At the entrance to Old Railway Track, Attard, corner with St Anthony Street, is a traffic sign reading ‘No heavy vehicles’, exempting route buses.

However, this sign is completely ignored by heavy vehicle and truck drivers. Strangely enough, there is no such sign for traffic coming from the opposite direction. It is likely that the drivers of heavy vehicles and trucks who proceed along this road from the other end do not understand why they should not enter the road from the direction of St Anthony Street.

It is doubtful whether any driver of a heavy vehicle has ever been stopped from entering Old Railway Track in the past three years.

It is similarly unlikely that any driver of a heavy vehicle has ever been booked driving through the road. What is the purpose of putting up certain traffic signs if the authorities have no intention of enforcing the rules?

By allowing drivers to ignore certain signs on a regular basis, the authorities might be encouraging certain motorists to do the same with regard to other traffic signs, including stop signs and yield signs.

The amount of lack of discipline on our roads is incredible and we are lucky that the number of serious accidents that take place on a daily basis is not higher. It is about time that a national driver education campaign be launched to improve driving standards. This should target both new drivers and also experienced ones.

All media channels need to participate in such a campaign, including TV stations, to drive home the proper behaviour in driving. It is useless to propose to make Malta the best in Europe, if citizens are not educated on the most basic behaviour on our roads.