Dear Malta Public Transport,
First, let me start off by asking a serious question. Are you all just a bunch of masochists who get off on the suffering of bus-users in Malta? Or did it start out as a game of strip poker, removing vital bus routes instead of clothes? I’m only asking this because I can’t possibly think of any other reason as to why you would deliberately screw up the bus system so badly.
I get that you had good intentions by introducing a few new bus routes and by modifying routes in a two-phase system, but I can’t help feeling that this was all done in a chaotic rush. Imagine this, you’re at the Qawra bus terminus two days after the route 12 was removed. You ask the MPT official when the next bus to St.Julians is arriving, the MPT official then announces to the whole mob of angry commuters that the bus 12 runs every 20 minutes in the morning. When he was told by another commuter that the route number 12 is no longer in use, he and his colleagues frantically searched through their clipboards, completely lost.
And what about schedules? Did someone at the MPT head office happen to forget to make one, or are we supposed to just show up at a bus stop and hope that the bus that passes once an hour just happens to pass by eventually? While we’re on this topic let’s bring up the updated frequency of certain routes, namely the bus 12. A week before changes were implemented, MPT general manager Konrad Pule mentioned in an interview with Times of Malta that the bus 12 often left Valletta already full up before it arrives in Sliema en-route to Bugibba. This bus used to run every 12 minutes during the day, so why in the name of Arriva was this bus replaced with a bus that only runs from Bugibba to Sliema every half hour? How could anyone possibly think this was a good idea?
And as a last question, do you have a personal vendetta against Higher Secondary/MCAST Naxxar students and residents in Bugibba, Qawra, Mtarfa and Mgarr to name a few? Because it sure feels like it.
(Not so) Sincerely,
Everyone who has to live with your poorly made decisions.
