Not only did November 18 mark the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, but on this day seven years ago the Bicycling Advocacy Group first met Transport Malta with a tentative framework National Cycling Policy.
As far as I am aware, that NGO is still awaiting the publication of a cycling policy by the regulator even though this is one of the goals of the national Transport Master Plan, also overdue. Surely in seven years the traffic experts at Transport Malta could have produced at least 20 such documents?
If Transport Malta was a private company someone would have been sacked a long time ago. Questions need to be asked why this has failed so dramatically.
Repeatedly promised, it has understandingly eroded the regulator’s credibility with people on bicycles, just when the transport and environment ministers need them most to help fight car-induced parking, congestion and pollution issues.