Traffic jams as hitch holds up Corradino road resurfacing
Traffic along busy Corradino Hill has been limited to one lane because resurfacing works due to have been completed by 6 a.m. were delayed.
Transport Malta said a technical hitch had held up the work
It urged motorists to proceed with caution and apologised for the inconvenience.
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Keith Cauchi
Jan 24th, 14:22
Corradino hill has gone from bad to worse. Just yesterday, Police were blocking traffic flow for cars coming from Triq il-bacir (Road at MCAST's rear), forcing that traffic to merge with other traffic incoming from Marsa and go... yes you guessed it: up Corradino Hill! As if it wasn't enough that it was a single lane!
Oh btw, Toqob Malta has finally started resurfacing Triq il-Bacir wonder why ;)
Victor Pulis
Jan 23rd, 16:41
Hitches? with TM? you must be joking!
Herbert Caruana
Jan 23rd, 15:46
Malta desperately needs an underground metro public transport system since traffic is aggravating by the day. Big cities abroad have tackled this problem by going underground. This should be less complicated than the proposed Malta-Gozo underpass. Traffic has become a social issue and Government should try to tap EU funds for such a project. Travel time would be highly minimized.
Norman E Grech
Jan 23rd, 16:03
Dak jonqosna!
What Malta needs is a proper assessment of importation of vehicles and control, not to mention population!
Our size is what it is and I for one would welcome innovative workable ideas to decrease our population!
Having a negative birth-rate is a good thing as the 'working to old age population ratios' will even out in the longer-to-immediate term!
George Tabone
Jan 23rd, 12:41
I think that policemen should be placed in Marsa near traffic lights and not at the roundabout of Paola HIll (MCAST). They should be situated there for the simple reason to urge drivers who are very slow to press their accelerator. Last week there was no cars waiting on the traffic lights direction to Dicembru 13. Disgrace...lights are green and you find someone still to change gear.
Joe Tanti
Jan 23rd, 11:39
It-tort tal-labour ghax 30 sena ilu ma hadux hsieb jibnu toroq ahjar.
E. Azzopardi
Jan 23rd, 11:15
NO hitches. Promises must be kept, whatever. And this is only surfacing a few metres of road.
What will happen with the Kappara roundabout and the Gozo tunnel?
J.C. Borg
Jan 23rd, 11:34
Qatt kont sejjer xi mkien u hadt puncture??? Wasalt fil-hin li xtaqt??? Q.E.D.
John Zarb
Jan 23rd, 11:55
Mela x'gej fil-Kappara roundabout????
Tony Borg Borg
Jan 23rd, 15:28
E. Azzopardi inti kollox jigik sewwa mill-ewwel. Kull m'ghandek fid-dar dejjem hadem sewwa?
j brincat
Jan 23rd, 10:46
If PL is elected to power one of its priorities should be this area which is a mayhem EVERY MORNING!
One way of easing the congestion is a subway for MCAST students which every morning make the traffic lights look like a Xmas tree.
Another is to do away with the bus lane in front of One and 13th December Road - at least until 9.30am!
jb
Norman E Grech
Jan 23rd, 16:13
In essence, whilst your suggestion is a good one, doing away with that bus lane during the rush hour will create another traffic built up else-where! This is a vicious circle!
How can you pump 20 pints of blood into a person when he only can take up to 10?
Too many people, too many cars! The alternative is to turn all the space of our rock into roads! But is that how we wish to live?
Malcolm Ellul
Jan 23rd, 10:44
If transport Malta and the Gov plan to build a flyover in marsa and kappara main roads, half of the problem in traffic gems are solved. and what not planning to do and underground service in the major traffic and busy parts of Malta or a tram line like other countries.
Why the gov never thought about different possibilities to reduce traffic problems in Malta?
Why all this stress in traffic
George Tabone
Jan 23rd, 12:32
it is very simple Malcolm, flyover will cost a lot of money. All they have to do is to make a viability study to check whether digging a tunnel under the road so that the cars coming from Marsa direction Addolorata road will go through this tunnel and like that traffic coming from Paola Hill and Paola Square will have lesser waiting time on traffic lights. Has this possibility ever been explored?
Ivan Tabone
Jan 23rd, 10:30
/cont...
TM has today's traffic to blame and someone should shoulder responsibility...oh wait...we're in Malta...forget that
Let's hope someday a solution is found for the enormous problem which is the South in/outbound traffic!
Malcolm Ellul
Jan 23rd, 10:46
Yeah an idea would be fly overs in marsa for sure.. the problem is how much time they are going to spend building it? 5 years ?
