Who is responsible for the hill leading down to Chadwick Lakes – the government, or Rabat or Mtarfa local council? Whoever it is has been rather remiss. Last year the weeds and thorns growing profusely along the sides were not cleared, and apparently they are not going to be removed this year either. The road has become so narrow now, because of all this unwanted growth, that in some sections of it the weeds and thorns scrape against the sides of cars being driven down or up the hill. There is hardly anywhere along it where two cars can pass each other in opposite directions.
Burning eyesore
Can either the government or the Żejtun local council do something about this eyesore of a burnt container and many other things, like all the concrete blocks, in Triq il-Ħotba, limits of Żejtun? They have been there long enough now.
Smokescreen
Gozo Channel should invest in better signs and alerts calling on drivers not to switch their engines on before the ramp is opened. Impatient drivers tend to ignore the small signs not to start their cars before the vessel berths. Passengers returning to their cars last week complained of very strong exhaust fumes.
On again, off again
The lights at the Marfa pier are sending tourists and locals there after sunset ballistic. The one in the middle of the pier seems to be no longer functioning, whereas the one at the far end goes off and comes on for half an hour and then off again for at least 10 minutes. This situation has been going on for a number of days, after it had been seen to a few months ago.
St Paul’s Bay’s main road in terrible shape
A long stretch of the main road in St Paul’s Bay, as one heads towards Xemxija from the post office, is in horrendously bad shape, with a pitted surface not even worthy of an out-of-the-way country road. The craters in the tarmac are not only potentially damaging to cars but create a collision hazard as drivers seek to avoid them in this fairly narrow street. Not only that, but poor residents have to put up with an increase in noise levels as heavy vehicles such as trucks and buses – and the road is on a main bus route – slam into the pot holes. Some houses even shake when that happens. The road, which passes in front of the local council, needs urgently to be redone. Even more so because it is used by hundreds of tourists every day heading to the beaches and the Gozo ferry terminal.
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