Merchant Street paved pedestrian zone: now reserved for Taghna Lkoll parking
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June 28, 2014 at 12:21am
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Isn’t that Merilweez’s removals van?
Which reminds me: it’s “lorry”, not “truck”.
Of course it’s ‘lorry’. ‘Truck’ means ‘bus’ in Maltese.
God, how we’ve butchered the language but it doesn’t stop there.
The Brits then changed ‘bus’ to ‘charabanc’ after it was brought up by Peppi, together with half the population that cannot stand the programme.
The French, not to be out done, then copied it from the British.
It-triq tilfet is-sbuhija taghha b’dak il-kruha ta’ karozzi. L-art diga ghandha tbajja suwed biz-zejt li jaqa minnhm. Il-karozzi qed jigu jpparkjai wara u quddiem l-monument ta’ La Valette ukoll.
What a shame even the new square of La Vallete is being used as a carpark
And then they say that the Maltese are the most obese in the world. No wonder!
It has nothing to do with weight but with arrogance.
Dejjem hekk kien il Labour. Ma hux kapaci jiddistingwi bejn Ministeru xempju u kazin laburista tar-rahal. Nghiduha kif inhi wara 25 sena fil kazin ma taghtihomx tort li ghadhom iridu jitghallmu x`inhu Ministeru.
Both sites were PN projects.
PN paved the streets but not to be used as a car park genius
And that, is why Labour is unsustainable.
It’s a mindset.
There once was a police commissioner in a suburban area on the outskirts of a bustling metropolitan area in Canada, who was in love with the idea of being the commissioner, and totally in love with himself.
He and his wife felt they were above the law, in many respects. Day after day, the commissioner’s missus would sail through one stop sign after another in the quiet, leafy neighborhood in which they resided, with total impunity, her mobile phone clamped to one ear, and without even so much as an attempt at a “Hollywood stop”.
And every single day for six months, the officers on the beat issued her a ticket, for each and every one the traffic violations that they happened to witness, not because of who she was, but rather, because they didn’t care who she was. God bless them.
The tickets went unpaid for months and years because, well after all, he was the commissioner of police and she was his wife. Eventually, the matter of unpaid traffic violations and parking infractions came up as a discussion point before the local Committee of Ways and Means.
Suddenly, the story of the police commissioner’s wife and her disrespect for the rules that bind ordinary mortals were front page news. This led to a full exposé of the commissioner’s own delusions of grandeur, his missteps and foibles, all of which were legendary among his juniors, but up until then, had been kept hidden behind the Blue Wall.
Within a few months, the commissioner was drummed out of office by an outraged City Council. He briefly took up a similar position in a much larger city, but that ended badly too. He eventually found his way into politics, where he found his natural home.
Now he and his wife attempt to lord it over the nation’s capital. Her driving is still dreadful. I assure you, however, that even they would never dare to park their SUVs on a side street adjacent to Parliament, or on any of the boulevards surrounding out national monuments.
Minn mindu tela’ l-labour fil-gvern, il-Belt Valletta saret mimlija karrozzi, trakkijiet, vanijiet, muturi, cabs, etc etc.
Kullhadd jipparkja fejn irrid, sew fit-toroq principali kif ukoll f’icken triq li hawn gol Belt. Ma tista tkellem lill hadd ghax jaghmlu ghalik. Jigu jaqaw u jqumu mir-residenti. Triq id-Dejqa wara l-complex Embassy minnbarra l-imwejjed, siggijiet, umbrellel, sandwich boards, qsari u issa sahansitra bicciet ta’ ghamara fejn ippoggu l-frieket etc, din l-ahhar sena qed jipparkjaw karrozzi li jdum hemm sijat shah, ipparkjati hazin u li ma jhallux spazju minfejn mara bil-pram tista tghaddi.
Ir-residenti irridu jaghmlu weghda biex ikunu jistaw jidhlu ihottu x-xirja taghhom jew biex iwassalu xi qraba anzjani li ma jistawx jimxu, sa hdejn il-bieb tad-dar taghhom.
