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My experience with the buses

Sunday, 21 August 2022, 08:41 Last update: about 4 years ago

These days I am doing a lot of travel by bus, because at least twice a week I go to Gozo. So I take a bus from St Dominic Square in Rabat to Saqqajja, then route bus 186 to Mosta and then route bus 42...

Gratitude long overdue

Saturday, 20 August 2022, 08:37 Last update: about 4 years ago

I hardly know Robert personally except coming across each other and exchanging greetings on a couple of social occasions. I always held him in high esteem since the early days, way back from the 2008...

Parliamentary quotas for disabled people

Sunday, 14 August 2022, 06:56 Last update: about 4 years ago

It was heartbreaking reading how Kevin Cutajar and Oliver Scicluna opened up about their time in Parliament and how their disability did play a part in their failure to get re-elected. Since our...

Traffic and tourists

Sunday, 14 August 2022, 06:42 Last update: about 4 years ago

Reference is made to the letter ‘Traffic and Tourists’ published on Sunday 31st July. Malta Public Transport is committed to addressing passengers’ needs and concerns and has looked...

Cycle lanes designed for driver convenience, not cyclists

Sunday, 7 August 2022, 06:52 Last update: about 4 years ago

I feel that some of the reactions to the article "Bicycle lanes being designed by people who never rode a bike" (TMIS, 31 July) indicate that some readers may need further explanation. That cycle...

Traffic and tourists

Sunday, 31 July 2022, 07:37 Last update: about 4 years ago

I and my wife have just returned to Italy after a week-long amazing vacation in Malta. We read your article (Traffic and tourists, The Malta Independent editorial, 27 July) at the airport and we have...

Welcome Covid

Sunday, 24 July 2022, 07:41 Last update: about 4 years ago

I contracted Covid, l think on the buses. And since then l have been sleeping four hours at least each night, non stop. Sleeping tablets had made no difference. My night was always...

Much more to be done…

Sunday, 24 July 2022, 07:34 Last update: about 4 years ago

Persons with disability should be included in everyday activities and encouraged to have roles similar to their peers who do not have a disability.  This involves more than simply encouraging...

Cut the waste

Sunday, 24 July 2022, 07:29 Last update: about 4 years ago

A plastic, round container of Vitamin D3 tablets is three inches high with a two inch diameter. It contains not quite enough tablets to form two layers on the bottom. Isn't that a waste of...

That voice

Sunday, 10 July 2022, 07:54 Last update: about 4 years ago

How modern we have become, I have been thinking. You phone GO, or Melita, or whoever, and you get a machine to talk to. If you have ED, press 1, the machine’s voice tells you. If you have...

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