Vjal Kulħadd: €10 Million Investment in People-Centered Infrastructure

• 15 Sep, 2024 |

The Minister for Transport, Infrastructure, and Public Works, Chris Bonett, addressed a conference attended by various representatives from local councils and non-governmental organizations, focusing on a project aimed at fostering more sustainable mobility in local communities. This project is specifically designed to create the best infrastructure development plan, prioritizing more accessible roads for the benefit of all.

"Vjal Kulħadd" is a new scheme launched by Infrastructure Malta for local councils to collaborate with NGOs to propose ideas for transforming roads and public spaces within communities into safer, more accessible areas that meet the diverse needs of the public, enriched with more trees and greenery.

This €10 million investment, inaugurated by Minister Chris Bonett, aims to encourage local councils and NGOs to bring forward their ideas, supported by financial and technical assistance from Infrastructure Malta’s professionals.

"As a government, it is our duty to provide the best infrastructure so that future generations can enjoy a better environment than we inherited. This initiative is about exactly that. We are investing heavily to ensure our communities have the best spaces that encourage walking and cycling over car use. It’s time to start reducing car dependency, but for that, we need to build the right infrastructure — and 'Vjal Kulħadd' is set to make this happen," stated the minister.

Steve Ellul, the CEO of Infrastructure Malta, reaffirmed the agency's commitment to prioritizing people-centered infrastructure improvements. Besides enhancing road accessibility and safety for pedestrians, Mr. Ellul urged local councils and NGOs to focus on infrastructure that accommodates various modes of transport, especially cycling.

Mr. Ellul expressed optimism that this initiative would further integrate existing active mobility infrastructure, including cycling lanes, with new developments, aiming to reduce vehicle dependency. The scheme also promotes an increase in tree planting, a broader green environment, and better rainwater catchment systems.

The "Vjal Kulħadd" scheme will remain open for six weeks, with local councils encouraged to submit their proposals by October 30, 2024.

For more information on how to get involved, visit: vjalkulhadd.com.

Rebuilding 220 residential roads in 2021

• 19 Jan, 2022 |

Infrastructure Malta rebuilt 220 residential roads in 2021, completing four roads a week, one more than the weekly average of the previous year.

The seven-year national programme for better quality residential roads in Malta is now entering its fourth year as the agency is currently rebuilding another 100 streets, with plans to start works in several others in the coming months.

During 2021 Infrastructure Malta managed to increase resources for the upgrading of residential roads despite the concurrent implementation of several large-scale infrastructural projects, such as the Marsa Junction Project, the Santa Lucija Roundabout Underpass Project, the Gheriexem Road Promenade, the Qrejten Breakwater and Central Link Project. The agency also rebuilt and resurfaced many rural roads and maintained its ongoing arterial road maintenance programme.

During a visit to the ongoing reconstruction of L-Indipendenza Street in Zebbug, Infrastructure Malta explained that the 220 residential roads rebuilt in 2021 add up to some 52 kilometres of better-quality roads. Through this investment, thousands of families living in these streets and in others rebuilt during the previous two years have an improved, safer, environment in their neighbourhood.

In the 220 residential roads upgraded in 2021, Infrastructure Malta added or rebuilt 58 kilometres of footpaths and laid some 141 kilometres of new underground distribution networks, including water mains, sewers, stormwater systems, electricity cables as well as Internet and other telecommunication ducts. Workers finished the new roads with 121,552 tonnes of asphalt.

Where necessary, Infrastructure Malta’s road projects are incorporating new stormwater pipelines and catchments to prevent flooding and increase rainwater harvesting. During the last three years it installed more than 47 kilometres of stormwater pipelines, culverts and catchments in residential and arterial roads. It is also cleaning and upgrading existing systems in many other roads.

The agency is also implementing a long-term urban greening programme, with the planting of trees, shrubs and other plants in roadside landscaping areas and other open spaces.

The local roads that Infrastructure Malta rebuilt in 2021 include busy main streets in town centres, as well as other important roads connecting different localities, such as Il-Konvoj ta’ Santa Marija Street and Il-Belt Valletta Road in Mqabba, Manwel Dimech Street in Sliema, Abate Rigord Street in Ta’ Xbiex, Paola Road in Tarxien, Anton Buttigieg Road and Il-Hamsa u Ghoxrin ta’ Novembru Avenue in Zejtun, Fisher Street in Mgarr and Sant’ Anton Street, between Attard and Balzan.  

  
 
While this unprecedented investment in residential roads will continue in the coming months, Infrastructure Malta is also implementing other major projects, including the Kirkop Tunnels and Airport Intersection Project, the Luqa Junction Project and the Grand Harbour Clean Air Project. 

New 128-space public car park in Tarxien

• 17 Dec, 2021 |

Infrastructure Malta opened a new public car park next to the Saint Thomas More Middle School, in Tarxien. 

The 128-space parking is in Cikku Saliba Street, less than 200 metres away from the Tarxien Parish Church. Visitors and residents can leave their cars at this new parking and walk the rest of the way to the centre of the locality, reducing vehicle flows in the surrounding narrow streets. The parking area also includes new bus lay-bys, to improve road safety for the school’s students. It is also linked to the pedestrian and cycling underpass connecting Tarxien and Santa Lucija, which Infrastructure Malta built in 2020 as part of the Santa Lucija Roundabout Underpass Project. 

Works to convert this abandoned site into a car park started earlier this year. Infrastructure Malta laid underground cable ducts for a new lighting system and installed new stormwater pipelines, before building foundations and landscaping planters. The €350,000 investment was completed with a new asphalt surface, line markings and new lighting. 

After consulting the Tarxien Local Council, Infrastructure Malta embellished the parking area with 15 olive trees, 12 palm trees and 400 shrubs and other small plants. The agency’s contractors will continue watering and caring for these landscaped areas in the coming years. The parking also includes electric car charging points. 

Infrastructure Malta is committed to continue investing in improved infrastructure in all localities in Malta. As it continues its seven-year programme to rebuild hundreds of residential roads, the agency is also implementing other projects in collaboration with local councils, including new green areas and safer facilities for pedestrians, bus passengers and cyclists. 
 

Rabat parvis restoration completed

• 11 Aug, 2021 |

Infrastructure Malta completed a €350,000 project to restore and embellish part of the parvis around the Basilica of St Paul, in Rabat, with new paving, decorative lighting and mature olive trees.

Works started last year with the paving of part of the parvis, which used to form part of Ir-Repubblika Street, behind the Basilica. Rabat residents and tourists visiting the Basilica and St Paul’s Grotto beneath it, use this part of the parvis as a pedestrianised lane leading to Il-Kbira (Main) Street. The lane also leads to the square in front of the Basilica and Santa Rita Road, where a popular open market is held every Sunday morning.

After removing the damaged asphalt and concrete from the uneven surface of this lane, Infrastructure Malta levelled the ground with a suitable underlay material and restored its underground stormwater culverts and catchments. They then laid new rectangular, limestone paving slabs to restore the landscape of this pathway to the same fabric of other areas around the Basilica, whilst rendering it safe for pedestrians. Infrastructure Malta continued embellishing the pathway with the planting of 12 mature olive trees and three cypresses.

The agency continued the project in recent months with the installation of new architectural lighting and the the restoration of the 19th century arch leading to this pedestrianised area. In 1962, the arch was repaired with concrete, after part of it collapsed. This concrete eventually cracked and deteriorated, and the arch was once again at risk of collapsing. Infrastructure Malta removed the old concrete repairs and rebuilt it entirely in limestone, keeping to its original design. A stone cross and other sculptured ornaments that formed part of the original arch were reintegrated in the structure. The agency also installed a new wrought iron gate in a similar style to an older one on the other side of the Basilica’s grounds, which was restored as well.    

Infrastructure Malta discussed and coordinated all works with the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage and with the Rabat Parish which administers the Basilica, to safeguard the area’s heritage.

Infrastructure Malta accepts residents requests for new Dingli road

• 25 Mar, 2021 |

Following discussions with all stakeholders, Infrastructure Malta is accepting the requests of San Gwann Bosco Street’s families to optimise its plans for the new schemed road it is building between this street, Dahla tas-Sienja Street and Il-Museum Alley, in Dingli.

Infrastructure Malta is publishing a correspondence with representatives of these families, in which it confirms its acceptance of the seven requests they made. Read the full correspondence here. 

