It has been announced that a pedestrian bridge will be built in Msida where many people cross the road, especially Junior College students.
While the exact details have not yet been announced by the Government and it seems there are no finalised plans, I am imagining that the project will look something like this video.
This is a commendable project that will greatly increase the safety of everyone needing to cross the road, reduce waiting time at the lights, and also prevent additional traffic congestion caused by the lights.
Well done, and I hope this project does not take long to be completed.
I believe many more pedestrian bridges like this are needed around Malta.
Video: Yes, obviously I used AI to generate the video after adding the bridge on an older google streetview of the area.
No connection to the Government or Transport Ministry whatsoever. This is just my work as I imagine the bridge would be (similar to the Marsa one), final project may vary significantly from this.
https://v.redd.it/9kdgn7kzwg2g1
Posted by MaltaGuy987
16 Comments
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A bridge was part of the original proposal for the Msida Creek project and it was withdrawn after public opposition that pointed out that it will make the crossing less usable.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
Hello moms with babies, hello elderly people and hello people with disabilities
This is ridiculous. It’s one of the reasons there was an uproar against this project back in 2020. They dropped it, only to bring it back now that it’s almost finished. Deceitful as usual.
It’s car infrastructure disguised as pedestrian infrastructure. It won’t work for everyone. It wouldn’t be half as bad if they had to also provide a level crossing, but we know it’ll end up being either or.
Moreover, it’ll be much higher than what you’re seeing here. 7m is the minimum clearance that TM insist on, similar to that disaster in Marsa. That’s over 2 stories high.
I can see a lot if criticism, how many of you lot are non-drivers? Just out of sheer curiosity.
Is everything bad for you dumbfucks? This is needed in so many places. Why stop traffic for something you can easily do this way.
Plus if it rains you end up soaking wet to arrive to school. Now that is solved.
Stop whining virgins
FUGLY
I like the idea but seriously do you use AI for everything?
Thank God … This is exactly what i suggested some time ago and got shit for it here from all the negative snowflakes on this sub … Up yours.