Comments on: Post-Arriva bus driver to passenger: “Get off the bus, you fat cow.” https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/post-arriva-bus-driver-to-passenger-get-off-the-bus-you-fat-cow/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Tue, 06 May 2014 12:32:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Emilia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/post-arriva-bus-driver-to-passenger-get-off-the-bus-you-fat-cow/#comment-1878008 Tue, 06 May 2014 12:32:46 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46553#comment-1878008 I once went to get a bus when I was on crutches. I could not do otherwise. The bus was packed and in the priority seats there were people who were neither disabled, nor old or pregnant.

Not only did nobody get up and let me sit but the driver did not attempt to ask someone to get up for me AND he drove like a maniac and knocked me off my crutches. I was visibly struggling.

I was so upset and shocked at the behaviour of the passengers AND the bus driver that I just got off at the next stop and turned back. I know I should have made a fuss but I was so upset I could not talk as I was fighting back tears.

My only gripe is that I did not report the bus driver.

]]> By: Rumplestiltskin https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/post-arriva-bus-driver-to-passenger-get-off-the-bus-you-fat-cow/#comment-1855131 Fri, 02 May 2014 17:03:41 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46553#comment-1855131 Ousting Arriva has now brought us back to where we were decades ago.

The rude, thuggish, obnoxious drivers are back.

Soon the buses will be as decrepit and horrible as the old ones were, without the gay (no pun intended) colours.

Why does Labour always take us back to the bad old days? What is it with these people?

]]> By: M. https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/post-arriva-bus-driver-to-passenger-get-off-the-bus-you-fat-cow/#comment-1855126 Fri, 02 May 2014 17:02:46 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46553#comment-1855126 http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140502/local/bus-driver-suspended-pending-investigation.517371

]]> By: Frances https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/post-arriva-bus-driver-to-passenger-get-off-the-bus-you-fat-cow/#comment-1853670 Fri, 02 May 2014 11:26:56 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46553#comment-1853670 In reply to Stephen.

What an intelligent comment…

]]> By: mattie https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/post-arriva-bus-driver-to-passenger-get-off-the-bus-you-fat-cow/#comment-1852963 Fri, 02 May 2014 08:56:31 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46553#comment-1852963 In reply to Ray.

The point is: There is a ‘savage’ mentality situation on the roads.

]]> By: Paul McEvoy https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/post-arriva-bus-driver-to-passenger-get-off-the-bus-you-fat-cow/#comment-1852024 Fri, 02 May 2014 05:26:18 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46553#comment-1852024 In reply to Ray.

It would help if they used the indicators. At least we would know what they intend to do.

]]> By: Martin Felice https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/post-arriva-bus-driver-to-passenger-get-off-the-bus-you-fat-cow/#comment-1850635 Fri, 02 May 2014 00:10:26 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46553#comment-1850635 In reply to Ray.

To leave the bus stop the driver has to activate the right indicator – this gives him the right of way which means that any vehicle moving in the same direction from behind has to give way. This is the rule here in the Maltese islands.

]]> By: Mandy https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/post-arriva-bus-driver-to-passenger-get-off-the-bus-you-fat-cow/#comment-1850320 Thu, 01 May 2014 23:02:20 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46553#comment-1850320 Why have a minister for tourism at all? The hunters and bus drivers are giving Malta a whole lot of free publicity, albeit adverse.

]]> By: Painter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/post-arriva-bus-driver-to-passenger-get-off-the-bus-you-fat-cow/#comment-1850319 Thu, 01 May 2014 23:02:19 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46553#comment-1850319 No doubt what happened here is unacceptable but what really makes my blood boil is when the driver shows his racist nature towards passengers if they are black or even Asian.

]]> By: starship enterprise https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/05/post-arriva-bus-driver-to-passenger-get-off-the-bus-you-fat-cow/#comment-1849797 Thu, 01 May 2014 20:11:21 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=46553#comment-1849797 This brings me to wander about those drivers that were let go by Arriva for striking on their first day of work, crippling the operation from the get-go.

Have these drivers found their way back into the system now that Transport Malta have taken over the public transport service? Sure sounds like it from reading these comments.

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