Licensed vehicles reach 300,000

Henry Mifsud

Jul 25th 2009, 14:01

Why bother to place the odd 300,000 cars bumper-to-bumper from here to Rome. Do the same thing over here, cover all the major roads, and we would have much safer roads and definitely smoother ones.

This is bordering on insanity. And then people complain where to park. It is high time not only to introduce effective traffic and parking measures but also restrictions on vehicle use such as is done in heavily densely populated countries such as Singapore and Honk Kong where cars are only permitted to be driven on the road on specific days of the week e.g. on alternate days.

Such measures would not be effective if they are not complemented by adequate parking zones especially in sensitive and more frequented areas such as Sliema, Valletta and other shopping hubs.

Also, I concurr that residents should have a priority on parking spaces but then let us not make another farcical system like that in Valletta where there are more parking spots reserved for residents than actually needed. I bet my head off that should each car registered with an address in Valletta be allotted a parking spot (reserved and numbered) we would not need so many.