The residents' requests include a confirmation that land next to the new schemed road is not earmarked for development, a confirmation that no more carob trees will be uprooted to build the new road, the limiting of the new road’s width to eight metres, the adjustment of a corner (splay) of this new road to save a nearby tree, the erection of traditional rubble walls instead of limestone walls in San Gwann Bosco Street and in the new road, and the planting of more indigenous trees along the side of the new road. Infrastructure Malta discussed these requests with the authorities concerned and is taking all of them on board. 

The San Gwann Bosco Street residents’ proposal to plant trees along the sides of the new road will be discussed with the owners of the adjacent lands so that Infrastructure Malta can add at least 12 more mature indigenous trees in this area.

In his correspondence with the residents’ representatives, Ing. Fredrick Azzopardi, Infrastructure Malta’s Chief Executive Officer, noted that during the last few months Infrastructure Malta met representatives of all streets and areas around the new schemed road. It also held talks with all applicable authorities and with the Local Council. “We appreciate that whilst they would have preferred not to have the 2006 schemed road built in their area, families living in San Gwann Bosco are understanding that residents in other streets, including Dahla tas-Sienja Street and Il-MUSUEM Alley, have long been calling on the authorities to form this new connection, as confirmed by the Dingli Local Council’s decision earlier this week. Whilst we are compelled to remove the long-standing access difficulties faced by residents of these two streets, we are also determined to make sure that the construction of this new road will be turned into an opportunity for a better environment for residents in San Gwann Bosco Street as well,” Ing. Azzopardi said.

On Wednesday, Infrastructure Malta published copies of all permits and documents confirming that the road construction works it started on Monday are being carried out in accordance with applicable regulations, and that no works are being carried out illegally. These documents include a statement by the Planning Authority confirming that no development permits or notifications are required for the construction of schemed roads defined in the 2006 Local Plan, the Environment and Resources Authority’s nature permit for the uprooting of the three trees to make way for the new road, the Transport Malta permit for the road works themselves and the Dingli Local Council’s unanimous approval of the schemed road. The agency also referred to the Superintendence for Cultural Heritage’s public statement confirming that the works are being carried out with its approval and under its supervision, and that the remains of the Santa Duminka medieval chapel will not be threatened or affected by these works.

Infrastructure Malta also confirms that it has reached expropriation agreements with owners of the land where the road works are taking place. These written agreements signed by the owners of the lands where works have already started are in line with expropriation regulations. This means that the allegation that Infrastructure Malta carried out works in private property without owners’ permission is in fact a lie. These owners will be duly compensated in line with the valuations that have already been determined by the Lands Authority and communicated to them, as per applicable procedures. 
  
Last week the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal turned down a local organisation’s appeal against the Environment and Resources Authority’s permit for the uprooting of three trees in the site of the schemed street. In submissions to this Tribunal, the Environment and Resources Authority stated that the appellants did not have a juridical interest to make such an appeal. Furthermore, it reconfirmed its approval for the uprooting of the three trees, explaining that Infrastructure Malta was requested to plant 30 new trees in other nearby locations as an adequate compensation in line with applicable regulations. The tree-planting locations have already been defined by the same Authority.  

Residents in Il-MUSEUM Alley and other nearby areas in Dingli have long been calling for the formation of this schemed street to improve connectivity and to create a safer access to numerous residences, some of which are currently only accessible through a narrow lane that does not permit firefighting and other emergency vehicles to reach their homes.

Infrastructure Malta is planning to complete this new street in the next few months. 
 

Infrastructure Malta continues construction of new street in Dingli

• 22 Mar, 2021 |

Infrastructure Malta is continuing the construction of a schemed street connecting Dahla tas-Sienja Street, San Gwann Bosco Street and Il-Museum Alley, in Dingli. 

The agency had stopped these works soon after they commenced in October 2020 to discuss concerns raised by some individuals and organisations with the applicable authorities. During the last few months, it held talks with the Planning Authority, the Environment and Resources Authority and the Superintendence for Cultural Heritage to go through the plans and method statements of this road and ensure that they are implemented with the least possible adverse impacts on the area’s environment. It also continued talks with the owners of adjacent lands to discuss and conclude applicable expropriation terms.

In the meantime, last week the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal turned down a local organisation’s appeal against the Environment and Resources Authority’s permit for the uprooting of three trees in the site of the schemed street. In submissions to this Tribunal, the Environment and Resources Authority stated that the appellants did not have a juridical interest to make such an appeal. Furthermore, it reconfirmed its approval for the uprooting of the three trees, explaining that Infrastructure Malta was requested to plant 30 new trees as an adequate compensation in line with applicable regulations. In a separate submission following a site inspection, the enforcement and environment protection officers of this Authority denied allegations by third parties that Infrastructure Malta had uprooted trees illegally when works started in October.  

