Lazy contractor leaves Pietà residents (zebra) cross

Even the smallest car driving through the busy road now “unleashes an apocalypse of noise” says one irate resident, whose triple-glazed windows have been unable to protect him from the clangour.

Was that an explosion? Thunder? A raging gun-battle? Actually, no. It’s the sound of an unidentified contractor’s handiwork in Guardamangia. Go back to sleep.

A furious resident in Triq San Luqa has sent MaltaToday recordings of an unholy din that residents have been enduring since yesterday afternoon, caused by sheet metal left in the middle of the road by workers constructing a zebra crossing.

Residents’ efforts to get the authorities to intervene have so far proven fruitless. Police officers have visited the site this morning and confirmed the noise as being present, however as the contractor's details were nowhere to be found, any action will have to wait until work resumes tomorrow. Transport Malta's offices are closed, due to the public holiday. 

Even the smallest car driving through the busy road now “unleashes an apocalypse of noise” says one irate resident, whose triple-glazed windows have been unable to protect him from the clangour.

He took to Facebook to voice his ire. “Thank you [transport minister] Joe Mizzi,” he writes. “The genius contractor that you engaged near my house (in a residential zone near an arterial road) has buggered off home, leaving two large metal sheets [in the middle of the road] without so much as a rubber dampener.”

Some things must be seen to be believed. Others, heard.