A) Most of the bus drivers are new to the job – probably never driven anything of the size before

B) A number of the bus drivers are women – Just joking

C) These buses are larger than the ones we had before, there are many more of them and they are making more trips.

D) As you said they are owned by Arriva not the bus drivers themselves so the drivers are less careful

I assume that as time passes these numbers will fall and no i would never want to go back to the previous state of affairs although unfortunately some of the arriva bus drivers are inheriting their predecessors’ bad habits like staying in the middle of the road instead of in the bus bay and barging around like idiots.

Daphne: What you should have done is to compare like with like, namely, the number of accidents Arriva buses have had compared to the number of accidents the former buses have had for an equivalent amount of time, And an equivalent number of trips.How about that ?

But please remember, the Arriva buses are supposed to be new buses, while the former ones had been running for many years !

[Daphne – The old buses had so many accidents that no company would insure them. Or have you forgotten that?]

I don’t usually like hurling insults, imma kemm int tuba mandango70.

As a native, I tell you it’s because it was introduced by a PN government.

If I am not mistaken, Arriva’s Maltese partners are Tumas Group and their insurers are Allcare. With Labour in government I’m sure there’ll be a change of tune.

Actually, Gakku, it’s not people in the UK who complain at all. It’s Boris Johnson. Period.

The debendification of the routes in London has also brought with it the protests of wheelchair users, strugglers and stragglers because double-decker buses are nowhere as accessible as the articulated buses, and they can carry far less passengers – 35 less to be exact.

And had Boris bothered to look outside the window of the conference centre where he was speaking in Birmingham, he would have seen the same bendy buses he had in London. Birmingham is in fact the city where most of London’s bendy buses ended up.

Given the density of traffic on Maltese roads, I’d say every normal drive is a near miss.

Spot on, ‘Bystander’. Actually, it is unbelievable how much, many Maltese people detest foreigners and by foreigners I mean all sorts: from European to Africans and all the other continents.

No way – Labour has already declared that the bendy buses will be withdrawn only from certain routes.

Can’t imagine the Marsascala / Zabbar / Fgura route without the bendy buses and naturally the St Julians / Sliema area.

Not to mention the Cirkewwa route.