Photo: Chris Sant FournierPhoto: Chris Sant Fournier

May I comment on the ‘article’ titled ‘Strait Street sees red’ (August 30).

In my opinion, the article is full of contradictory statements.

First there is the statement of a “return to the ‘good old days’” and then the intended celebration of “its infamous heritage”.

A paragraph below one reads that it will celebrate its “illustrious past” as the island’s “vice capital”. What is so illustrious in vice?

What is really in store for our beloved Valletta?

I have had the opportunity to mention that, if we are to bring life to and preserve dignity in our Valletta through the regeneration of Strait Street we must make of this narrow and potentially trading and residential zone a bohemian area and certainly not a watering place.

I repeat what I, and many others, have always sustained. If we are to take Strait Street back in time let it be to pre-war not war/post-war times. That is, a time when Strait Street was a residential place to more than a handful of the best families in Valletta while the rest was taken by the best law/medical/commercial firms in Valletta.

Taking Strait Street back to war/post-war times will be attempting to bring back the “good old days” (sic) of brothels, closed houses, drunkards and general mayhem.

Then there is the factor of parking/traffic in Valletta during this longish five-day period. But that, of course, is another issue which the article ignored completely.

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