New bus fares and cards

Duxx wrote:

on sunday and public holiday?
excuse my scepticism but don't see that working to well

some people reported gettiing their cards lol still not got mine not happy

redders_61 wrote:

Yes and they told my roomie to buy a weekly today and they honour them till expiry date.

right very irate cool as talinja are now saying that you will get refunded the credit for your old saver card but until then you will have to pay for the bus as usual- which is fine but payday is tommorrow lunchtime so i have no idea how thy think people are going to get to work and there are apparently from what i have seen loads and loads of people like us in this situation.

i dont see how they didnt think having a chanegover period would be a good idea.

i mean its takes the biscuit.
as a disabled person who relies on the bus to travel places i cant go out till matt has gotten paid and been able to top his up as it is he will have to walk to sliema tommorrow morning to make sure he gets to work

their standard response is that its a new system and the saver cards are the old system - they simply do not care who they rip off  .

i feel for the many who still havent recieved even a temporary card.

robpw2 wrote:

they should have postponed the new system till thet had sorted it

They have for some people for a week :-

"Malta Public Transport has today announced that the current two hour 30c ticket for Kartanzjan/Maltese 60+ ID Holders, KNPD Special ID/Blue Badge Holders, and Children under 10 will still be available for a limited period until Tuesday, the 7th of July.

“We appreciate that this new ticketing system is a major change in the way people travel by bus, and we would like to offer perhaps the more vulnerable users, a little more time to get acquainted with this system by allowing those that may have not got their tallinja card to still buy the existing two hour ticket on the bus at 30c instead of paying €2 from tomorrow, Tuesday, the 1st of July,” said Commercial Director Daniel Grech."

Ray

redders_61 wrote:

Fights at valetta police arresting people ffs I think I stay in and watch Wimbledon. Glad MPT don't run a brewery

If Carlsberg ran a bus company.......

robpw2 wrote:

don't get me started on the police arresting a man who was a victim of a racial assualt.

Just read about that on the TOM, absolutely disgraceful. 

Only in Malta.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/vi … -to.574819

Toon wrote:

did we really expect anything else...?

That's the point :-) Since 2 months everyone's making jokes about the chaos that will happen on 1st July ... well, here it is :-) Don't be surprised now that all predictions became reality ;-)