The wisdom of The People (7)
One minute they don’t want a ‘quarry’ outside St John’s because it’s too risky. The next minute they want a whole city underground. Give these people a drainage system and the pits from which building-stone was dug out, and their fantasies take off.
K Spiteri (2 hours, 50 minutes ago)
The tunnel Network beneath Valletta can be converted into a multi-use underground city. Some ideas which come to mind are: Shopping centre, Entertainment Venues, Art Galleries, Cultural Spots, Film Facilities, Catering Establishments, Indoor Sports Facilities, etc etc.The Network is vast enough to make cater for all these facilities.
So why don’t we build 2 cities at one go? Smartcity and Underground City? I’m sure that the Maltese people will be proud with the latter for sure.
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The guy probably had an overdose of reading Jule Verne’s novels:’The Underground City’, ‘The Mysterious Island’, ‘From the Earth to the Moon, ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea’ and last but not least ‘A Journey to the Center of the Earth’.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090227/local/undocumented-network-of-tunnels-discovered
TONY ABELA (3 hours, 2 minutes ago)
hANDS OFF vALLETTA FOR ANY BIG PROJECT WHICH REQUIRES SCAVATIONS, AT LEAST BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT OR THE AUTHORITIES EITHER MAKE THE NECESSARY RESEARCH TO FIND OLD DOCUMENTATION OR IN THE ABSENCE OF ANY DOCUMENTATION, THEY SHOULD IMMEDIATELY GET SOME MONEY FROM EU TO MONITOR AND SKETCH ALL WHAT IS BENEATH OUR WORLD HERITAGE CITY.
CAN WE DO SOMETHING PROFESSIONAL IN MALTA?
If ignorance is bliss why aren’t there more happy people like this one?
Although admittedly the comments posted on The Times website are full of spelling mistakes and ridiculous assertions, I fail to understand the method behind this constant selection reproduced here. Are we suggesting that these people should be denied their rights as individual citizens? Are we suggesting going back to the past when only those with property rights were allowed to vote? It’s very interesting to observe the constant bombardment which must be harping ons something
Gerald: Your comment above is what is called a non-sequitur and it didn’t result in any great cataclysmic event, nor did your individual rights disappear in a puff of smoke. Nor, for that matter, did anyone ask you for proof of property ownership before you posted your message. So what is it that upsets you so much?
I know the connection is tenuous but somehow this reminds me of the FAA/Astrid Vella & Co.
For some light relief
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1IJiAXjj7k
Gerald, the problem with the volume,low quality and nonsense of the http://www.timesofmalta.com comments is that they have become off-putting and tedious.
It’s always the same people who either want to express themselves even though they have nothing substantial to say because they are so bored with their lives, or a bunch of big-headed egocentrics who want to suck up to Doktor Muscat to impress him.
At the end of the day, people who can contribute and add value to the article in question do not comment at all, since they do not want to be associated with these idiots. Nobody reads these comments anymore, unless one wants to amuse himself for a couple of minutes.
Gerald,
Don’t you find these ‘selectively’ reproduced comments amusing? No one is attempting to be vindictive. Mr Spiteri commented in an amazingly funny and naive way. So, in agreeing wirh Corinne, what’s got up your nose?
While we’re at it, we can build Gotham City as well (we have a number of colourful characters who will give Batman a run for his money). In a true Ed Debono fashion, let’s think outside the box – er rock – and we can also go ahead with underwater city. This is cool. I like it. It’s like playing Sim City on a PC.
PLUS, there’s the added benefit. With all these cities, we will have enough place to breed and outgrow the number of . . . what do they call them? Ah yes. Invaders sent by the infidel.
Handy passage that. Complete with kaptelli on top so that you can clean it up to clear any blockage of accumulated sh**. What passage? That looks like a drainage gandott to me. The ceiling says it all. They didn’t have PVC pipes with rodding eyes in those days.
But I can understand the FAA getting all orgasmic about it. Why, these secret passages are just like the ones we used to read about in Enid Blyton! Whoever knows what might have gone on in them – maybe some damsel with hoop skirts and ants in her pants running to the palace from some connected house to comfort a grandmaster or even Romegas, that seafaring rogue himself. Or maybe they could have smuggled in some angel dust and had a party and been naughty and played doctors and patients, or strip spin the bottle, or ….who knows? Never has a common or garden drain (worth preserving, I hasten to add) been imbued with so much romanticism and mystery.
@mj: I’ve got an even better idea – put all the infidel invaders underground where they can be forced to work (taking AN’s advice) without ever having to be seen – that’ll keep the population happy.
@ Mario Debono , they didn’t have pvc pipes but they had those made of clay.
Kaptelli are not placed in a triangular position; they are placed horizontally, a sewer leads to a cesspit or to the sea and it should be on a gradiant (pendil).This one is level and leads to a street. My question is: “If parliament is moving to City Gate with the probability of the Yellow Garage being its parking place, why should we disagree with Renzo Piano’s grand plan of a car free Valletta, and build a car park right in the middle of the city? I wouldn’t be surprised that it was an escape route from the palace. Let’s wait and see what the experts have to say.
The FAA wants it open for the public, maybe to be used as a public latrine. The problem is actually with The Times. Sometimes I have the feeling that some reporters have quite an agenda.
At least Parliament was not part of the list of proposed items!
http://stocks.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080908/local/what-lies-beneath