A tender for the rebuilding of some 120 residential roads is to be issued in the next few weeks as part of the €700 million investment promised by the government, Infrastructure Minister Ian Borg said.
Speaking during a visit to the newly rebuilt Vjal ix-Xarolla in Żurrieq, the minister said these roads had never been adequately built and completed with an asphalt surface.
“It is not acceptable that we still have families living in areas which do not have an adequate road infrastructure, especially in a country like ours, which boasts of extraordinary economic progress,” he said.
The tendering process, he said, would being completed this year so that all the roads could be upgraded in 2019. The 120 roads in question were not identified.
Vjal ix-Xarolla was rebuilt in a €1.8 million project to transform it into a new two-way road connecting this locality to Safi and Kirkop, building a roundabout, and a segregated service road for safer access to the area’s residents in the process.
The arterial road and the adjacent service road include a 0.5-kilometre cycle lane, over one kilometre of new pavements, five pedestrian crossings and several new parking spaces for residents.
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