicated restrictions at all times.
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Victor Laiviera
Jul 26th 2012, 23:42
Official confirmation that the bridge is a bridge to nowhere - you are not even allowed to go one pace beyond it.
Ric Humphreys
Jul 27th 2012, 12:40
Are you Allowed to Breath on the Bridge ........... List of Do nots and Donts but not one Enjoy .............
Jonathan Saliba
Jul 27th 2012, 14:55
You could always take a walk on the bridge and enjoy life and the view. But perhaps you prefer to stay cooped up at home and whine about this or that. Pity.
ANTHONY PAVIA
Jul 27th 2012, 16:53
What Mr Laviera is whining about is the missed opportunity to spend wisely € 3 millions of taxpayers money.
Victor Pulis
Jul 26th 2012, 23:07
The project is being funded by Transport Malta and was announced by Infrastructure Minister Austin Gatt in 2009.
The Times September 25 2011
So much for EU funded!
Alfred Cassar
Jul 26th 2012, 22:18
Well done !
Typical in here .... sour grapes by the same LP supporters wearing dark red glasses. For them everything this Government does is wrong
Ruben Hili
Jul 27th 2012, 09:03
Well Said Alfred.....They are still learning how to do things!!
Victor Pulis
Jul 27th 2012, 09:22
Mr. Cassar I assure you that not all those criticising the bridge are labourites. There are still people who are able to see priorities and call a spade a spade. it is you who wear blue tinted glasses and it is people like you who are going to help the labourites to gain power come next elections. We've seen this all before.I am not against a bridge but against the timing it was built. There are more important projects like for instance the refurbishment of the Ta'Qali Crafts village to name just one example the showcase of Maltese crafts so essential for tourism.
victor bonello
Jul 27th 2012, 12:51
well said MR Pulis, people like Cassar and Hli do not reason their heads but are told what to say. The more I hear this kind of reasoning that anyone opening his mouth is a Lil Elve or stupid Lejburist, the further I float away from PN ( partit negative)
Eddy Privitera
Jul 28th 2012, 10:55
Alfred Cassar: Int flusek kif tonfoqhom ? Tonfoqhom l-ewwel f'xi haga li m'ghandekx bzonn, jew f'xi haga li ghandek bzonn urgenti taghha ?
Victor Pulis semma, per ezempju, l-villagg tas-snajja f'Ta Qali lin l-PN kien ilu jwieghdhom insejt kemm il-sena daqs kemm ilu ! Hemm imorru eluf ta' turisti kulljum biex jaraw ix-xoghol tal-idejn li joffru tant operaturi f'dak il-villagg. KEMM TAHSEB LI SE JMORRU TURISTI FUQ IL-PONT LI MA JWASSALHOM IMKIEN ?????
Pule' Carmel
Jul 26th 2012, 20:56
It is a bridge, not exactly a beautiful bridge but very cheap considering that it cost about the same as the total salary of eight MEP at Brussels or Members of the European Courts.
I walked that breakwater for many years including running along the tunnel .
Once the breakwater was hit by a supertanker which moved the Galletta on top of the light hose at the very end.
My colleagues who are deep sea divers tell me that the outside immersed wall of the breakwater is eroded in many parts. I suggest a lot of blocks should be deposited on the outside of that breakwater as in Marsaxlokk and Cirkewwa to ensure that it is a BREAKWATER. As it is , it is no breakwater at all but it is A REFLECTOR OF WATER, and causes standing waves. If it was a truly BREAKWATER, the waves would not be reflected but absorbed and there will be no standing waves on the outer side.
If only people would see all this physics and science when they walk on it. One can also see in action GROUP VELOCITY AND PHASE VELOCITY when the waves are coming skewed with respect to the wall and if the waved approach the wall at 90 degrees, the resultant wave along the wall will be longer and the traveling wave along the wall will have a longer wavelenght, same frequency and thus the peak travells along the wall at higher speeds than the open sea wave.
I should leave the University and take up a post of a guide on that wall. My daughter Sarah and I learnt more physics and wavemotion through living around that harbour watching science in action and to this very day many people just do not understand wy the wave travelling along the wall of a breakwater is travelling at a higher speed than an open free wave. All this including the wave motion of a boat travelling in the early still waters of the grand harbour is more rewarding thatn any Laboratory.
If only in Malta we had teachers who would take our children for a walk and explain all this hidden wonders around tham.
