Hotelier and construction magnate Angelo Xuereb has proposed building a bridge between Salina and Qawra to ease traffic flows in the area of Kennedy Grove.

With the upgrade of the Coast Road well under way, Mr Xuereb thinks the government is still in time to consider the creation of another access point to Qawra.

His idea is a low, 200-metre bridge with an underlying car park that does not encroach on the salt pans. Since the seabed is shallow, the possibility of having a number of pillars would reduce the cost of this bridge.

He said that although the Coast Road was being widened, something he described as a “much needed and important investment”, traffic flows at the intersection of the road that leads to It-Telgħa t’Alla u Ommu would still be compromised by a bottleneck. This would create long traffic jams, even from farther back than the Coastline Hotel. 

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