Parking spaces in front of Marlene Mizzi’s Rabat toy-shop replaced by double yellow line
How sweet! Silvio Scerri (do you know who he is?) gets his own reserved parking space outside his office (and the GM plates of a cabinet minister) and Marlene Mizzi has the parking spaces outside her Rabat toy-shop removed and replaced by a double yellow line, to keep her shop-front clear.
Of course, the local council probably decided to do this unilaterally, because there’s that awkward angle which just might be construed as a corner.
Too bad for them, then, that the original parking spaces which they have removed still show up, as shown in these pictures.
You can’t have a reserved parking space for a shop or a loading/unloading bay for just the one shop, but this way, when the judge’s (no, I don’t mean Noel Arrigo; that’s long gone) chauffeur and limo come to pick up those toys to deliver them to the judge’s wife’s customers, he can stop just outside.
Or have they stopped doing that, now that he’s a judge and no longer a magistrate?
“Aw Lily hi, ghandek xi toys, ha niehdu good time?”
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Don’t worry, Daphne. That whole area is full of Labourites. That will teach them.
Slowly and stealthily they are all getting what they want. Where’s the much vaunted transparency? Ghand iz-zija.
Those potted plants outside the Early Leeching Centre are causing an obstruction on the narrow pavement.
Perhaps that’s why Marlene’s had the parked cars removed – so that people can walk in the road instead.
In the meantime our PM is really busy with important things…
http://www.independent.com.mt/mobile/2013-09-03/news/pm-stresses-need-for-cleaner-island-2491744256/
“AW LILY HI, GHANDEK XI TOYS, HA NIEHDU GOOD TIME?”
X’batteriji jiehdu?
Some double yellow lines are just street decorations it seems.
In the street where I live in Rabat there is a double yellow line which is taken up by a fish hawker every day with his van sometimes jutting out into the adjacent street.
In this same street there is a reserved space for a woman who died a decade ago.
The yellow lines are just as worn and faded as the white box lines. Might well be that the former preceded the latter. Whatever the case, it seems to fit the bill excellently for Marlene.
I met her husband’s driver a few years back, delivering toys to my son’s childcare centre – hallas poplu.
She does not have a bad figure for a woman in her late 50s.
That area has hit the headlines three times in the past few months.
1. Pre election MLP club brawl a few metres up the street, in which a man was nearly killed.
2. The St. Joseph feast incident in which Daphne was harassed by Labour mayor Natius Farrugia, two women from the Labour Party club and several others, with Daphne taking refuge in the convent just opposite Marlene Mizzi’s toy shop.
3. The Serkin (Crystal Palace) brawl involving the Law Commissioner and the chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology.
The place is almost 100% Labour.
A double yellow line means absolutely no stopping at all (except in an emergency) not even to load/unload merchandise or people. I wouldn’t be surprised if in this case the rule would be applied universally and without discrimination and that wardens won’t appear or disappear as the occasion demands.