Incidentally, I personaly do not like the " arts" and the "look" in that bridge, but as far as the tensions and compressions in the steel works, it is beautiful, but not as wonderful as I would have done it myself so that engineers would enjoy the physics that keep it in situ
That bridge has too much marterial in it and I would have made it more beautiful and simpler. As it is the top arch or the curved bit is in a comression mose while the lower horisontal part is in tension mode and they work in unision to keep the Bridge in that particular shape. The vertical and the diagonals are to separate the upper and lower elements and they are not that critical.
Now here comes my bit. The structure of the walls on wither side is so strong , that it could take a lot of compression and shear downwards. so the lower horizontal tensioned element is UNECESSARY so the bridge could have been just an ARCH whose ends would push on the wall, causing the wall to be subjected to a horisontal comoression and a vertical sheer which it could take so easily. As it is the wall is subjected to a vertical sheer but not a side compression as the ends of the top arch and the horizontal lower element are welded together. So it is not a neat bridge both in an artistic sense and in a technical sense. It could be more beatiful, but then this beauty I speak about would have gone unnoticed unless we learn more physics at school.
Bridges are so beautiful and even roads are being arched horisontally being supported by cables on a SINGLE CENTRAL POLE EMERGING FROM A MOUNTAIN TOP while the road makes a beautibul sweep around a mountain at about 300 feet suspended in air, This horizontal arched roads suspended by cables is I BELIEVE THE EPITOMEE OF INTELLIGENCE IN BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION. In Malta we are so far away from ever reaching all this invisible beauty. Pity really. yes I shuld leave university and become a guide on the Valletta bridge.
Incidentally I believe the Valletta LIFT is going to be so Ugly. I would have done better to slide a glass bridge along the surface of the Bastion and just imagine the panorama one would see.
As far as the opera house , I assure everyone I would have done better than Piano as I have a shorter name Pule' and as far as the University buildings I would have designed the extensions such that instead of the students rushing out quicly to go home, my designs would intoxicate the students with its beauty and they would not want to leave the place as they do now. They would want to sleep there as I did in some Britich Univeristies including Oxford, Cambridge and Durham. But in Malta even the most Popular architects would not know what I am talking about and they are not capable of creating the soul and spirit compatible with the use of the building . Unfortunately some of our Chrches are like Museums and Farmhouses with no holy spirit enclosed in them and some of our schools like our University buildings cause students to hurry back to their own home. Most architects so not know the curves and contours which will creata a particular soul and spirit in churches houses, schools and bridges. They are too superficail and depth comes from a sensitivity that is found in one's parents and other natural surroundings. Pity we lost most of this with our pointed modern buildings which MEPA does not seem to appreciate when it gives permission to popular architects. Pity, our buildings have no soul!
Mr ALBERT LEONE GANADO
Jul 27th 2012, 08:38
As usual very intelligent creative observations from you when it comes to the science of engineeering. I am sure you would have designed a more interesting structure than this bridge to nowhere but of course our know-alls do not consult creative engineers like you . I am sure you would also have come up with an interesting solution to turning this into a link to Birgu . As for myself in the interest of creating a memorable experience of our grand Grand Harbour I would instead of this steel beam have erected a dominating high statue of Neptune or of ST Paul.
Ivan Cocker
Jul 27th 2012, 08:53
So true ... if we put the touch and feeling into what we build and do like you expressed so well ... and agree with you nature is the best teacher to understand what we study/ied!
Noel Abela
Jul 26th 2012, 20:42
If I cross the bridge cananyone tell me were it leads me.
Pule' Carmel
Jul 26th 2012, 23:06
It would lead you to a beautiful world of natural static and dynamic phenomena whose amount of invisible beauty can be seen and appreciated through your own education. That is if only you walk on it and just look at the stone work and the resulting phenomena as the waves hit the wall with all its different moods and each mood will produce such a beautiful pattern in the sea. Look up Chladni's figures in vibrating plates.
You will see the beauty and the meaning of the phenomena created due to the nature of the water being repeatedly "zaqqu ratba imma rasu iebsa!" at different frequencies on the same or different dates. The result of that alone could keep you amazed for a life time.
Now if you walk down the stairs to sea level and you look into the life of creatures on the wall in the form of muscles, crabs, fish, algae, and if you take a HGIEGA with you, you can marvel at the living community in the cracks and crannies of the wall below the surface of the sea.