The Planning Authority also confirmed to the Tribunal that, in line with applicable regulations, there was no obligation for Infrastructure Malta to notify the Authority about its works in Dingli since the new street between Dahla tas-Sienja Street, San Gwann Bosco Street and Il-Museum Alley is schemed as per the Local Plan.

Residents in Il-MUSEUM Alley and other nearby areas in Dingli have long been calling for the formation of this schemed street to improve connectivity and to create a safer access to numerous residences, some of which are currently only accessible through a narrow lane that does not permit firefighting and other emergency vehicles to reach their homes. In a recent communication to Infrastructure Malta, the Civil Protection Department denied the allegation that it had told a local organisation there was no need to improve accessibility to emergency vehicles in this area.

As it does in all works close to archaeological remains, Infrastructure Malta is consulting the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage to make sure that a centuries-old abandoned building a short distance away from the new street’s alignment, which is believed to be the remains of a medieval chapel, is not adversely impacted by the required works. The construction of the new street does not necessitate the demolition or alteration of any parts of these historical remains. An archaeologist approved by the Superintendence will be monitoring all road works near this historical structure, to make sure it is adequately protected.

Infrastructure Malta is planning to complete this new street in the next few months. 
 

Rebuilding 3 streets a week in 2020

• 17 Mar, 2021 |

Infrastructure Malta rebuilt an average of three residential roads every week in 2020, providing a better environment outside the homes of thousands of families, whilst developing safer infrastructure for many other road users.

During a visit to ongoing works in Il-Forga (Forge) Street, in Naxxar, Infrastructure Malta announced that during the second year of its seven-year €700 million national plan for better quality residential roads, its contractors rebuilt a total of 155 streets. This adds up to more than 110 kilometres of reconstructed roads, in which the agency upgraded 215 kilometres of footpaths and laid some 370 kilometres of new underground networks, including water mains, sewers, stormwater culverts, electricity cables as well as Internet and other telecommunication cable ducts. To complete the reconstruction of these streets, workers used circa 352,000 tonnes of asphalt. 

At any one time, Infrastructure Malta coordinates the reconstruction of over 50 streets in different localities. Il-Forga Street is one of the streets that the agency is rebuilding this month. A large section of this half-kilometre street along the border between Naxxar and Iklin had never been formed and built before. In recent months, the agency completed the first phase of this road’s construction, erecting new retaining walls to support its structure and building new footpaths, before laying over 800 metres of new water and telecommunication networks. Workers also built a new stormwater system with new catchments and a 200-metre pipeline. The second phase of this road’s construction will be ready in the coming months. All works will add up to an estimated total investment of €1 million.

Infrastructure Malta is rebuilding another 13 residential roads in the Tas-Sgħajtar area in Naxxar during the next months. Works in three of these streets, Korfu Street, Il-Libja Street and Il-Marokk Street started this week. The other ten roads are Ic-Cili Street, Cipru Street, Gibilta Street, Il-Brazil Street, Il-Germanja Street, Il-Mithna Street, It-Tuffieh Street, L-Argentina Street, L-Ingilterra Street and Spanja Street.

Infrastructure Malta was established in 2018 to implement the Government’s nationwide plan for better quality, sustainable infrastructure. It has since invested unprecedented annual capital budgets exceeding €100 million in the upgrading of over 500 roads, the implementation of many of the most critical infrastructural priorities specified in the 2025 Transport Master Plan such as the Marsa Junction Project, the development of numerous maritime projects as well as a nationwide afforestation initiative with the planting of circa 30 new trees every day for the last two years.     
 

Upgrading 10 roads in Zejtun in 2 years

• 05 Feb, 2021 |

Infrastructure Malta invested over €7 million to rebuild ten roads in Zejtun, including some of the main access routes to this locality, during the last two years.

This month, the agency is completing the reconstruction of Il-Hamsa u Ghoxrin ta’ Novembru (25th November) Avenue, the principal road to Zejtun from Tal-Barrani Road, with the final landscaping and tree planting works. The rebuilding of Il-Kbira (Main) Street, in the centre of this locality, will be ready this month as well.

