Giving wardens a bad name

I’m aware that many write to complain about wardens; some are justified and some maybe less so. However, a warden I encountered on the afternoon of October 6 really took the biscuit.

As I was driving on the Birkirkara bypass at around 4.30 p.m., from the Msida side towards the Birkirkara area, I was stuck in the traffic that formed after the heavy downpour. As I approached the entrance of Ta’ Paris, I noticed a line of cars attempting to join the main carriageway on the bypass. As the car in front of me stopped, he allowed another car waiting to emerge.

I looked on as the second car in line, a warden whose car number I retained, overtook the car in front of him by driving onto the cycle lane and straight out into the bypass. The warden’s car proceeded to overtake some cars on the main road in the same manner, then slid in between two cars and joined the traffic there.

To add insult to injury, when I eventually changed lanes and overtook the warden, I noticed he was busily chatting on his mobile phone.

It’s a pity that a warden like this ridicules the hard work done by his own colleagues through such actions and simultaneously gives a bad name to himself and his profession.