It is clear to all residents and pedestrian users of Vajringa Street, Victoria that the traffic situation has become unbearable. A street a few metres wide cannot keep serving as Victoria’s ring road. The last nail in the coffin was in the beginning of the year when works started on Republic Street and only God knows when this road will be back on the network.

Having multi-tonnage trucks, merchandise trailers, public transport buses, coaches, mixers and all imaginable heavy traffic damaging our buildings, polluting us residents and children attending the primary school is unacceptable.

In a normal world Vajringa Street would have been pedestrianised a decade ago, protecting its unique characteristics.

What baffles me is that at the planning stage for the redoing of the Mġarr- St Lawrence road within the Ten-T Projects Programme with 85 per cent of the costs covered by the European Union, the ring road around our town was never considered. It would have made much more sense to invest the money in building a ring road instead of squandering it on state-of-the-art concrete pavements! But we are in Gozo and no one cares!

Nonetheless we residents will keep all the above mentioned authorities personally responsible should our health deteriorate and any accidents to persons or property occur. Get the planners and engineers going and solve the problem. We are stuck with unacceptable, frustrating and dangerous traffic problems. We cannot wait any longer. Get busy and offer sensible solutions before another day goes by, and someone is seriously hurt. Or is this another shout in the wilderness?