Horse-drawn cabs should not use main roads and the animals should be taken back to their stables in transporters. When traffic is not heavy, as in the case above, in December 13 Road, Marsa, it is not such a problem but things become complicated when there are many cars, and buses, on the road. Transport Malta ought to take urgent action.
Garbage galore
These photographs, taken in Mikelanġ Sapiano Street, Żebbuġ, early last week speak, for themselves. The relevant authorities or local council, or both, should see to it that the area is cleaned up immediately. Such a disgrace!
Blind alley
This narrow passageway in Patri Elia Street, Paceville, had been neglected for years. Then, all of a sudden, works started in a desperate bid to complete the job in time for the opening of Fimbank. Parking was, of course, badly affected.
Light savers
Why is it that lots of places in Malta still had street lighting on till late in the day on various days last week? Has electricity suddenly become cheaper?
Lost in sea of cars
Why is it that large car parks, especially multi-storey ones, do not indicate on which floors parking is available? It is so very frustrating having to go round and round in circles only because an electronic sign is not put up in a prominent place.
Community work
A judge in Cleveland, US, has ordered a man who threatened a number of officers to stand outside a police station holding a sign with the word idiot written on it. Our courts need not go that far but they should seriously consider ordering more people found guilty of some offence to do community work. If the law complicates matters then the legislator should remove the obstacles.
Broken promises
The authorities had promised that no more sewage would be discarded in the sea. It seems like this promise has been broken for sewage is still finding itself out at sea in the idyllic St Paul’s Bay, close to the sailing club. How can the authorities then say that the area is safe for bathing?
Beach combing
This notice, placed by the authorities in public bays in a bid to clamp down on beaches being literally taken over by operators offering umbrellas and sunbeds, is hardly being respected. An operator in Little Armier placed an extra row of sunbeds and umbrellas in line with this notice, leaving very little space where members of the public could place their own umbrellas. A ‘clever’ way of beating the system?
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