Senglea trees to stay as plans are changed
Most of the trees at Senglea seafront are to be retained after all, with the Transport Ministry bowing to public pressure to review its designs for the upgrading of the area.
The ministry explained how, before the works were taken in hand, it had carried out extensive consultation with stakeholders. A full development application was submitted to Mepa and no objection was made to the replacement of the trees with others. Mepa granted the permit for the trees to be relocated.
It was only once the works were taken in hand that complaints started being made about the uprooting of the 44 trees (30 Ficus Nitida and 14 Tamarisk).
The ministry said it will be submitting new plans which would see the relocation of only three of the Ficus and eight of the Tamarisk trees. They will be replanted in another section of the seafront.
The project will create a wider road for easier access to coaches serving the cruise liner berth at Senglea Point.
As a result of the redesign, however, the hardstanding facility for boat owners will be smaller than planned and it is not clear whether there will be fewer parking spaces.
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Mr Andrew Camilleri
Oct 3rd 2012, 10:37
These trees have been saved. We now have to save the 2000 trees that are planned to be eradicated at the Kennedy Grove. Save our trees!
walter camilleri
Oct 3rd 2012, 09:09
For God's sake, leave both trees and parking places where they are, and get MEPA and Transport Malta to stop declaring war on trees and motorists. Rather than wasting money on unwanted parliament buildings and disfunctional open theatres, Government should think of the convenience of the Tax-paying public, rather than its mistaken ideas of progress.
Walter Camilleri
Arthur Taliana
Oct 3rd 2012, 09:23
100 per cent correct
Franco Abela
Oct 3rd 2012, 08:08
WHAT I FIND IRRITATING IS THAT THE DESTRUCTION OF TREES FROM OUR ROADS IS USUALLY JUSTIFIED BY PLANTING NEW ONES IN THE COUNTRYSIDE!!
WE NEED THEM WHERE WE LIVE NOT ONLY IN THE COUTRYSIDE.
PS: MORE TREES DOES NOT MEAN LESS PARKING SPACES IF PROPERLY PLANNED. FOR EXAMPLE IN FLORIANA MANY TREES WERE REMOVED.... TOGETHER WITH THE PARKING SPACES!
Franco Abela
Oct 3rd 2012, 08:01
THAT's BECAUSE BY STAKEHOLDERS YOU DO NOT INCLUDE THE PUBLIC
Jessica Williams
Oct 3rd 2012, 07:21
I trust that Transport Malta has learnt a lesson or two from this event as well as the recent car park privatisation. The general would like to contribute ideas, collaborate to ensure the project objectives are achieved and participate in decision making especially when it effects our quality of life.
J Galea
Oct 3rd 2012, 07:02
Embellishment = pull up mature trees and put in bushes.
Look at Mellieha church and so many places where this has been done.
Trees are living things that should be moved or removed only if this is the last viable option not at the first opportunity. What is this new plan for near the Phoenicia do and why pay 4000 euro for each new tree while removing others???
Joe Sultana
Oct 3rd 2012, 11:23
there's another person that believes the massacre of the trees at MELLIEHA was a disgrace and an insult to that once-beautiful piazza.
Whoever had that bright idea shoukld go and hide!
Mr Alfred Camenzuli
Oct 3rd 2012, 05:25
What about the near Ghajn tal-Hasselin trees that are lifting the road and lifting the 6 inch concrete central strip.
Paul Sammut
Oct 3rd 2012, 04:53
The way MEPA awaits the No Objection is ridiculous. Not everybody has internet or buys newspapers or reads the supposed sticker walled in the vicinity to raise objections. Such a stupid method should be amended in the sense that besides the present praxy, those in the vicinity of the project (every project not this project only) should be informed by a short letter sent by MEPA.
Mr Andrew Camilleri
Oct 3rd 2012, 10:38
This is what is done in England. I believe this was one of the proposed reforms for MEPA - of course, it never happened. Now I wonder why.
jacqueline chircop
Oct 2nd 2012, 23:40
Now we need to save the rest......( ie Floriana, Valletta, Salina etc...) Once again shame on Transport Malta for destroying so many trees and for wasting public money .
Tony Camilleri
Oct 2nd 2012, 22:44
Why do people have to continuously monitor MEPA when it should not do these thighs in the first place?
Why fewer parking places?
Why continue to saddle the drivers with less parking spaces?
How can the shops in the area continue with their business with less customers because of reduced parking to make way for tourists coaches?
