I’ve made some more extensive reading, thinking and analysis about the government’s proposed plans called “Malta in Motion”. The Labour government has given up on metro plans and is instead proposing to build just one railway-line from the airport to Saint Paul’s Bay.
There is no plan to reduce traffic and get cars off the road. The railway plan is a simple plan that is addressed to specifically remove the traffic bottlenecks of the airport. The railway will be built in 15 years at a cost of €2.8 billion.
The above-ground railway has been designed to look as if it will pass through or over Maltese residential buildings – this is not innovative or genius – this is Third-World infrastructure and the Labour government will take us back to the Third World with a massive project that will fundamentally not solve the traffic problem.
You can watch below, a feature video below by the Chinese press trying to glamorise an above-ground train that passes straight through an apartments-building.
Separately, the Labour government has published a video of how the “Malta in Motion” plan will work. It features a young woman who boards the railway carrying a folding bicycle. After finishing her trip with the railway-line, she is supposed to ride her folding bicycle because the government didn’t think about an extensive metro and your still stuck with the same problems of before.
We are going back to Third-World.
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