I am one of those commuters frequently using route bus no. 53. While on Arriva buses we listen to the nice voice notifying where the bus will stop next. Unfortunately, here two errors occur.

While entering Għar Barka, limits of Rabat, the voice tells us that the next stop is Ħal Balzan, while it should be Balzano. This is the name of a nearby road that is known as Balzano, after Maltese composer Don Giuseppe Balzano (1616-1700) who had died in Mdina.

Another big error on the same route No. 53 is on our way to Sta Venera where the voice on board announces “Ċalossa”. This should be Calosso, for the nearby school called Umberto Calosso, the noted anti-Fascist Italian journalist, politician and professor of Italian literature.

These mistakes are repeated every time one gets on bus no. 53.

However, what irked me most was when I heard young school students saying that they will stop on the stage “Ċalossa”!