I refer to the article ‘Tourists free to take walk on the wild side’, (The Sunday Times of Malta, August 28) about the Azure Window in Gozo. Dwejra is regularly in the news as it is dangerous for people to walk over the Azure Window (ignoring signs that it is forbidden and dangerous) or boating or swimming under it.

The window is geologically not sound and will collapse at some time in the future although nobody can predict when that will happen. The warning signs in English do not prevent tourists from walking over it and local fishermen decided to avoid the place some time ago.

The Azure Window is the main feature that attracts tourists to this spot and when the connecting piece of rock collapses all that will remain is a small rock island, of which there are several around Gozo and Malta. This tourist attraction will belong to the past.

There is a way to solve both fears at the same time by building a slender bridge 40 to 50 metres long like the ones used in the restoration of the Citadel, based on both sides on solid rock so the bridge will remain when the connecting stone collapses.

The actual safety problem will be solved and the tourist feature will be ‘bridged over’ to the future. An additional information board might explain the dynamic behavior of this kind of geological information.

Local geologists are surely capable of pointing out two stable points for the start and end of the bridge, one on the remaining rock and one on the mainland. They will have more difficulty to predict the moment when the Dwejra Azure Window will finally collapse.