Some e-scooter riders need to be tamed
As the Maltese have given up on cycling as too hot or too steep, technology has produced a new fold-up transport mode ideal for storing in rental apartments where bicycles can’t be kept.
Let’s face it, turning each and every one of those scoots into cars instead ‒ cars that would need even more space to park ‒ doesn’t bear thinking about. Nor do the fossil fuel emissions fines to the EU, that all drivers would then have to pay for, if we did that.
Love them or hate them, e-scooters are here to stay.
Traffic lights on roundabouts
I feel that there are no real brains at Infrastructure Malta working on these road-widening schemes.
Traffic lights are not hear
Stop repeating untruths
I wonder how the present chairman of the Planning Authority would, in a written economics examination, respond to the classical old que
The new Kappara pedestrian subway
I just wanted to say it’s great that the Kappara pedestrian subway is finally completed, creating a safe walking link between Kappara and San Ġwann and Zammit-Clapp and Sliema.
Being a bit retro in design, it’s a shame it’s not cycle-friendly but the three-year wait was worth it for those who want to cross on foot.
Jim Wightman – St Julian’s
Is Green Your Building scheme just a chimera?
A typical Maltese town house. Photo: Shutterstock.com
As some of the readers might know, the Planning Authority (read, our government) has recently launched a scheme called Green Your Building, ref: https://www.pa.org.mt/www.pa.org.mt/green-your-building.
Using cyclists as scapegoats
Wayne Flask, in ‘Wake up and smell the tarmac’ (January 5), cites an Infrastructure Malta architect as admitting to a resident that the reason for the land uptake is “the fact that ‘there are the towers now…’”.
So not the need for cycle lanes? This isn’t the first time that cycle lanes and cyclists have been used as scapegoats for land uptake by an authority that has removed far more where they are needed most and slipped some largely cosmetic one-sided footpaths that cyclists can share (if only they could get on and off them) with pedestrians.