Updated 4pm with PN statement
Plans to expand the Mrieħel bypass with a new flyover are being quietly moved forward by Infrastructure Malta, Moviment Graffitti said on Saturday, in what it described as the roads agency's "standard way of operating."
The proposed expansion will take up more than three football pitches' worth of agricultural land – 20 tumoli - which is outside the development zone and "forever destroy farming in the area", Graffitti warned.
It will also require authorities to destroy a €1 million pedestrian footbridge built and installed above the bypass just two years ago, according to plans which the NGO showed