I shall not mention what you learn through fishing and how fish behave but you do not need to fish and as I do go and see the ritual that some fish follow every morning before the sun rises and just before the sun sets. very often I used to see a wide area of the sea surface where the fish seems to move in formation in a square pattern where the nodes of the square pattern is about four metres, What happens as the fish move in formation, they break the surface from under all in unison and the soft breaking of the surface causes round patterns each about four metres away from each other. I often see this behaviour around the breakwater just before sunrise and before sunset and I often conclude that the fish go through a ritual where then are thanking nature for the sunrise and just before sunset they do the same thanking nature for giving them light to hunt and now they are to rest. I HAD NOTICED THAN WHEN I WAS IN A BOAT AMONGST SUCH A PATTERN , I NEVER CAUGHT A FISH AS IS THE FISH ARE SO IMMERSED IN PRAYING THAT FOOD AND BAIT DOES NOT INTEREST THEM . Sometimes I believe that they are thanking God for sunrise and for sunset when they rest. It is a wonderful feeling walking on that breakwater, meditating the world around you.
From that breakwater , you can see the wave motion created by sea craft of different sizes and different designs from sailing boat to power boats and rowing boats and ocean going liners including planing hulls , displacement hulls, single hulls and catamarans and so on . The shimmering surface of the sea when the sun reflects its rays at a certain angle is a sight that brings any man who walks that breakwater closer to God well at least his god and if the observer does not believe in God, the sights would give him such an uplift, that he would return home ot his wife and family a happier man thanking God for giving us such a wonderful world to appreciate.
There is more to appreciate as you cross over to walk that breakwater, It leads people to wonderlands even better that when Lucy went through the looking glass to see illusionary rabbits and mad hares. Nothing is illusionary when you walk alone on that breakwater if you have eyes to see with and a mind that digs deep in explanations.
If one is blind , it is still a wonderful world of odours and smells, The smell of the sea and the algae, the feeling of the salty sea, and the noise of the wind as it circulates and votive form around the sharp points and close to your own ears. Yes there is plenty to " see" even for a blind man.
And the temperatures are also educational as in a hot summer day the hot air rising from the top concrete surface will cause MIRAGES and the distant Ricasoli and distant scenario are distorted and dance with the rising convections. When it is cold and the sea is rough, the wave hitting that breakwater will break into tiny species of water and the spray will retreat and reflect the sun's rays to produce a miniature RAINBOW for just one second, where this is repeated often which astounds any observer.
I often see this scenario and when any of my students are depressed on the verge of leaving the Engineering course at our University, I take them to trips as The breakwater and nearby places or even at Cliffs near the North west side of malta where the rainwater falls over the cliffs and an opposing wind causes it to break into small particles of spray acting as the humidity which reflects the white sunlight into a rainbow, such a beautiful scenario which few are so lucky to comprehend where to find it. many of my students who are under a stress do appreciate " bicca hobz biz zejt" as he watches all this in silent. I never tell my students what they are going to behold but I make them sit at the right position and the right angle and when the rainbow forms at a few metres away from us, YOU SHOULD SEE THEIR EYES LIGHTEN UP. " did you see that?" they ask and then I tell them that is the reason I asked them to come with me, just to see such beauty around us.
Most students so not say another word and they would want to stay longer and longer. and when are ready to go back home they normally say to me, " Sur Pule' Ma tantx inti CUC hux?" to which I normally reply, " Ma tantx , ma tantx!"
So I wish I could go further in telling people where that bridge will lead then, no it will not lead you to any trouble because even what you see is troubled waters, there is beauty in that too, if you have an education to filter out what is real . Please forget to learn all this from your teachers , you learn to see only if you do not close your eyes. Incidentally we did not need that bridge to appreciate what I had described to the readers , but now with that bridge, it facilitates the journey and hope that more people and more children will appreciate the silence that takes you t a higher level of thinking than the noisy festas in Malta. Now you have your choice, the colourful noisy festas where everything does not need much understanding, to walk that bridge in silence on any day and to recognise the different scenario that any day brings along with it. In a local festa ,the band and the bandalori are always the same, but the invisible beauty on that breakwater is different thrill every day of the year, I depends on what is within yourself to recognise the beauty before you , and most of it is invisible, as the forces which keep those stones together, stones brought over from Gozo at Hondoq ir rummien where the reason for selecting those stone is all written in the stone work in a language that you must learn to recognise.
Well, some time ago a local company had difficulty in borrowing some money from a bank, because the bank manager could not see a good reason for this company spending one million Euros on a device.
