Last summer Dr. Austin Gatt suggested a future episode for the series Altered Statesmen showing that he likes television. Perhaps he also watches the series Megastructures. One thing is for sure it is very unlikely that the Manwel Dimech Bridge will ever feature on this series.
I have been inconvenienced greatly by this project. Everyday I am reminded of the things that are wrong with the PN administration and which have to be corrected. First of all the most efficient and cost effective way to construct this type of bridge is make it out of steel. It is too costly and time consuming to build the form and shuttering to cast the bridge in concrete. Likewise the casting of concrete, in one continuous pour, is also expensive. In other words the bridge would be have been completed much faster and at a lower cost if the Government had made it out of steel.
On top of this there is the complete mismanagement of the project with enormous delays in completion dates and presumably cost over-runs when the final bill is known.
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Hehe, living in the vicinity of the Manuel Dimech Bridge, I'm reminded almost every hour on the incompetence of the PN government.
But it's what you get when real competitive tendering is not done properly...
I don't know about the tendering process so I cannot comment.
The real issue is why was this bridge designed in this way when experts will tell you that the most cost effective way to construct this bridge was to do it in steel.
Even the inept MLP has missed this.
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