If Arriva were still running the show, Super One TV would be there with their cameras
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August 6, 2014 at 9:40pm
This is completely unacceptable: a hotelier sent me this photograph of a large queue of people waiting at the ‘bus-stop’ on the main road just outside Paceville.
Peak tourism month, blazing sun and…no buses.
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Where is Kurt Sansone and his camera for the Times of Malta?
Maybe he is examining the holes which Konrad Mizzi said they are digging at the site of the new Marsaxlokk gas power station?
How long will they get away with blaming Arriva?
As long as they bloody well like.
Well then, where are Net TV’s cameramen?
U le hi ma tarax imorru tan-Net, biex ighidu li l-PN neggativi?
Probably still waiting to get paid unfortunately
Well said, Painter.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140806/local/applications-for-basic-specialist-gp-trainees-to-reopen.530845
The article leaves you wondering what the issue was and you end up concluding that someone is blowing smoke up your a** while making sure that the whole thing is heavily sugar coated.
Applications are reopening for meritocracy…go figure! Is Times of Malta still published in English?
Applications are re-opening because people with connections didn’t get in the first time round. Mater Dei Taghna Lkoll.
It looks like Bangkok.
Seems more like ‘cock-up’ to me
Where is NET TV?
Bidla fid-direzzjoni.
L-ahjar fl-Ewropa.
The people don’t deserve better.
What amazes me, apart from the lousy service provided, is the fact that nobody knows exactly how much this farce is costing the Maltese taxpayer.
Nobody can either quantify the harm it is causing our tourist industry. Where is the MHRA now, just complaining (and rightly so), about the number of unlicensed restaurants?
€2.4 million have been spent on leasing buses which are clearly not suitable for the job.
The Minister and Transport Malta are directly responsible for this gross mismanagement and waste of public funds. Plan B is now demoted to Plan D – for disaster!
That bus stop is always full…come sun or rain.
The white buses rented by Transport Malta to replace the bendy buses do not have sufficient ventilation. The smaller types are not air-conditioned and too hot inside during the summer months. Il-gahan laburist mhux jgorr issa.
If you use those buses rented by Transport Malta you have to put something in your ears so that you do not hear the noises inside. Ridiculous from these supposed new buses.
This queue is not a one off. These past 10 days, I noted several instances where crowds of people were waiting on bus stops in St. Julians and St. Pauls Bay.
This is a serious situation for tourism.
From a tourism perspective, government committed two serious mistakes. First, it removed bendy buses from our roads. Bendy buses take a large number of people. Without bendy buses, it is difficult to handle larger numbers of people.
Second, it pushed Arriva out of its contract because of which the management of the service and routes has deteriorated.
The Times should be asking MHRA whether ‘taghna f’ taghna’ is best for tourism.
L-istess gara c-Cirkewwa. U xhin, wara hafna hin, giet il-41 l-erkondixin ma kienx jahdem.
So what . This also occurred under the previous administration .
An Italian friend needed a bus from St. Julian’s to Valletta last Monday and he had to wait for a full 90 minutes before finally he could board a bus which was not bursting at the seams with passengers.
Only five buses passed by the bus stop in the previous 90 minutes and all were full. He did not complain or anything but waiting for a full 90 minutes to board a bus is totally unacceptable.
Wait, there are a lot of people on the bus stop because on that day …….. em…..em… oh sh.t no Arriva.
The scene pictured here is a daily and continuous one on many bus-stops also in Sliema and St Julian’s. I really mean continuous, even in the afternoons and evenings.
Starting from the Ferries, further up along Tower Road (the former Regina Hotel site), Ghar id-Dud, Fond Ghadir, Exiles (near Cara’s) Balluta and Spinola – on your way towards St. Paul’s Bay and beyond.
The situation coming back, starting from Pembroke, Pender Place, Spinola, Olivier, Exiles, all the bus-stops down to The Point, the Ferries, and Gzira – on your way to Valletta is a similar ‘adventure’ with scores anxiously waiting for a possible place on the next bus.
And the next bus, when it manages to arrive, hardly has place for more than a couple at a time.
I pity the poor tourists, Language students and locals trying to move around this crowded part of Malta.
And, of course, I shudder to think of others trying to make their way to the beaches in the North via Hamrun, Birkirkara and Mosta – and back.
Still, the Times carries hardly any whimper of complaint on the tragi-comic situation present in the public transport system.
And, obviously, minister Joe Mizzi is complacent and fully satisfied that the ‘public has nothing to object to or complain about’
All is well on the buses-front. Public coffers draining like leaking tanks; customer-friendly manners by bus-drivers simply gone back to the dogs; and, of course, no bendy-buses catching fire.
Bendy-buses? Whoever mentioned bendy-buses?
Is someone, by any chance, concerned about the loss suffered by tax-payers and the gains made by the concern which has been ‘saddled’ with their carcasses?
Why is it taking so long to have a proper transport system? Until then I will continue using my car. Addio il-Karta Anzjan when with just 50 cents I can go on a tour around Malta.
It is true at that bus stop. This happens every day. I use this stop daily.
For example today the no. 222 had 45 passengers standing and 40 seated besides another 5 persons who sat down where you are supposed to leave luggage.
I got off at St. Paul’s Bay. It took me more than 5 minutes to get off that bus. I witnessed a driver insulting and being arrogant to tourists who did not move further inside.
This is happening due to the removal of bendy buses from those touristic routes.
To make matters worse still, privately owned buses, which cost the government 700 euros a day in tax money, do not take standing passengers but only seated passengers. These are being used on these touristic routes. It is a disgraceful service. A total disgrace. You have to use them every day like I do to know just how bad it is.