Well, I hope I did the same here and persuaded the people that 2 million Euros equivalent to the salary of 8 MEPs or Court members in Brussels did Malta a lot more good than the MEPs or the translators at the court members at Brussels enjoying their salaries and pensions on their own and for their own benefit. At least the Bridge is for a National benefit and for children to go and watch what I see and mediate in peace about the beauty of our own life.
I am becoming poetic in my old days!!
Steve M. Engerer
Jul 27th 2012, 08:33
To the Labour Party!!!!
NOWHERE!!
Victor Pulis
Jul 27th 2012, 09:26
Into the drink! And after they fish you out in court because you would have broken the law according to TM!
C. Sammut
Jul 26th 2012, 20:10
Bridge over troubled waters?...
S.M. Cuschieri
Jul 26th 2012, 19:59
Now whether the EU funded it or not , alla hares wasalna fis-stat li ghall-bicca bridge irridu l-ghajnuna tal- EU!!!. And no, no one is forbidden to cross it, although, I may add the warnings of the TM have put me off a bit!! LOLOL!! But i guess they have to state the dangers that may arise from irresponsible people! And what the heck has labourites and nationalists got to do with it...Iva halli ghalihom il-laburisti jmaqdru but I should think both sides should enjoy this bridge! Our political sagas really have gone too far!!
Chris Vella
Jul 26th 2012, 20:39
agree 100%
Victor Pulis
Jul 26th 2012, 19:36
Can anyone confirm that the bridge was indeed funded by the EU? Is there anyone in the knowwho can answer? No suppositions please. The parliament project was not financed by the EU and it's a much more ambitious project.And please stop branding thjose who are criticising the bridge as labourites. Believe it or not thare are still some who still call a spade a spade and know what priorities mean.
Victor Pulis
Jul 26th 2012, 19:28
I bet there are a lot of people who were looking forward to a stroll along the breakwater arm!! Now they have been told what has been said many times in the recent past. The breakwater arm is off limits. So it is true that the bridge leads to nowhere. C.Cassar is suggesting that fishermen, if they're allowed to fish from the bridge should pay a fee and he also puts the fee at €10 per day! Is that how he imagines the bridge to contribute to our economy? may i suggest a fee paid by every tourist that comes into harbour on a cruise liner?!
Now that the bridge has been built would it not be a good idea to put up some kind of wire mesh along the railings to a height of say two metres to prevent any dare devils from climbing onto the railings or should we wait for an accident to happen as usual?
Chris Vella
Jul 26th 2012, 19:15
If everyone that makes fun of the bridge or simply criticize are a Labourites my friends you’re going to suffer the biggest landslide defeat in Maltese history.
Very poor mentality
Victor Vella
Jul 26th 2012, 18:57
Ara fejn GonziPN qed jahli il-flus. Issa taghmel xi grigalata u addio il-bridge li ma jaghaqqad lil hadd. Flus fil-hela.
Alex Buds
Jul 26th 2012, 19:23
Hardly - it was well overdue to be fixed after over 70 years!
Steven Bonello
Jul 26th 2012, 18:49
What is the point of opening the bridge and denying access to the breakwater, thus denying a new view and perspective of Valletta and the Grand Harbour? Access to the breakwater should however be limited in some way - ex access should be forbidden in cases of inclement weather or for security reasons, but otherwise walking the length of the breakwater would no doubt enhance the Valletta experience.
Jan Haut
Jul 26th 2012, 18:48
Well done for the Bridge !!! And the pillars under it..... keep them there, they are part of our history.
But please let us fish from there, and when the authorities think its rough, easy close it !!!!!
C Cassar
Jul 26th 2012, 19:09
If you want to fish from there you need to pay towards the large refurbishments costs. Something like a €10 per day charge would be fair.
Wally Vella-Zarb
Jul 26th 2012, 22:33
Fish from the rocks like people have been doing since time immemorial. No need to pay C,Cassar anything. ;-)
Sarah Camilleri
Jul 26th 2012, 17:58
any way, so now we have all paid for a bridge which we are forbidden to cross and we are expected to be grateful.
And no, sorry, I''m not a Labourite.
P Azzopardi
Jul 26th 2012, 18:41
Did you read somewhere in the article that is is forbidden to cross the bridge ?
I think TM has done a good job of informing all about safety regulations ....regulations which have to be obeyed so as to prevent any unnecessary accidents....
