Just listen to the experts: Bus passengers

I refer to the Labour MPs’ motion in Parliament regarding public transport. We were promised a reform of the public transport and by golly we got it. It is all so very public but no transport.

I had some good trips like Msida to Valletta to Msida. But what a hassle it was when it came to longer distances, like St Paul’s Bay-Valletta and back, Valletta to Żebbuġ and back. Once, there were so many in the queue for the 41 and 31 routes in Valletta that I decided to take bus 21, got off at Gżira and managed to squeeze into a bus 31 there.

We are used to going to the supermarket and buying tins of sardines; now we have tins of people on our roads.

I will not point any fingers but whoever was responsible should come out in the open and admit it.

We need another public transport reform. Leave the buses as they are, leave the drivers as they are, change the routes to what they were before but start and finish in the town or village they depart from, put back the number of destinations to what they were before, have more frequent trips at peak times, have smaller buses for the less frequented and narrower streets and listen to the commuters who are the experts because they use the public transport.