I honestly believe that the tourist coaches is simply an excuse to justify losing parking and boats spaces and nothing is going to convince me otherwise.
david debattista
Oct 2nd 2012, 22:11
As a Maltese citizen living abroad , I am aware of the great disadvantage we have in Malta ! Why not appoint a day in the coming years where the citizen contribute to the environment by planting a tree . It does not have to coast thousands of euros, any tree suitable for our climate will do AS LONG AS IT'S GREEN !
Pule' Carmel
Oct 2nd 2012, 22:05
For heaven's sake, throw away that Birgu Cospicua, Number one Dock project, level the road and side dock and plant a few trees. That is mush better for the residents.
David Stellini
Oct 2nd 2012, 21:43
Mr Brincat. . I have been to Bormla and seen the extension to the yacht Marina and the new promenade being built near the Bacino cafe . Unfortunately the project has been plagued by the Italian contractor who bid such a low offer that could not continue the project , and the govt stopped his contract.
But you are so blinkered with your political bias that you refuse to acknowledge how the area all along the birgu waterfront had been transformed . Unlike what Dom Mintoff ever did for the area , who only used Gavino Gulia square to use the dry-docks workers for his own political gain . Yes mr Brincat you fall into the category of Maltese Gemgem of the worst kind - with your constant naive comments.
Justin Borg Saywell
Oct 2nd 2012, 20:39
In the meantime, the trees along the Biskuttin, near the Phoenicia, will be uprooted and replaced by other trees costing 4.000 euros each.
Anne Armstrong
Oct 2nd 2012, 20:16
brillant news well done all who helped save the trees.
Tony Borg
Oct 2nd 2012, 19:56
Goodwill my foot.............Fewer parking places!!
This arrogant is on a Mission to destroy Parking Places (like he did at opposite to this site in Birgu). He wants Joe Public to use the Arriva so that he can go about his business using his car nicely with traffic.
What an arrogant LOT!!!
Franco Abela
Oct 3rd 2012, 08:02
I AGREE. LAST WEEK WAS MY LAST TIME DINING AT BIRGU! IT WAS A NIGHTMARE TO FIND A PARKING SPOT!
C Galea
Oct 2nd 2012, 19:56
This change of heart happened due to the petition being signed at the moment which I urge everyone to sign Well done FAA
Secondly if there are trees to be removed they should be removed at the middle of winter not like what happened at Mdina Bastion when a lot of orange trees were removed at the wrong time
Astrid Vella
Oct 2nd 2012, 19:55
It is very gratifying that the decision to uproot all the mature trees on Senglea Waterfront has been reversed after the outcry led by Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar (FAA). It seems that the Authorities have now realised that since the trees are not damaging the area and the road is not being realigned there was never any need to remove these trees.
This begs the following questions:
1. Why were these trees going to be uprooted in the first place?
2. Why was the public going to pay so much more for a more damaging project?
3. Whose idea was this?
4. How much were the toxic and invasive Melia Azedarach trees going to cost?
5. Have these trees already been imported and paid for?
Furthermore, we ask what is the Transport Minstry's idea of public consultation? Only the Council was informed. From all our contacts none of the residents had the least idea about this project. Saying that there was intensive consultation is pure dishonesty.
We urge all readers to sign the Stop Killing Trees petition which now stands at over 1,000 - these trees have been saved but almost 2,000 more are planned to be destroyed in the coming months.
See the video and sign the petition here:
http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-killing-trees-in-malta
D M Grech
Oct 2nd 2012, 21:27
Are you sure the existing trees going to be replaced with (presumably more) toxic and invasive Melia Azedarach trees?
Steve Zammit
Oct 2nd 2012, 18:47
goodwill has prevailed
Maria Sammut
Oct 2nd 2012, 18:25
Well done. Now we have to fight for the Kennedy Grove and Floriana ones.............................. before the elections
Ray Buhagiar
Oct 2nd 2012, 18:15
What a big mistake. The Ficus trees are well known for causing damage with their roots. Replace them with some other trees.
In the meantime who will remove that T painted on the trees.
Antonio Anastasi
Oct 2nd 2012, 19:23
Ray Buhagiar The Ficus Nitida if planted well will not cause any root damage.
Drive around the country and see the hundreds of Ficus that are not doing any damage after years in the ground.
