È stato annunciato che a Msida verrà costruito un ponte pedonale dove molte persone attraversano la strada, soprattutto studenti del Junior College.
Anche se i dettagli esatti non sono stati ancora annunciati dal governo e sembra che non ci siano piani definitivi, immagino che il progetto assomiglierà a questo video.
Si tratta di un progetto encomiabile che aumenterà notevolmente la sicurezza di tutti coloro che devono attraversare la strada, ridurrà i tempi di attesa al semaforo e preverrà anche un’ulteriore congestione del traffico causata dal semaforo.
Ben fatto, e spero che questo progetto non richieda molto tempo per essere completato.
Credo che siano necessari molti più ponti pedonali come questo intorno a Malta.
Video: Sì, ovviamente ho usato l’intelligenza artificiale per generare il video dopo aver aggiunto il ponte su un vecchio Google Street View dell’area.
https://v.redd.it/9kdgn7kzwg2g1
di MaltaGuy987
9 commenti
Fuck. That. Bridge.
What fucking cuntnuggets.
A bridge was part of the original proposal for the Msida Creek project and it was withdrawn after public opposition that pointed out that it will make the crossing less usable.
Now, a bunch of useful idiots gave the minister a reason to make things worse for thousands.
Idiots.
I hope the original crossing will remain.
Let’s wait for the first lorry to get stuck there and possibly plunge the island into gridlock.
As much as this looks like pedestrian infrastructure, it is only there to make life easier for cars. It means you can only cross exactly where it is, and they’re not building a bridge every 50 meters, so you’ll have to walk quite far if you want to cross the road. Also, it’s significantly more effort to walk all the way up the stairs and cross than it is to wait at a zebra or traffic light. And what will people in wheelchairs do? Or people on crutches?
Pedestrian bridges are expensive, unflexible, and a pain in the arse.
Thank goodness. No more stopping for pesky public transport users.
Imagine just making the walkable island generally more walkable eh?
We’re looking at this the wrong way, and celebrating it from the comfort of a car seat.
We are funnelling too much vehicular traffic in this area. It is not pedestrians that are causing vehicular congestion, but rather the excess of cars in a pedestrian-heavy area that is causing congestion. Policies and design which favour more cars come at the expense of pedestrians and all other road users because their trips on foot/bicycle/scooter are constantly getting longer, less practical, and potentially less accessible. Because car-centric design promotes car dependency and punishes all other road users, long term, more of these road users will switch to using cars and that will result in more traffic.
This design tells us: your time is more valuable when you get into a car; if you walk or cycle, here’s an extra 500m detour at every junction for you to find the next zebra crossing / pedestrian overpass; never mind that you’re in an urban core where pedestrians generally should be given priority.
Decades ago, regional road was built with one of its’ aims being to divert vehicular traffic to and from Valletta away from Msida’s core and the Pieta waterfront. And yet in 2025, when other cities have shown us how urban mobility should work in these spaces, we’ve decided that vehicular traffic should pass in greater volumes and with greater priority through the heart of Msida.
The actual original plans from Infrastructure Malta had shown 3 bridges – all with stairs and lifts and not a single ramp. Any potential space for ramps was instead dedicated to car lanes and parking. Beside the inconvenience of such a design (a 20m crossing vs stairs-bridge-stairs) for everyone who is not crossing this area by car, TM’s track record with the bridges at Marsa where lifts are out of order more often than not, does not augur well for pedestrians.
Then we can do our usual routine of scratching our heads wondering why almost everyone chooses to drive everywhere in this tiny island-city.
God I hate how car centric malta is continuously becoming. Fuck cars and fuck our individualistic capitalist mentality