It was parliamentary session 588, held on 7 December. Since then various ministers and governments have changed but the situation has remained the same. Last May the case was taken up again by MP David Agius, who had asked the then Transport and Communication Minister Censu Galea when the road work would be carried out and yet again the reply was: “I am informed that the road has been included in the ADT’s construction programme and that work will be carried out according to the authority’s priority list.”

No roadwork has been carried on such street however. Moreover, there are a couple of bizarre facts about the road which, so far, have not been clarified by the Transport Authority (ADT) despite the fact that The Malta Independent asked for this information well over a month ago. A number of maps, including those of the Malta Environment and Planning Authority, seem to plot the road wrongly.

The maps show Ferdinandu Inglott Street as a wide stretch of road that connects Zebbug Road to Oliver Agius Street. The way the street is featured in the maps gives the impression that the road provides an alternative route to the Attard bypass.

Yet, an on-site inspection revealed none of this. Ferdinando Inglott Street is just another narrow road that is part of a network of small village streets. Furthermore, in the middle of what should be Ferdinandu Inglott Street sits an old dilapidated farmhouse and this stands in the way of Ferdinand Inglott Street being connected to the Zebbug bypass.

The matter becomes a little more complicated when one attempts to drive towards Oliver Agius Street, to which Ferdinandu Inglott Street is supposed to be connected. In reality between these two roads there is a cultivated field.

The problem, some villagers explained, is that the area’s road network cannot take the volume of traffic generated in the neighbourhood, especially since a number of apartment blocks have been developed in an area mostly made up of villas or town houses. The congestion created by the construction lorries and school vans tending to a nearby kindergarten is impossible, a neighbour complained. “There are various times during the day during which an ambulance could not make it through in an emergency.”

Such factors and the complaints made by these villagers to the various authorities have proved to be in vain. “We have spoken to the mayors and to our MPs but nobody seems to have a clue as to why work has never been carried out here or when it will start,” one woman complained.

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