As a Maltese Canadian who moved here three months ago, I fell in love with the island and thought there was very little here that was not organised and well thought out. That is, until I had to use the public transport.

How can anyone in this country reliably expect to work if they have to rely on such a terrible service such as Tallijna? This is a small island with a finite amount of space for vehicles, so public transit is very important to keep the island from being overcrowded with cars.

But why would anyone want to use buses when Malta Public Transport routinely cancels buses leaving passengers stranded? At Mater Dei Hospital alone, the 122 route bus will just not show up at its scheduled time; most days multiple buses in a row would not show up in the early evening hours. Calls to Malta Public Transport end in the usual “we will submit a report” that ends up going nowhere.

How do you hold Malta Public Transport accountable in such a way to provide a reliable means of transportation that the Maltese people can rely on to address the severe overpopulation of cars?

I, for one, will not wait for more than one and a half hours at a bus stop any longer because a bus driver is pulled off his/her route. I hate to do this but I will get a vehicle.