I am also not a labourite but i think there is no restriction whether labourites or nationalists can cross the bridge ...is there ?
Sarah Camilleri
Jul 26th 2012, 17:58
If the bridge were EU funded, Government would have been legally obliged to publicise the fact and place a permanent placard mentioning this source of funding.
Sarah Camilleri
Jul 26th 2012, 17:57
Dear all commentors
Where does it say that this bridge was funded by the EU?
I stand to be corrected, but why should the EU fund a project which does not contribute towards enriching the EU economy in any way?
Philip Grech
Jul 26th 2012, 17:33
Using similar arguments as to those in favour of the useless roofless theatre, why was not the ruins of the bridge left as a monument of the war while the theatre is fully rebuilt. After all, the gap at the breakwater was and still is useless with or without the bridge, while the useless theatre ruins could have been converted to something useful.
Alex Ciantar
Jul 26th 2012, 17:03
With all these rules and regulations, the site safety sign must be as big as the bridge.
Simon Cassar
Jul 26th 2012, 22:51
LOL!!! good one :)
John Borg
Jul 26th 2012, 17:00
I am going to try to change my name as as when I see such comments, i hang my head in shame. where in the world can you walk on a breakwater?
Stephen Lock
Jul 26th 2012, 17:20
It Swansea south Wales we have a 2 mile break water out in to the sea and you can walk the whole length of it and fish from it and BBQ on it :p
Jonathan Barnes
Jul 26th 2012, 17:23
Many, many, many places They are used for fishing and general recreation!!!! Of course weather restrictions are observed as with any sea wall, promenade etc
Patrick Zammit
Jul 26th 2012, 18:43
At many fishing villages that dot the South Coast of the UK. Also in Scotland and many others.
Brian Portelli
Jul 26th 2012, 16:53
The bridge's set up repells you..... With that free standing rotting pillar in the centre .... do you find this bridge to be pleasant?
Andre Grech
Jul 26th 2012, 17:11
I totally agree with you. I can't understand how that horrible rusty pillar was not removed. The bridge looks an eyesore with the pillar in the middle
Mr John Borg
Jul 26th 2012, 16:50
"It said that no access was permitted onto the breakwater"
So what was the point of building it? I thought that it would have least permitted us to venture and walk along the breakwater!
Victor Rodenas
Jul 26th 2012, 16:33
Under the bridge there are very strong currents, if somebody falls in the sea and is not a strong swimmer he/she will drown.
DR EMMANUEL BEZZINA,MA,MAG.JUR.[EU Law],LL.D.,
Jul 26th 2012, 16:24
By the way.............how much did the reception cost, who were the caterers, how much were these actually paid, and who was on the invitation list.............................PEOPLE do not be ridiculed any further by those using YOUR MONEY for the carnivarous enjoyment of the established parasites!!
Joseph M Scicluna
Jul 26th 2012, 16:45
Caro Dottore
Il-bniedem mhux bil-hobz biss jghix; u min ghandu widnejh, ha jisma'; u min ghandu mohh jahdem tajjeb, ha jifhem. Milli jidher ma stiednukx.
Robert Lewis
Jul 26th 2012, 16:54
This is the best comment with sense. And whats the use of going on the bridge but you cannot go on the breakwater. When we were young we used to swim it across and then go through the tunnel leading to the lighthouse which was very interesting. Why is it that people are not allowed on the breakwater, there was no point in spending 2.8 million euro then just to have a bridge. At least let the public who paid for it enjoy the beauty of the breakwater.
John Borg
Jul 26th 2012, 17:14
have you thought about the maintenance work that needs to take place? should they fly to it? and what's wrong by making the bridge accessible to the public? people always want more. vote labour and get less!
Mario Tabone
Jul 26th 2012, 16:15
So Victor Bonello and Chris Vella would have preferred the old eyesore that was the old war damaged wreck that had stood there since World War 2 even though this was again funded in the main by money from the EU as far as I am aware.
Once again those with a obvious political bias and little minds will say anything to have a go at the government. At least the jobs created these days are real ones and not like the infamous Dejma and Pijunieri that the famous PL strategists invented when they were in power !!!
Over one million euros a day is spent on health on these islands......if that is economising then I say we should economise even further !!!!
Time will tell as usual and history will repeat itself should PL win the forthcoming elections . God help us all !!!!
