Infrastructure Malta, tasked with national plans for road construction and infrastructure strategies, will not be responsible for Gozo, at least for the time being, the Times of Malta has learnt.
Sources said roads in the sister island would continue to fall under the responsibility of the Gozo Ministry. When Transport Ministry announced the setting up of the new agency last year, which was assigned the role previously held by Transport Malta, it had declared that all roads, including those in Gozo, would fall under Infrastructure Malta.
However, the sources said that Gozo Minister Justyne Caruana successfully argued that her ministry should remain responsible for roads there.
Subsequently, the Transport Ministry had to modify plans for Infrastructure Malta, which, the sources pointed out, was still insisting that it should ‘eventually’ also handle the Gozo road network.
“The Ministry for Gozo is currently entrusted with road development on the sister island,” a spokesman for Infrastructure Malta said when asked.
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He said the agency was collaborating with the Gozo Ministry “to provide its support in the existing investments…