Astrid Vella
Oct 2nd 2012, 19:30
Damage by ficus roots is avoidable if the planting bed is adequately prepared and that seems to have been the case here as the promenade is intact as are the services beneath. A good lesson for other locations.
j brincat
Oct 2nd 2012, 18:02
@David Stellini
"Maltese gemgem. Go and see for yourselves how this derelict area which used to be the "benniena" for GWU and Protests to break down the Curia etc etc has been transformed......"
Why don't you pay a visit to Bormla and see the chaotic state that there is thanks to GonzPN's project which never got off the ground and which by now should have been completed months ago.
The Bormlizi finished with a half baked cake and now looks like Syria under siege!
But who cares!!!
(jb)
Adrian Meli
Oct 2nd 2012, 18:48
I agree that Cospicua has been left in a disatrous state. Could it be due to the fact that it is considered to be a labour stronghold? I wonder....
Giovanni Carmelo aka John Carmel Navarro
Oct 2nd 2012, 17:48
Dialogue done in a rational manner does reap the benefits; in this case I feel a very acceptable compromise has been reached.
Mr Andrew Camilleri
Oct 2nd 2012, 17:47
I like the way TM slipped in the last paragraph - hoping that the locals get angry with FAA. Nice try TM, but in reality the locals know who is right.
Antonio Anastasi
Oct 2nd 2012, 17:36
"As a result of the redesign, however, the hardstanding facility for boat owners will be smaller than planned and it is not clear whether there will be fewer parking spaces."
This statement is wee bit of a spin and incorrect.
In fact, with keeping the trees in place nothing changes other than that the trees will stay there.
The space originally designed for the wintering of boats will remain recreational space for the pedestrians, the trees will remain and the boats moved to the area by the macina.
So I cannot understand where the parking argument comes in as it was not nor is it an issue. I am told by a boat owner that the the area by the Macina where the boats will now wintering is a better and safer place for the boats.
James Tyrrell
Oct 2nd 2012, 17:31
Well done to the residents and to FAA for once again fighting the good fight and seeing that common sense prevails.
Peter Murray
Oct 2nd 2012, 19:07
A battle won - but not the war.But what about the fate of the 11 trees about to be transplanted -what hope for them?
Peter Murray
Oct 2nd 2012, 19:07
A battle won - but not the war.But what about the fate of the 11 trees about to be transplanted -what hope for them?
Victor Calleja
Oct 2nd 2012, 17:22
U hekk imissu jigri fil pjazza tar Rahal Gdid. Min irid iqaccat dawk is sigar mhux qieghed jirrsaguna.
Antonio Anastasi
Oct 2nd 2012, 17:38
Victor you are right so get organized and talk to the local Council. It would be said if that square is turned into the concrete shadeless place we saw ion the diagrams.
David Stellini
Oct 2nd 2012, 16:47
MAltese gemgem. Go and see for yourselves how this derelict area which used to be the "benniena" for GWU and Protests to break down the Curia etc etc has been transformed. The best Marina in the med with superyachts , restaurants , cafes , and the soon to be completed promenade . And still people complain . Perhaps "the people" would have been happier with the "Berlin wall "there was previously , and totally depressed and dilapidated and some GWU demonstrations thrown in for good measure . Viva Gavino Gulia Square Ta Duminku Mintoff . xi Dwejjaq Ta nies - appreciate the HUGE improvement all around you with regeneration of the whole area . Including old people's home , amazing sports centre up the road , restoration of bastions , new roads - and you still complain .... About the trees .
Antonio Anastasi
Oct 2nd 2012, 17:26
Nobody has been complaing about the regeneration of the area, even though this has been done, like in the case of the Bormla citizens, at their expense and inconvenience as well as the loss of those beautiful old trees that used to give them shade while they walked.
The complain was that the original design meant the loss of the iconic mature trees on the promenade.
Mr.Stellini, the best part of the Creek is in fact L'isla promenade which still maintains a Mediterranean feel to it. One of the things that makes this promenade attractive are in fact these old Ficus, that the government now agrees should stay in place. When one looks across to the yacht marina from Senglea one get the impression of a barren site. In fact , while sitting at L-isla its the green of the trees of the Memorial and the trees of Cottonera that catch the eye.
James Tyrrell
Oct 2nd 2012, 17:30
David trees are important. It's not as if the island is swamped with them. Of course improvements are important but improvements can take place without cutting down trees. It just means that those responsible have to actually think a bit!
Arthur Taliana
Oct 2nd 2012, 18:39
When did you last visit the area? Or do you reside on Commino?
Louis Saliba
Oct 2nd 2012, 18:47
@ David Stellini
1. We are talking about trees, specifically about the trees along the Senglea seafront, so the bulk of your post is, at best, only peripheral (if at all relevant) to the point in question.
2. According to you (and a few others of your ilk), anybody who complains about anything is labelled under the heading of "Maltese Gemgem". Apparently, it has never entered your head that people have a right to complain about what they feel is wrong, and that quite a large proportion of complaints are fully justified.
3. If I may be allowed to digress from the main theme and reply to your general remarks, perhaps you could lend me your magic glasses so that perhaps I can get a better view of the "regeneration of the whole area" you mention, along with what you call "the best Marina in the Med". One tends to wonder whether you have ever seen any other Marina in the Mediterranean. Certainly, there have been improvements in the Three Cities area over the years, but perhaps before you start singing songs of praise, you might like to take a look at the present indescribable state of the Cospicua seafront (from Gavino Gulia Square to just beyond St Theresa's Church) - preferably after taking off the glasses in question unless, as I very much fear, they are permanently welded on.
Tony Camilleri
Oct 2nd 2012, 22:52
Are you referring to Malta or to some other country because the Bormla project is a total disaster.
MT Caruana
Oct 3rd 2012, 08:39
@Mr.Stellini,
Are you for real? Do you live on the moon?
Yes Cospicua is a PL fort, so is Senglea..so? You have a problem with that?
The Marina in Vittoriosa is awesome that is true, but for you to get to it, you are lucky if you don't break your neck.Go and see for yourself before to bla bla bla.........
Re your comment of the Curia......shame on you.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE.
Albert Zammit
Oct 2nd 2012, 16:42
jien nahseb , li jekk kulhadd ihares sew fir ritratt. jara wire tad dawl ghaddej. nahseb ikun aktar ghaqli li dawk il wires tad dawl li hemm. li huma wires privati, jinqalaw qabel ma ssir xi tragedja.
Adrian Grech
Oct 2nd 2012, 16:40
lanqas bis mishom jahsbuwa li inehu is sigar mill ewwel
Victor Laiviera
Oct 2nd 2012, 16:31
Not good enough. ALL the trees must stay.
Victor Pulis
Oct 2nd 2012, 16:22
The project will create a wider road for easier access to coaches serving the cruise liner berth at Senglea Point.
According to the plans I saw the road will be narrowed rather than widened.
Besides Senglea will gain nothing from the cruise liners berthed at boiler wharf as the tourists will be whisked away in coaches as soon as they land.
Antonio Anastasi
Oct 2nd 2012, 17:15
Senglea will gain a badly needed investment in infrastructure which will include, refurbishment of the promenade, making it even more attractive to those tourists that would prefer not to do the tours but their own explorations.
Victor Pulis
Oct 2nd 2012, 17:40
Tourists already visit tthe senglea promenade without the refurbishment.Those arriving on the cruise liners will be driven off to some more privilaged place. I am all for refurbishment but I doubt id Senglea will get any benefit. what the city will get is more heavy traffic, less parking space and a narrower road.
Lino Busuttil
Oct 2nd 2012, 16:05
Get us a new Minister on this sector please dear PM. The Maltese deserve better in 2012 and it seems too much destruction of trees will be done even in the last remaining months of his tenure. Gatt's projects have too much collateral demage! He is a truly city boy and has no appreciation of trees and nature.
Get MEPA to recognize the situation of our island as regards trees and reverse the removal of the legislation protecting these trees immediately lest we end up like a concrete jungle everywhere.
joseph saliba
Oct 2nd 2012, 16:28
Now Mr Busuttil you make the political motive behind your protest very clear. If anything a minister takes the initiative for an embellishment project. Does not plan street alignments, plant, replant and destroy trees. If anything he faces controversial decisions where others fail and takes the blame from experts and dilettantes alike. Not to mention he might earn some votes (which is not the case here) from the grateful and insults from the ungrateful.
Mr Andrew Camilleri
Oct 2nd 2012, 17:46
Saliba: where is the political motive? i just cannot understand that simply because one complains about the way a minister acts, then there is a political motive. When are we going to grow up and start acting maturely, putting the blame or praise no matter what political shade the ministers are? Mr Busuttil's complaint is objective in a political sense. What does Saliba expect - that we all shut up and bow our heads to the minister? This is 2012 and not 1988 you know.
Antonio Anastasi
Oct 2nd 2012, 17:47
@Joseph Saliba, Theodore Roosevelt used to have a plaque on his desk which stated "The Buck Stops Here" meaning that he shoulders ALL responsibility for whatever happens under his tenure.
These projects do not happen blindly and even allowing for delegation, which shows good leadership, the final decision is of the person at the top.
The ministers had introduced what I think was a revolutionary Trees and woodland protection act of 2001 where all trees, with the exception of invasive ones, where protected, and the minister changed the same act in 2011 removing the protection from all trees unless in conservation areas.
B Grech
Oct 2nd 2012, 16:05
Well i have to ask...any chances for TM to add a second lane to the new Cirkewwa road?
R. Gauci
Oct 2nd 2012, 16:05
COMMON SENSE prevailed.
Charles Grixti
Oct 2nd 2012, 16:05
Cannot believe that they wanted to remove these beautiful trees. No wonder most of Malta is stark and dry looking.
Everyone is talking about making a U-turn but in this case it is a welcomed U-turn. The Maltese ought to make their voices vigoroulsy heard on tevery other project or policy that does not pass muster. U-turns instigated by public opinion means that democracy is still vibrant. Start to worry when public opinions and even demostrations have no effect on changing the mind of the State (as unfortunately is already happening in many places).
joseph saliba
Oct 2nd 2012, 16:34
"Start to worry when public opinions and even demonstrations have no effect on changing the mind of the State" Well said Mr Grixti. An epitome of sagacity.
Anthony A. Mifsud
Oct 2nd 2012, 15:54
More than any thing the minister is bending the rules again, he is famous for U Turns Issa ormai , il frogga sarett.
Ninu
Saviour Cachia
Oct 2nd 2012, 15:47
Jaqaw gejja xi elezzjoni generali? jaqaw il-Prim Ministru Lawrence Gonzi johrog fuq id-distrett tal-Isla.? jien ma ffiurmajtx petizzjonijiet, avolja Senglean nghix barra l-Isla, ghax ghidt hemm forsi xi raguni teknika ghala hemm bzonn is-sigar jinqalghu. Imma r-ragunijiet li ta l-Ministeru tal-Toroq veru waqqghuh ghaz-zufjett. Ghax jew kien hemm bzonn li s-sigar jiccaqilqu jew ma kienx hemm. Ma tistax tkun kredibbli. Tibdel id-decizjonijiet lejliet l-elezzjoni, bhalma kien il-kaz ta' l-irtirar tat-tenders tal-parkeggi pubblici. Jew ghandna gvern b'dirizzjoni jew le. Rebhet ir-rieda tal-poplu. X'gost u pjacir, bhalma rebhet fil-kaz tar-referendum tad-divorzju, minkejja li l-istess Prim Ministru vvota kontra r-rieda tal-poplu. Ara fil-kontijiet tad-dawl u l-ilma ivvota bil-qalb u hemm bqajna bihom, biz-zokk ma' saqajna, minkejja li s-survejs juru li l-gholi tal-hajja qed jolqot sewwa lil min jiflah, ahseb u ara min ma jiflahx. Meta se jsir djalogu ma' Gejtu Vella biex jiftah ghajnejn il-Prim Ministru u fil-budget li gej (!?) jaghtina disa' liri Maltin zjieda?
Charles Mangion
Oct 2nd 2012, 15:39
I hope it leaves enough space for the people to walk freely on the new pavemrnt and not taken by kiosk owners in summer and the road be closed in summer season
Antonio Anastasi
Oct 2nd 2012, 17:52
Charles Mangion, the pavement should remain the same as its now, which was not the case before the change of mind where it was going to be narrowed to make space for the wintering of the Dajhsa tal pas, which apparently are now going to be near the Macina.
Joseph Camilleri
Oct 2nd 2012, 15:32
U turns galore.
But don't be fooled, this is not to be mistaken for "bowing to public opinion", it is a question of pure political convenience. Just like the U turns on the privatisation of parking areas.
J Micallef
Oct 2nd 2012, 15:30
I just cannot understand why the trees cannot be an integral part of the road designs.
They offer shelter and filter our some of the air. They are pleasant to see, as we lack brown and greens badly.
With our fierce sun, these trees offer a free shelter...so why the heck do away with them???
I wonder what's goint to happen with the trees in Ta Xbiex. What is it that the planners and architects have agianst the trees?