Ivan Tabone
Jan 23rd, 11:07
Probably 5 as a minimum. Add another 2 years for studies, 2 years for permits and another 3 years of hitches. By that time I'm not sure whether we'll have helicopters instead of cars, making this project completely useless.
John Borg
Jan 23rd, 11:48
With power stations promised to be up and running within 2 years means that a fly-over can be completed in 1 month including all studies, permits and geological tests required
Ivan Tabone
Jan 23rd, 10:29
Traffic to/from South seems to be a never ending problem. And it's not only the TM hitches that affect it. Yesterday there was a queue from St Venera tunnels just because of a bumper to bumper accident and the drivers, stupidly, stopped in the middle. Also, it is good to note the lack of discipline from us drivers.
/cont...
Jonathan Zammit Lapira
Jan 23rd, 10:28
Transport Malta hija falliment iehor ta' GonziPN!!!!!! Billi tiskuza ruha ma tbiddel xejn milli morna tard ghall-ezamijiet u ghax xoghol!!!!!
Imbaghad xi nghidu ghal dak il-pulizija li jkun qed jikkontrolla it-traffic lights ta' hdejn ic-cimiterju ta' l-Addolorata!!!!! M'ghandux nitfa sens go mohhu. It-traffic li jkun gej minn triq Aldo Moro u Dicembru 13, ihallieh jizdied bil-minuti!!!!!!!
John Zarb
Jan 23rd, 11:51
Mhux talli jhallieh wieqaf ghal hafna hin it-traffic li jkun gej mid-direzzjoni tal-Marsa bla ma jaqleb is-switch ghall-ahdar biex dawk li jkunu sejrin lejn Bulebell imorru fil-hin, talli mohhu jkun biss li jara li jkun hemm "flow" tajba tat-traffic ghal dawk li jkunu gejjin minn Rahal il-Gdid BISS. Anki lil dawk jinsa li jkunu nezlin minn tal-Barrani!!!!
Stephen Farrugia
Jan 23rd, 10:18
Oh it seems to me that 'sorry' seems to be the 'easiest-way-out' word.
In today's puntata of the transport saga we see the protagonist [Mr.Transport Malta] receiving the much coveted title of 'THE HITCH OF THE HITCH.
Joseph Borg
Jan 23rd, 10:13
Don't worry! We're used to it. 17 years to build Materi Dei, 3 years to build a power station, months or years to get a permit. Why bother coordinating a small project to resurface an arterial road?
Omar Xuereb
Jan 23rd, 09:24
U Iva. No Problem Transport Malta, we only arrived half an hour late to school, half an hour late to exams, one hour late at work. , U IVa. we only added some stress to our children waiting in the car and panicking that they are going to arrive late to school, and as usual the sister asks, WHY ARE YOU LATE THIS MORNING KIDS? U MY POVRA TFAL RESPONDS, CAUSE WE WERE STUCK IN TRAFFIC. HAHA! U IVA!!!!
Jean Karl De Bono
Jan 23rd, 09:05
Can someone tell us what happened to the so pompous TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT TASK FORCE which had to solve all traffic problems.
Karl Borg
Jan 23rd, 08:53
so what else is new?
Stephen Spiteri
Jan 23rd, 08:49
Transport Malta, kindly inform us where you carried out one single project without a single technical hitch....
Michelle Attard
Jan 23rd, 08:46
Our roads are one large disaster for traffic. 1 hour to get from St Paul's Bay to B'Kara this morning. Naxxar and B'Kara bypass were totally jammed, yet not one traffic policeman in sight.
C Rogers
Jan 23rd, 09:31
And what did you want the Traffic policeman to do? Pick up the cars and deposit at Destination?
Philip Grech
Jan 23rd, 09:54
Thank God for that, it would have taken you two hours if there was one.
Michelle Attard
Jan 23rd, 11:38
@ C Rogers
First of all, why the sarcasm?
Whenever traffic police are present at roundabouts, both in Naxxar and B'kara bypass, the traffic flow is eased tremendously. The police allow several cars from one direction to flow without interruption. Having to give way every time a car is going around the roundabout causes tailbacks. I use this route daily and know what a big difference police make.
Emanuel Farrugia
Jan 23rd, 08:43
"Transport Malta said a technical hitch had held up the work".
Veru l-iskuzi jkunu lesti fil-komma min-naha ta' 'Transport Malta'. Din hi d-direzzjoni min-naha tal-konsulenti li ghandha 'Transport malta.
Emanuel Farrugia - TARXIEN
Mr Joe Camilleri
Jan 23rd, 08:16
Malta is full of road technical hitches every morning.
Please choose the reason of your report below: