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.

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.

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?

Well said, Painter.

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.

Seems more like ‘cock-up’ to me

Probably still waiting to get paid unfortunately