Chris Vella
Jul 26th 2012, 17:01
First of all I have no connections or affiliations to any political party so please don’t go saying I’m red or blue and secondly as long as I know Malta gives contributions to the EU. So stop saying its being mostly financed by EU.
But you know what since I’m Maltese I think I have my right to say what I think or it’s normal practise for PN to try shut up anyone that have a different point of view. And I was kidding as it was a joke.
People like you are those that make people like me stay away from PN and for what LP or PL will do when they will be in power I think it will harm less than what your Gonzi did in the past 4 years and I say Gonzi because PN is history.
N Azzopardi
Jul 26th 2012, 17:27
That was the reason why Malta was in shambles under a PL Government. Everything was abondoned cause money was the concern. The country looked like a third world country. A tourist arriving in Malta,passing through the airport was a nightmare. Infastructure no was issue.
Chris Vella
Jul 26th 2012, 17:48
Mr. Azzopardi
Have you been in Cospicua?
I go there for work Libya is in better shape.
J Farrugia
Jul 26th 2012, 16:13
There's less restrictions at the white house.
John Borg
Jul 26th 2012, 16:24
Dont be a typical labourite. simply because there are warnings that help prevent accidents evokes such sarcastic comments from people like you. it shows that you may be familiar with the Macina but certainly not the whitehouse!
J Farrugia
Jul 26th 2012, 16:47
Labourite??? you have no idea who i vote for so zip it, it's a free country after all or is it or have the blue eyed boys taken over completely.
W Cassar
Jul 26th 2012, 16:49
Warnings to prevent accidents lol Thats rich.... in Malta everyone does as he pleases with no enforcement! You see it everyday especially on the roads.
John Borg
Jul 26th 2012, 16:58
Your attitude just says it all. you don't have to declare what you are as it shows!
Jessica Smith
Jul 26th 2012, 16:08
The authority said the bridge may vibrate during certain conditions.
Soldiers were warned not to go in a uniform step on bridges as this may cause the bridge to resonate and vibrate and may cause it to collapse.
What if the vibrations on the breakwater bridge are big enough to make it collapse due to resonance?
victor bonello
Jul 26th 2012, 15:59
another 2.8 million well spent. We shall be told this will create jobs, enhance the economy, increase tourism, etc etc.. and our national debt grows whilst we economise on Health and education... will we ever get rid if this cancer plaguing Malta?
GL Calleja
Jul 26th 2012, 16:09
So this bridge to nowhere was not even built in Malta? It makes for a nice nice fishing pier.
C Cassar
Jul 26th 2012, 16:13
most of the money came from EU funds. The EU approves there part of the funds, they don't just give the money when someone asks for it.
The project has already supported companies in Malta who were involved and will continue to do so through a maintenance program.
It's all part of the refurbishment of Valletta, part of Maltese culture which many Maltese seem to have little interest in. All I say is thank god the EU has more intellect to help these projects along otherwise Malta would simply be a polluted wasteland by now with hardly any visitors if it was simply left to the lack of vision many Maltese citizens seem to display.
John Borg
Jul 26th 2012, 16:25
We should have built it at the labour household the mALTA SHIPBUILDING, AND IT WOULD HAVE COST 10 TIMES MORE.!
Ramon Mangion
Jul 26th 2012, 18:47
No this was built in Spain and no eu funds
Chris Vella
Jul 26th 2012, 15:51
It said that no access was permitted onto the breakwaterm
so they are right a bridge to no where. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Alfie Lewis
Jul 26th 2012, 16:14
To Mr Bonello and Mr Vella
the Valletta Harbour Bridge is going to compete with the Sydney HarbourI Bridge for the new Years Fire works. I 'VE BEEN THERE i ' ve seen it just a lump of mental
John Borg
Jul 26th 2012, 16:26
BRIDGE TO NOWHERE? HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A BREAKWATER THAT LEADS TO ANWHERE EXCEPT FOR SERVE ITS PURPOSE? dO YOU KNOW THAT A LABOUR GOVERNMENT WANTED TO DO THIS? SIMPLY SOUR GRAPES EH?
brian farrugia
Jul 26th 2012, 23:12
if you can`t get on to the breakwater, why build a false bridge. Looks nice on the outside but is of no use, a sham! like many things in Malta.
Carmelo Aquilina
Jul 27th 2012, 09:31
@ Alfie Lewis
are you serious ?There is no comparison between the breakwater bridge and Sydney Harbour Bridge .. in the same way that the roofless theatre is to the Sydney Opera House
Please choose the reason of your report below: