500 families in Baħrija are prisoners in their own homes because of a lack of co-ordination between Transport Malta, the Water Services Corporation and Rabat Local Council while a new sewerage system is built, Nationalist MP Antoine Borg said in Parliament this evening.

He said there was no doubt that the new sewerage system was needed. Indeed, it should have been built earlier.

But the inconvenience caused to residents by the closure of roads and the maze of diversions was exaggerated.

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"Residents and businesses are suffering because of a lack of coordination," Mr Borg said. Rabat local council was not even consulted. 

It was so difficult to reach Baħrija at present that at one time, people needed to go to Rabat to direct an ambulance to get there, he said.  

He said the project was plodding along at a rate which was far too slow and deadlines were being repeatedly pushed back.

"Why should a project of 2.5km of pipe-laying take 16 months at least?" he asked.

Meanwhile the residents could not get on with their normal life. They were wasting hours just to get in and out of Bahrija through long diversions on poor roads. 

And businesses were ending up without their suppliers.

The authorities needed to get their act together to ease the residents’ hardships, he insisted.  

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