David Demajo’s complaint about bus lanes in Sliema (December 10) is the epitome of the self-entitled attitude of car drivers in Malta. He writes: “Transport Malta are surely aware of the increase in the number of vehicles on the roads... (and) the traffic problems that drivers have to face on a daily basis.”

His failure to realise that every single-occupancy vehicle on the road during peak times is a large part of the problem would be laughable if it weren’t, sadly, the norm. Buses are not the problem – they carry dozens of people (who are also trying to get to work) in the space taken up by two cars. If bus travel is not made more efficient more people will take to the roads in single-occupancy vehicles and then what?

Demajo should be thankful for those of us who could add another car to the road but choose not to.