Il-Hamsa u Ghoxrin ta Novembru Avenue had been in a state of disrepair for many years. The roots of the two rows of tall trees along the sides of this road were pushing up and breaking the road surface, causing hazards to road users. Infrastructure Malta modified the road’s foundations to include two underground concrete walls serving as root barriers, to keep them from reaching the new asphalt surface. It also removed the stumps of trees that died in the past and planted 36 new Aleppo pine trees instead of them, to restore the road’s tree-lined landscape.

Infrastructure Malta also built a new segregated footpath behind one of the road’s rows of trees since it did not previously have any form of safe pedestrian access. Beneath the new road surface, the agency installed a new sewer, laid new water mains, replaced aerial electricity wires with underground cables and upgraded its stormwater catchments. The project also includes a new street lighting system to improve the road’s safety at night. 

Last year, Infrastructure Malta rebuilt Toni Zahra Road, another important road connecting Il-Hamsa u Ghoxrin ta’ Novembru Avenue with L-Ahhar Hbit mit-Torok Road (known as “tac-Cawsli”), towards Zabbar, which the agency rebuilt in 2019. The agency also reconstructed Il-Labour Road, a half-kilometre road in parallel with Il-Hamsa u Ghoxrin ta’ Novembru Avenue.

Infrastructure Malta carried out extensive maintenance and resurfacing works in Id-Dahla ta’ San Tumas Road, between Zejtun and Marsascala in 2020. During the same period, it completed reconstruction works in another four Zejtun streets, including Bugharbiel Street, Dwiemes Street, Taltas Street and part of Il-Faqqus Street, as well as another four rural roads within the limits of the same locality.

Through these works, Infrastructure Malta upgraded circa five kilometres of road surfaces, rebuilt six kilometres of footpaths, and laid over eight kilometres of underground networks, including water mains, sewers, Internet and other telecommunication ducts, electricity cables and stormwater culverts.

This investment in better quality infrastructure in Zejtun will continue in the next two years, with the reconstruction of several other roads. In fact, a few weeks ago, Infrastructure Malta started rebuilding Il-President Anton Buttigieg Road, another important one-kilometre access road along the southern side of this locality. It is also planning works in the second part of Triq il-Faqqus as well as other streets in the Hal Tmiem Housing Estate area.    

Infrastructure Malta was established in 2018 to coordinate and implement a national multi-million investment in higher quality, sustainable public infrastructure in Malta. This effort includes a seven-year, €700-million commitment to support local councils in the reconstruction of hundreds of residential roads for a better, safer environment outside the homes of thousands of families. In parallel with the implementation of major arterial road upgrades such as the Kirkop Tunnels and Airport Intersection Project (KTAIP) and the Central Link Project, the agency is currently also rebuilding more than 50 streets in different localities.  

The agency is also engaged in a long-term urban greening programme, planting more than 11,200 trees in 36 localities in 2020. This initiative is also benefitting Zejtun, where Infrastructure Malta planted 385 trees during the last two years, with another 776 planned for different areas of this locality in 2021. 

Santa Lucija residential roads upgrade underway

• 22 Jan, 2021 |

Infrastructure Malta is starting a €2 million project to rebuild over two kilometres of residential streets in Santa Lucija and to upgrade the Ta’ Garnaw Valley belvedere with a new walking and cycling track.

After improving the main access points to this locality through the 2019 reconstruction of Hal Luqa Road and the Santa Lucija Roundabout Underpass Project, which will be completed this month, the agency is now collaborating with the Santa Lucija Local Council to rebuild several streets in this locality. The main project works include the reconstruction of three long interconnected residential roads, extending almost two kilometres along the sides of Ta’ Garnaw Valley, namely Dawret it-Torri Street, Il-Prinjoli Street and Katerina Vitale Street. Infrastructure Malta will also be rebuilding another six smaller streets in the area as part of the same investment. 

Works started this week in Dawret it-Torri, which links Tal-Barrani Road with Tal-Prinjoli Street and with the Parish Church area in the centre of the locality. In the coming months, the project contractors will also rebuild Il-Prinjoli Street and Katerina Vitale Street. Infrastructure Malta is laying new underground networks, such as water mains, stormwater culverts, sewers and telecommunication cable ducts. Where necessary, it will also rebuild the streets’ footpaths and lay stronger foundations, before completing the reconstruction with new asphalt surfaces. 

