It is said that some things happen only in Malta.

Maybe, and this one will go down as one of the most weird.

When you think you’ve seen everything – such as signs telling drivers that the maximum speed is 80km/h only to find a 30km/h speed limit sign a few metres down the road (it happened recently on the St Paul’s Bay by-pass) – something else happens that supersedes the previous happening.

Nationalist MP Karol Aquilina has published the latest bizarre situation on Maltese roads – a half zebra crossing.

It is in Triq ix-Xatt, Msida, a road that took months to be redone and is still unfinished, as from the photo it seems that only one side has been given a new layer of tarmac.

But the strangest part is that half a zebra crossing has been painted, which means that pedestrians have a “safe” passage until only half the road.

Aquilina cheekily says it seems that the funds for paint finished midway through.

“What does it matter to them that thousands pass through there each day? What does the safety of all those crossing matter to them? After waiting months for this road to be done, half of it is without tarmac and road signs. Half-hearted work from a half-hearted government that does not worry about spending millions on corrupt deals, and then acts miserly with some paint!”

What will happen if someone is run over on the unfinished side of the zebra crossing, is a question we add to those listed by Aquilina.