PL allowed to keep its political billboards
Labour has been allowed to keep its billboards after Transport Malta failed to prove its claim that they were a danger to drivers.
The transport watchdog argued that the billboards displayed around the island posed a danger because they distracted motorists, adding that they were placed there without appropriate permission.
The Labour Party claimed this was political discrimination and sought an injunction to stop the billboards being removed.
In a judgement handed down yesterday, Madame Justice Anna Felice said no reason was presented in court to show that the billboards were illegally situated on a road.
Furthermore, the court was not satisfied that they posed a danger because although Transport Malta’s architect Audrey Testaferrata De Noto testified that the billboards breached established guidelines, no evidence had been brought in court to prove this.
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S.M. Cuschieri
Jun 24th 2012, 14:24
I think the billboards of the PM in the kitchen making an omelette and now this one were he is covering his ears are stupid and childish with no meaning whatsoever. They are ridiculing a man of power. A typical PL mentality........
Mario Camilleri
Jun 25th 2012, 13:21
"a man of power" spot on couldn't have said it better.
The PM should be the person overseeing that none of his citizen fellows be ridiculed thus is surely not the PN's mentality.
Mario Camilleri
Jun 23rd 2012, 20:48
The ones I find most destructing are those 3/4 naked women showing their bras and their knickers and mind you not only on billboards but also on vans roaming the streets. I don't mind seeing such billboards but what I do mind is that the TM officials are paid thousands over thousands of €'s out of public coffers and better yet they invent taxes and fines so as to keep the financial flow and only to serve as their master's voice.
E. Azzopardi
Jun 23rd 2012, 18:30
The billboards distracted motorists !! How childish. I do not expect this from persons who are paid in ten of thousands of euros. I am not distracted by this poster but I have a laugh everytime I see it. It is very entertaining. If you have motorists so much at heart, please remove all those billboards which have writing on them. These are the ones you should remove as this are distracting motorists.
A. Mizzi
Jun 23rd 2012, 14:09
But did Labour have to go to court just because of a whim by Gonzipn appointed Management at TM?
Has TM become an extension of gonziOPM now?
victor bonello
Jun 23rd 2012, 13:49
one has to go to court now a days to make Democracy work..
Karl Consiglio
Jun 23rd 2012, 11:19
How nice of the PN to let PL keep their billboards.
Joe Scerri
Jun 23rd 2012, 10:43
Most billboards are a distraction for that matter, especially the electronic ones that emit very bright light at night.
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