In 2020, these three streets were used as diversion routes during the implementation of the Santa Lucija Roundabout Underpass Project nearby. Now that these diversions are no longer required, their reconstruction with new footpaths and other facilities will contribute to a better-quality environment outside the homes of many Santa Lucija residents. 

The upgrading of the one-kilometre belvedere along the southern side of Dawret it-Torri and Il-Prinjoli Street will include a new cycling and walking track and landscaped areas with many new trees. The Santa Lucija Local Council redesigned this outdoor green area in collaboration with Infrastructure Malta, to create a new recreational space for residents and a safer route for cyclists and pedestrians. In 2020, Infrastructure Malta transplanted several mature trees in the green areas of this belvedere, after they were uprooted from the Santa Lucija Roundabout Underpass site. Infrastructure Malta is continuing to take care of these transplanted trees and will soon embellish this area with the planting of many other indigenous trees and shrubs.

As part of its ongoing urban greening campaign, in recent years Infrastructure Malta planted over 1,700 new trees in Santa Lucija. It will soon be planting more trees in other areas of the locality. 

Through the project started this week in Santa Lucija, Infrastructure Malta will also rebuild other nearby streets, including Klematis Street, Dun M. Mifsud Street, Il-Gjacinti Street, Stella Maris Street, It-Tulipan Street and Ic-Cikwejra Street. During the last two years, through its national seven-year residential roads reconstruction project, Infrastructure rebuilt other streets in this locality, such as Bruka Street, Il-Gizimin Street, Znuber Street and Gardenja Street.       

Infrastructure Malta is committed to continue investing in better quality, safer and more sustainable public infrastructure in 2021 and beyond. 

Rebuilding 130 streets in one year

• 20 Feb, 2020 |

Infrastructure Malta completed the reconstruction of over 130 streets since it launched its €700 million investment for better quality residential roads in Malta a year ago.

The agency launched this programme towards the end of January 2019, a few months after its establishment in summer of the previous year. Whilst thousands of families in these 130 streets are already enjoying an improved environment outside their homes, works in another 50 residential roads are in progress or nearing completion. The rebuilding of 150 more roads is contracted to start in the coming months. 

These reconstruction works in over 330 streets add up to 110 kilometres of road, four times the length of the island of Malta. Rebuilding works start with the replacement or reinforcement of the underground networks supplying water, electricity, sewage, Internet and other telecommunication services to the area’s homes and businesses, as requested by the respective utilities and service providers. Some 370 kilometres of pipes, cables and cable ducts are being installed beneath the surface of these 330 roads.

Before laying new asphalt surfaces, Infrastructure Malta tests and consolidates the roads’ foundations and upgrades their footpaths, as necessary. In the first 330 streets, the agency’s contractors are building 215 kilometres of footpaths. Laying the new road surfaces over the strengthened foundations requires up to 352,000 tonnes of asphalt. 

This investment in better quality residential environments will continue in the next six years with the reconstruction of streets in many other neighbourhoods in Malta.  

For many years, the maintenance of residential roads in Malta was entrusted to local councils. However, this responsibility was never supported with adequate financial and technical resources and streets in many parts of Malta fell in disrepair. Infrastructure Malta’s residential roads reconstruction programme is lifting this burden off the local councils, giving them the opportunity to channel more funds to other community initiatives for the residents they serve.

The agency is determining the priority for the rebuilding of residential roads by consulting local councils and other stakeholders, by considering requests for assistance from residents and through technical assessments of their current condition. Other influential factors are the streets’ connection to other roads and areas within a locality as well as frequency of use. 

In scheduling works in each locality, Infrastructure Malta is also considering nearby activities that may be impacted by road works, such as tourist zones and schools. In long streets, such as It-Turisti (Tourists) Street, St Paul’s Bay and Il-Ferrovija l-Qadima (Old Railway) Street, in Birkirkara and Balzan, reconstruction works are being phased in sections so that road closures are kept to a minimum, with the least possible impact on pedestrian access.

Infrastructure Malta adopted applicable procurement procedures, including international calls for offers, to contract the services of 15 local and foreign road construction companies for this unprecedented road reconstruction investment. 

Besides these rebuilding works, in 2019 Infrastructure Malta also carried out extensive repair and maintenance works in another 85 roads. These upgrades include new footpaths, storm water catchments and pipelines and resurfacing works.