The picnic season has kicked in and families head out into the countryside early to find the perfect spot. However, not all clean up before they leave. Loads of rubbish, including a broken folding table and chairs, were left to litter the rural picturesque bay of Mistra.

Safety wedge

A 20-foot container ready for clearing out nearby premises at the former St Luke’s Hospital in Guardamangia was resting on broken slabs of Malta stone, with other pieces of stones used as wedges! It was hoped the stones would take the weight once the container started being loaded. How is that for safety at work?

Smokescreen

To stick to safety at work, construction workers at a site in Melita Street, Valletta could not care less and spent days using an electric chaser to cut bricks and stones in the open. The worker using the machine never wore a mask and did not give a hoot about fellow workers or residents living in nearby buildings.

Immediate action

Well done to Go plc, which acted immediately and repaired a dangerous broken slab in Psaila Street, Birkirkara, corner with Wejter Tower Street. A child was lucky to have escaped serious injury there last week because the gap was wide enough for a leg to pass through.

Common sense prevails

Common sense finally prevailed and a bus bay has been created in Marsa’s busy artery, Aldo Moro, just before the footbridge in the Paola direction. Through no fault of their own, buses that stopped to take on or offload passengers blocked the inner lane, hindering the smooth flow of traffic. The problem became more acute with the temporary traffic arrangements that see cars emerging into the inner lane from the Tas-Salib area. Hopefully, bus drivers will now use the bay correctly.

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