New bus shelters to be installed

Jennifer Cosaitis

Mar 22nd 2010, 19:48

They should also add the bus shelter in front of the Coastline Hotel (direction Bugibba) as someone drove right through it last week (don't ask how)

Karl Muscat

Mar 22nd 2010, 10:56

The Pope's arrival is indeed near! New bus shelters on their way, new pots and plants in Attard near Mount Carmel hospital and fixing of the walls in Mdina Road Rabat. Next in line are the flowers on the central strip near the Attard Corinthia Hotel lights.

Get the Pope every year please. And while you're at it... get the queen or whoever you want as long as we fix stuff :)

Claire Busuttil

Mar 21st 2010, 23:58

@ Pulis- F'Ottubru li ghadda, l-istess awtorita (taht isem iehor) wieghdet lilna z-Zabbarin li Triq il-Labour kellha tinghata l-asfalt sa tmiem is-sena 2009. L-2010 ga kwazi xjahet bi 3 xhur u Triq il-Labour ghadha Triq il-Herba! Apparti minn dan kollu fi Triq il-Labour ukoll hemm bus shelter imma la jipprotegik mix-xita u wisq anqas mix-xemx!

Sewwa ghidt, hemm sprall, enormi, qisek tieghla muntanja, ilu hemm 20 yrs zgur....dan qieghed quddiem t take away li hemm fil bidu.......dan apparti il hofor esagerati li hemm fiha!!

Christian Sciberras

Mar 21st 2010, 20:57

A. A. Muscat - Now now, let's be fair, they do offer 10% sheltering!

peppi micallef

Mar 21st 2010, 20:36

In some weeks time, a lot of these bus shelters will be the full of posters for discos. The thing is that they stick these posters during night with this very sticky glue and then they leave them there after the venue. If you call the event organizers and tell them to take away these posters, they will simple say that THEY didn't. They are just the organizers..

m.grech

Mar 21st 2010, 17:59

what about the bus shelter at Savoy terminus if you call it that.It does'nt offer any protection from the strong wind that passes through that street nor from the rain,moreover it is inadequate and in urgent need of replacement.

A. A. Muscat

Mar 21st 2010, 14:58

Only someone who does not use the local bus transport could describe the last generation of bus shelters as "functional & high-quality". The structures neither shelter from the sun or rain nor do they offer cover in windy conditions - all those who use the bus service in St Julians/Sliema area will testify to this being the case. Perfectly adequate structures in iron were demolished and replaced by these flimsy alternatives which in winter are invariably damaged by the elements. The "old" shelters were just as their name denotes "shelters" - the new "glass" setups are advertisement billboards masquerading as structures offering shelter.

Jesmond Micallef

Mar 21st 2010, 14:54

Good news. These new bus shelters will also provide a good platform for cultural promotion within the network of public transport both in Malta and Gozo.

If I may be bold enough to suggest here, but maybe the limestone slabs from the dismantled older shelters be recycled somehow.

J Galea

Mar 21st 2010, 14:04

Why not have just one or two sides in glass with the roof solid with a wide awning to provide shelter from the sun. Does anybody ever think of the function of something like this? Glass houses are not good when you have 9 months of summer-like weather.

Tony Gatt

Mar 21st 2010, 13:54

@ J. Tonna.
Correct. And they were not easy to vandalise, either.

John Debattista

Mar 21st 2010, 13:49

U Hal Tarxien triq Palma fejn kien hemm Bus Stop Shelter Direzzjoni Lejn il Belt? Kunsill Mejjet jew? TM don't take us for a RIDE Bhalhom pls......................Ham...............................

M.Sammut

Mar 21st 2010, 12:49

High quality glass houses i think they mean , try using them in summer and in winter you still have to keep your umbrella open inside the bus stops because you will get wet. Personally i think that we could use better ideas instead of glass,

Charles Micallef

Mar 21st 2010, 12:02

What about the partly demolished one at Xemxija. ?

Christian Sciberras

Mar 21st 2010, 11:58

What about the one in Rabat Road (Gozo) which supposedly have been planned these last 3-4 years?

Extraordinary island indeed!

r.cutajar

Mar 21st 2010, 11:51

As per concern of bus shelters' users has the local elements been taught of ? and was there ever a choice / tender of variouse designs and functionality ?Whoever is resp. should lessen clatter as much as possibile .Look at the countless lamp posts across the country almost always offering a truly untidy athmospher all over Malta .Will there be adverts along these lam posts for His Holiness to admire ?
bus shelters should first offer what they state and with modern technology and materials it is possibile indeed ,otherwise well done for considerations .

peter fitzgerald

Mar 21st 2010, 11:50

Application PA 04432/09 bus interchange at Mdina road has not been approved by MEPA or gone to the DCC board can the times of malta verify this article i am beweldered as to how these new bus shelters are already going to be installed. The case officer involved up to 19/32010 had not even seen the new proposal.

J.Tonna

Mar 21st 2010, 11:43

First of all Transport Malta should see that they do not fix 'public saunas' because as they are they are not usable, leaving you so exposed.

The ones we see are neither fit for Summer, as they do not cover you from the sun and neither for winter as they do not cover you from the rain. In my opinion the best ones were those made of Malta stone as they kept us covered from the rain and the sun.

H Galea

Mar 21st 2010, 11:32

Before you start messing try to understand what''Bus Shelter'' means.To protect passengers from ''Wind'',''Rain'', ''Sun'' and gives ''visability'' to see the comming ''Bus''
In your comment, their is sommething missing, the commencement date.I in the name of passengers thank TM to begin work soonest.

Tony Gatt

Mar 21st 2010, 11:18

What! None in Marsascala?

D. Fenech

Mar 21st 2010, 11:05

Ikun ahjar li kieku Triq ir-Rabat issir mill-gdid qabel ma jitwahhlu bis shelters godda, ghax tal-misthija.

Joseph Micallef

Mar 21st 2010, 10:44

Great - so in the long hot summer months these "shelters" will serve as human incubators as well! They might shelter commuters from rain but certainly not from the sun!

A. Pulis

Mar 21st 2010, 10:39

F'Ottubru li ghadda, l-istess awtorita (taht isem iehor) wieghdet lilna z-Zabbarin li Triq il-Labour kellha tinghata l-asfalt sa tmiem is-sena 2009. L-2010 ga kwazi xjahet bi 3 xhur u Triq il-Labour ghadha Triq il-Herba! Apparti minn dan kollu fi Triq il-Labour ukoll hemm bus shelter imma la jipprotegik mix-xita u wisq anqas mix-xemx!

M.Brincat

Mar 21st 2010, 10:36

Issa gharaw x'ser taghmlu biex ma joqghodux iwahhlu l-posters tad-discos u x'naf jien maghhom.