No ‘Plan B’ should Arriva leave for good

Plan A, B, C......what the heck...while the PN klikka enjoying their commissions as the people suffer

The problem with the bus service in Malta are cultural more than to do with the buses or bus company. The bus service has been poor long before Arriva took over. The drivers have an attitude towards work and also keeping to a timetable. So the drivers need to change their attitude to help improve the service. This is why blaming Arriva is not helpful. Also if the roads are in poor condition they need to be improved now not some day in the future.

This is a combination of events: 1. Failing Arriva management. 2. Buses that are not fit for these streets. 3. Streets that are not fit for traffic whatsoeve, meaning a complete lack of city planning in this country. 4. Drivers with attitudes. In traffic and towards customers. 5. Government lacking experience, control and any sense of what this business is all about. Solution: Bring in minibuses that take the tourists from one place to another with more frequency on bus routes and use some technology to track those minibuses. We all know tha timetables are useless in this traffic. Don't let people wait at the bus stop for nothing. This may be done budget neutral; it lowers unemployment and increases customer satisfaction.

Everytime We visit Malta in June annually, The Arriva Buses Give Us no Confidence to Use Their Services or No Services to be frank , We therefore use The hotels Recommended taxi service, Which I must say are Quite Reasonable Prices , and Friendly drivers, Come Back the Old buses They were always Reliable in Our view, Keep Your Island Maltese , Malta!!!!!!!!!!

No ‘Plan B’ should Arriva leave for good I thought they are prepared for any occasion after 25 years in opposition Where there is a will there’s a WAY Plan B, should be the reintroduction of the “OLD BUSES”. Since the Government is giving our taxes to Arriva as subsidies and as said Arriva has been a complete failure both for them and for the Maltese Nation. We are spending millions on millions and the service is leaving a traumatic effect on all of us. Waiting for hours on end at bus stops both in the hot summer months as well as in winter, when it’s always raining, and then when that box arrive because they don’t even have a shape you board the bus and the air condition is not working. The fees has risen drastically and to make matters worse, the tourist who come to visit our Island are treated like second class not to say fourth country Nationals by charging them higher prices which is in itself discriminatory. I am not saying just that our brothers and sisters who come from the EU member’s states but also from the other countries which are not our brothers and sisters. We have been promised over and over again an efficient, timely, educated, and comfortable service. While the Maltese Nation is forking out millions in subsidies we aren’t getting the fair share of what both arrive and the ex PN Government promised us. “The time of Comedies has came to an end” according to the ex Right Honorable Dr Austin Gatt. But we found out for ourselves that the time of for Comedies was about to begin. I suggest to the Taghna Ilkoll Government to: 1. Help the old experienced Maltese bus drivers reintroduced their buses back. We had buses that were unique and one could see tourist taking photos of this buses while posing with the buses. For me it meant that our buses had something the tourist liked. They were also suited for our roads. The present boxes take ¾ of the road width. They are too big for our roads. 2. Re introducing the colors for each locality like we had before. This was far better than having to get crossed eyed to see the number, and sometimes the numbers weren’t showing their real destination. 3. Although they old buses had their problems, in those many years that I used them they were timely and I never had to get up two hours before to just go to Valletta from Slime. 4. As far as I know they never busted into flames like these euro 5 boxes. The last PN Government used to boast about the safety, emissions and whatever crossed their minds. The good thing is that this year we had a change of Government and I honestly hope that this change will be for the betterment of our Country and if we have a change in this mockery of a transport system then hopefully we should have won two victories. I hope that it will be a victory too for our brothers and sisters visiting us from other world countries and not just EU countries regarding their bus fares. Although they made my life miserable, I’d like to dedicated a song to them “Distance Drums”

The problem is we never had a plan A in the first place let alone plan B.

What ever you say.these buses are too big for Malta.

Suffered millions of losses after getting so many millions from our taxes? Go tell it to the marines Arriva and GOOD RIDDANCE. Hope you get out ansd stay out of Malta.

I thought PLAN B actually signified Bugger Off!Whenever do we have a Plan B -why even the EU never had one ,nor ever contemplated one ,for the possible failure of the Euro!