The first 24 of 70 beams that will form the deck of the first flyover at the Marsa junction project were unloaded at the Grand Harbour, a short distance away from the project site, this weekend.

The €70 million project will be finalised by end of 2020.

Each concrete pre-stressed beam is 26 metres long, weighing 36,000 kilos (36 tonnes).

The other straight beams of this and other flyovers will be produced by the contractors in a temporary pre-stressed beams plant being set up within the project site.

The curved steel beams of the second flyover are being produced in Turkey and will be on their way to Malta in the coming months.

These two connected flyover structures will form the new direct link between Triq Giuseppe Garibaldi and Triq Aldo Moro.

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A third flyover structure will eventually be connected to the first structure as well, to link Triq Aldo Moro with Vjal Santa Lucija, forming the tallest flyover on the island.  

A render of how the Marsa Junction will look once finished by the end of next year.

Meanwhile work is going ahead full-steam on site, with Infrastructure Malta currently focused on the construction of the 14 pillars that will support these two flyovers.

This weekend, workers prepared the foundations of the last three columns, towards Triq Garibaldi.

Excavation and concrete works are continuing day and night so that part of Triq il-Gvern Lokali which was closed on Friday night can be reopened by 5am on Monday, avoiding unwanted congestion for road users during the week.

The beams that arrived in Malta this weekend will start being laid over the 14 columns soon, Infrastructure Malta said.   

The flyovers and over 12 kilometres of new or reconstructed lanes, grade-separated at three different levels, will create direct northbound and southbound connections between Triq Aldo Moro, Vjal Sir Paul Boffa, Vjal Santa Lucija, Triq Giuseppe Garibaldi and Triq il-Marsa.

The project will see the end of  traffic lights waiting times, and related congestion emissions, for over 100,000 road users who travel through this junction every day.

The new multi-level intersection includes the highest, the longest and the widest flyover structures ever built in Malta.

At four storeys high, the junction will boast the island's tallest flyover

The tallest section will rise over four storeys to surpass a lower flyover beneath it, and the two longest ones, extending over 400 metres, will connect Triq Garibaldi and Vjal Santa Lucija to Triq Aldo Moro.

The widest of the seven structures will include four vehicle lanes, forking into two different flyovers, each with two lanes.