Giov DeMartino
Oct 2nd 2012, 15:29
WE HAVE NO PROBLEMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
paul camilleri
Oct 2nd 2012, 15:24
what i cannot understand is why didnt the cousils tree people and the general public of Senglea complain when the plans were made public and i quote
"A full development application was submitted to Mepa and no objection was made to the replacement of the trees with others." unquote
so it seems to me that at the time no one was bothered if the trees stayed or went, it was only when someone decided to raise the issue after the fact.
James Tyrrell
Oct 2nd 2012, 17:25
Was a notice of the impending work put up in a prominent place in the area Paul or was it as sometimes happens forgotten about or hidden? A lot of the time the only indication that something is planned is when the workmen arrive!
Antonio Anastasi
Oct 2nd 2012, 17:56
Paul, you would be surprised. Most of the people we spoke to did not know about the project. Those that knew were not aware that the trees were going to be removed. All the people we spoke to, wanted the trees to stay.
paul camilleri
Oct 2nd 2012, 20:17
@ Tyrrell and Anastasi
All i can say sir is when they planned to re do the playing fileds in our area copy of the plans were sent to us by the council with Mepa approval stamped on it. although these works have not yet begun the residents have had ample time to suppliment other ideas which could be implimented before such works were to be carried out..
so maybe one should blame the local council for failing to keep the residents informed of how the development was to be carried out?
Antonio Anastasi
Oct 2nd 2012, 23:07
Mr>Camilleri,
" It is the legal obligation of the developer to inform the citizens of any projects. Farther to that there should also be clear signage advising that there is a project under consideration. these signs have to be clearly posted where people can see them and should include the PA permit number, and an brief explanation of what is being proposed.
You state "All I can say sir is when they planned to re do the playing fields in our area copy of the plans were sent to us by the council with Mepa approval stamped on it. "
You clearly state that you were not informed till AFTER MEPA had approved the project. If anybody did not agree with the project then it would have been too late to do anything about it.
Very convenient, but unfortunately its how we are starting to do things on this island.
paul camilleri
Oct 3rd 2012, 10:40
@ Mr Anastasi
Sir while it was approved by MEPA we still had time to object to the design and still can as works have not yet started and all this is because we simply recieved a plan, what did the residents in Senglea recieve??? according to you nothing, so Sir i say to you that it is the councils fault for not informing the people when they knew about it.
aldo Attard
Oct 2nd 2012, 15:21
There was no cruise liner berth at Senglea Point before Boiler Wharf was hurriedly taken away from their rightful Owners, who were made to suffer all the consequences.
J Farrugia
Oct 2nd 2012, 15:10
Power to the people back once again with the renegade master.
Gordon Farrugia
Oct 2nd 2012, 15:44
yes power to the people and the facebook petition we supported. Just like the parking issue - we need to make our voices felt - they won't do anything that will bring our ire (of course because elections are near!!!)
Mr Alexander Azzopardi
Oct 2nd 2012, 15:08
Serhu raskom li ser jibqaw hemm u il gvern ser ibaxxi rasu ghal raguni semplici hafna......
in nies zgur li apprezaw il fatt li ser jibqaw hemm biss in nies tismahom 5 snin shah!
Steve Aquilina
Oct 2nd 2012, 15:07
Yes , on the plans it is very clear that a lot of parking spaces will be lost.
J Micallef
Oct 2nd 2012, 15:46
Sometimes I think that it's better if everything is left as it is, and instead of these redicolous projects, we giv ethe place a good clean up and save the money.
After all, we are only getting shoddy work, which is finished behind schedule and costs way above the budget.
Antonio Anastasi
Oct 2nd 2012, 18:02
Steve Aquilina, you are right, those are the old plans.....now in their statement as reported above, they try and shift the blame by saying that there is going to be a loss of parking.
Till now you can park along most and on both sides of the promenade where the kiosks are. The refurbishment reduces the parking space to one side of the road and if i remember rightly to only part of the road.
@J.Micallef, sometimes I think that you are right.
Mr John Borg
Oct 2nd 2012, 15:04
I really, but REALLY, wish to know who was the idiot who proposed to remove them in the first place only to align the road?
Are we so lazy that we cannot even drive round a bend anymore but need roads to be straightened?
Gillian Snook
Oct 2nd 2012, 16:17
Well put Mr Borg.
I just hope the "few trees" which are still going to be moved will be dealt with professionally and not by those who THINK they know what they are doing.
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