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Infrastructure Malta has gone ahead with the uprooting of old trees in Triq in-Nutar Żarb, Attard, despite protests by residents and environmentalists who claimed they have 30 days to contest the permit. Workers turned up at the site early in the morning and started preparing to pull down the 70-year-old ficus trees, removing branches and loading them onto a truck. One of the trees just as it was uprooted. The uprooting of trees underway. Photo taken from resident Alfred Baldacchino's window on Thursday afternoon. But nearby residents and members of environment and civil society groups such ...

Two weeks have passed since this newspaper exposed Infrastructure Malta and their expropriations sham. Having accustomed us to interminably long press releases

Four bids have been received in answer to the request for proposals – three are for bored tunnels and the other is for an immersed structure. Azzopardi said this alternative, submitted by the only Maltese consortium, had not been rejected because IM had been advised that restricting the proposals to bored tunnels might give rise to appeals that would delay the tendering process. He explained that IM’s conceptual design was for a 14-kilometre horseshoe-shaped tunnel running underground and under the seabed between l-Imbordin, in St Paul’s Bay, and a road near Kenuna Tower, in Nadur. But ...

14km horseshoe-shaped tunnel to connect Malta and Gozo proposed Photo: Miguela Xuereb The proposed horseshoe-shaped 14km tunnel to connect Malta and Gozo is not a final design. The proposed tunnel will connect Manikata close to the St. Paul’s Bay bypass and a road in the vicinity of Kenuna Tower in Gozo. In a Gozo Affairs Committee meeting, Infrastructure Malta CEO Ing. Fredrick Azzopardi explained that after a number of studies and Environmental impact assessments these roads were chosen due to their capacity of accommodating large volumes of traffic. He also explained that the design allo...

Infrastructure Minister Ian Borg has hit back at critics of the pomp with which the Marsa Junction road works project was inaugurated, arguing that similar events during Nationalist administrations cost a lot more. In a Facebook post on Monday, Borg said that the ceremony for the €70 million Marsa Junction project, held earlier this month, cost taxpayers €45,480. He said that was less than one-third the €141,771 spent to inaugurate the €1.2 million renovation of St George’s Square in Valletta in 2009 and half the €80,123 spent to inaugurate a new €10 million bus terminus outside...