We've got roads too in the south!

This is Malta. It takes years to implement a plan. Then it takes years to study the plan. It then takes years to decide whether the plan should be trashed or executed.

Then it takes a long time for the Government's construction workers to actually work between their sweet little breaks; resting and basking on their tools.

But my argument focuses on the Roads Department, where it seems as if logic is a mystery word. There's a road between Fgura and Zabbar/beginning of Cottonera, known as Triq il-Foss.

This road is parallel to the Zabbar Road and can actually lessen the traffic load in Zabbar Road. The thing is, a lot of drivers avoid driving through it because they fear that their car will fall to pieces!

What a state it is in! What a shame! You find garbage everywhere, thrown by our fellow Roman Catholic Maltese - competing to have a second Maghtab in the south.

The roads themselves are a total disaster. Since the first time I came from Australia in the 1990s to now - 15 years later - it's still in the same state.

Why can't we grow up and realise that patching roads is something that is not even done in Afghanistan any more! There was once works going on ahead about three years ago, but after the September rainstorms, nothing else happened, and the works were left half abandoned.

Our hard-working Fgura Mayor Darren Marmara has been pleading and sending reminders to the responsible ministry to allow him  to work, convert and sustain this road... but all he gets back is nothing.

Not only can this be a beautiful road for jogging if wide pavements were made, since it is surrounded by beautiful fields, but it will also decrease the large amount of traffic in the parallel road to it - from Mina Hompesch to Labour Road (known as Garden Road).

Why is it that the south is always forgotten when it comes to improving our daily needs? We pay as much in taxes as others, and what do we get? Just development in Sliema, St Julian's, Mellieha, Pembroke - which we do benefit from - but we do not live in.

Can't the responsible ministry pull its socks up and take care of such main roads in the south such as Triq il-Foss, Labour Road (Garden Road) Zabbar, and also roads that lead to Marsascala?