Tant kullhadd qed jaghmel li jrid u ma hawnx ordni, li sahansitra jipparkjaw anki f’nofs ta’ zewg toroq, basta jaghmlu l-qadja li jkollhom bzonn. Anki tal-hwienet qed jitmejjlu minn kullhadd u la ma jsibux fejn jipparkjaw, ihallu l-karrozza taghhom jew fit-triq tal-hanut taghhom jew fi triq vicina ghall gurnata shiha.
Milli jidher il-Kunsill ma ghandux “SAY”. Illha ma ssir laqgha ghalina r-residenti xi sena u nofs. Donnu dan il-kunsill qed jibza jiftah halqu u qed ihalli lir-residenti ifendu ghall-rashom.
Din tal-ipparkjar f’kull triq hija wahda mill-problemi li ghandna gol-Belt. Il permessi li qed johorgu biex attivitajiet idumu iktar mill hin li tghati l-ligi qed tinholoq problema kbira hafna ghar-residenti. Il muzika gholja esagerata li jkun hawn tindannak, iktar u iktar meta jkollok tfal u anzjani morda. Il-vilta hija li jghalqulek triq b’xi pjanu fin-nofs ta’ 4 toroq b’imwejjed u siggijiet u cushions li lanqas tkun tista tghaddi qabel ma titlob biex jersqulek. U jekk iccempel lill Pulizija jghajdulek “GHANDHOM PERMESS”……..imma l-permess minn ghand minn qed johrog? Jekk isaqsi lill Kunsill jghajdlek li mhux huma harguh; jekk isaqsi lill MTA tghajdli li mhux hi u staqsi min hawn u staqsi minn hemm fl’ahhar sibna li certi permessi hargu mill Lands Department ( hawn qed nirreferri ghall permessi biex jinhargu imwejjed u siggijiet fuq il-parking spaces tar-residenti), li suppost johorgu jew mill Kunsill jew mil MTA.
Skond il Kunsill ma hemm l-ebda permess ghall imwejjed, siggijiet etc etc gol Belt………….. mela nistaqsi jien “GHALIEX IT-TOROQ GOL BELT HUMA INVAZATI B’DAWN?
Timxi Triq ir-Repubblika titqazzez b’dawk l-imwejjed u siggijiet. Anki il kazin tal-Labour hareg l-imwejjed u minn ftit issa saru hafna sahansitra fil-weekend anki sa hdejn l-ATM tal BOV.
U sew ir-restaurants u l-caffetterijas qed jaghmlu li jridu. Kont qed niehu kafe ma’ habib go kaffetterija go Triq ir-Repubblika u dahal pulizija isaqsi lis-sid biex jurih il-permess tal-imwejjed u siggijiet. Dan urijulu u kellu jdahhal xi imwejjed u siggijiet. Ma jghaddux 5 minuti li dan il-propjetarju hareg jittawwal got-triq, dahal u qal lill waitress biex terga tohrog kollox. Ahna bqajna iccassatti!!!!!! Kaz iehor; pulizija innotta karrozza ipparkjata fi tirq pedestrian u staqsa ta’ minn hi lill mara li kienet fuq it-targa ta’ restaurant f’din it-triq. Qaltlu li kellha thallija hemm ghax ma sabitx fejn tipparkja. Qalla biex tnehhijha u hi qaltlu, HALLIJILI PULIZ HAWN U META TRID EJJA KUL XI HAGA B’XEJN. U x’tahsbu li ghamel?????? Qalla orajt, hu telaq u hi halliet il karrozza taghha hemm. Jien harist lejh u ghatlu…… PROSIT KEMM TAF IZZOMM IL-LIGI. Ma qalli xejn u telaq.
Hemm iktar u iktar affarijiet x’inghajd, imma ghallum daqshekk u minn irrid jisma halli jisma.
Also the market is expanding and looking as ghastly as ever.
And where is the Valletta local council? We are becoming passive, not understanding what the country has achieved in these last 25 years. Simply amazing.
Progett ta’ electric bollards, wifi system bis-CCTV cameras f’ kull kantuniera tat-triq u control room biex tiprottegi zona pedonali bl-iktar mod efficjenti ila tezisti fuq sena sa fejn naf jien.
Xi hadd jaf jghidli ghala mhix tithaddem ghada? Hela ta’ flus u rizorsi biex inpaxxu 4 tigigiet?