Urgent need to tackle bus disservice

In his letter Improving The Quality Of Our Tourist Product (July 4), the MTA's Kevin Drake insists that commercial establishments should refrain from putting advertisements on catering furniture, canopies, umbrellas etc.

Now that the summer season is already under way, operators have been told to remove them.

I wish that similar enforcement was dished out to bus owners for them to upgrade their buses and remove ugly advertisements on the sides of the old bone shakers.

Letters from locals and visitors appear in the media every day about the horrible state of our buses yet, year after year, this spectre remains.

The MTA ought to forget about the canopies and umbrellas.

Get together with members of the ADT and see to the core of Malta's dwindling image product, the great bus disservice.

Only then, perhaps, can they tell catering operators what they have to do to improve Malta's tourist image.