The Nationalist Party on Saturday exposed what it described as a difference of opinion between two government members with regard to traffic issues.

A few days ago, Finance Minister Clyde Caruana - who disagrees with the Prime Minister on the mass transport system - told us that the solution to Malta's traffic crisis lies in penalties and fines, the PN said.

Now his colleague, Transport Minister Chris Bonett, has contradicted him, stating yesterday that fines to discourage the use of cars would amount to nothing less than a new tax.

This latest statement by Minister Chris Bonett is also a clear admission of his own failure, and of the Labour Government's failure in the transport sector, the PN said.

Speaking to journalists, Bonett admitted that there is currently no alternative to car use.

This is the same Minister who, six months ago, held a three-hour press conference to announce that he would launch schemes encouraging people to give up their car licence and switch to alternative means of transport. Not one of those schemes has yet been implemented, the PN said.

The Labour Government is completely paralysed and has no clue how to solve the very problems it created on our roads.

So far, Minister Chris Bonett has done nothing but hold conferences and consultations without delivering any real results, while Minister Clyde Caruana keeps contradicting Prime Minister Robert Abela - even going as far as describing a new mass transport system as madness.

One says fines are needed; the other says we cannot impose fines before having an alternative to car use.

In all this, Robert Abela remains stuck in the middle, turning in circles, the PN said. To this day, we still do not know what the Government's official position is on this issue - whether it's that of Robert Abela or that of Clyde Caruana.

Meanwhile, the people remain without solutions - stuck in traffic, the PN said.