St Paul’s Bay bypass lane re-opened after nine years
The Malta Transport Authority announced the re-opening of the St Paul’s Bay bypass southbound carriageway – which has been closed for the past nine years – yesterday after the “certified completion of works” in a property adjacent to the bypass.
The ADT said the inner lane of the southbound carriageway had been retained closed to vehicular traffic as a precaution while buttressing works on the property were being certified.
Part of the road had collapsed back in 2000 in a landslide due to works on the abutting site that belonged to Polidano Brothers.
The property itself was first to be developed into a language school, then into a home for the elderly, but this was refused by the planning authority in 2002 because the building would rise above the bypass.
When the site collapsed, MEPA auditor Joe Falzon’s report into the landslide found MEPA had not taken any action against the developers, insisting Polidano should be held responsible to restore the road.
Since then however, the road was never re-constructed because Polidano were now constructing three-storey high walls intended for development into a car park.
Despite the application still pending at MEPA, the authority allowed the ADT to build fin walls – abutting the bypass – as support for the road.
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