ARCHWAY

1
ARCHWAY

• Transport Conclusions

2
Historical Aspect

• Past breaches in walls
• 1966 Barbara Castle Gate
• cf Valletta new gate
• Demolition for modern life
• Mutilation of buildings for private garages
• Multi_Storey carpark
• Corner demolition
• Archeology and carpark provision

3
Effects of Pollution

• Cars air
• But also noise vibration
• Visual
• Street furniture
• Health hazards
• Corrosive effects on stone
• BIGGER PICTURE Kyoto?Global warming?ESDP -
  Interreg

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Joe Camilleri

• Customised accessibility
• Human rights view of disability
• Diverse needs not lumped together
• Also 3rd age people
• (less assertive generation)
• New generation no longer prepared to be
  disabled but wanting their own participation
  with peer group as of right
• Longer living with disability for eg hip
  replacement people
• Mapping nogo areas as basis for action

5
Some adaptive solutions

• Investment reasonable and worthwhile
• Due to disabled pound we have cash in our
  pockets too!
• Avoid labelling
• Non invasive permanent changes to heritage
  buildings ie REVERSIBLE
• Disabled compromising but now others have to.(
  Since EOA Reasonableness test forces
  consultaion, dialogue, negotiation and compromise
  ) www.kpnd.org
• Standards and proper dimensions
• shopmobility

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Problem of excessive traffic and parking in
Valletta

• LUCIEN STAFACE
• ½ percent land area 11 of traffic
• THEREFORE Valletta Floriana
• Priorities
• Residents
• Shoppers and commercial
• commuters
• From V licence to congestion charge

7
Lucien Staface

• Park and Ride to mitigate
• With electric buses solar powered via
  photovoltaic cells on top of carpark
• Freeing up 5km of footway parking
• BUT still letting in shoppers cars
• Edge of pedestrian areas still a cause for
  concern with accidents

8
Transhipment Freight Issues

• The MEROPA INTERREGIIIb Project
• Presented by Lucca.

9
Malcolm Borg The New Comprehensive Master Plan
Strategy

• Multi Nodal
• Multi Modal
• Holistic all singing all dancing strategy for the
  whole urban area
• Linked to revised transport for regeneration with
  a new approach to social housing
• ? Consistent with tourism growth etc.?

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Transport Task Group Colin Stredders Agenda

• Baseline questionnaire for transport
• Compare Conservation Example
• The Task Group
• The GPG (Good Practice Guide) structure
• Intro audience
• Issues challenges and Opportunities
• The ARCHWAY approach
• Resources and Bibliography