I am afraid to think about my death,
When it shall be, and whether in great pain
I shall rise up and fight the air for breath
Or calmly wait the bursting of my brain.
I am no coward who could seek in fear
A folk-lore solace or sweet Indian tales:
I know dead men are deaf and cannot hear
The singing of a thousand nightingales.
I know dead men are blind and cannot see
The friend that shuts in horror their big eyes,
And they are witless -- O, I'd rather be
A living mouse than dead as a man dies.
James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915)
1 comment:
Dear Romano,
I am one of those who unfortunately had an accident on my bicycle in 2001 and since then have not ridden my bike through fear. I am afraid I have not overcome my phobia yet and have my bike in the garage just in case one day cyclists will be viewed in the way they are respected in Britain. One thing I would like to point out the cycle lanes stop - then the cyclist is perhaps expected to carry the bike to the next cycle lane whilst drivers are totally reckless when it comes to respect why not have the promenades available to cyclists - signs are stuck everywhere - no bicycles no dogs- I would understand such a rule only if the transport system is changed where roads are made safe not only to cyclists but to car drivers and motorcycles. Sometimes I wonder whether politicians have a special suspension in their extravagant cars or whether they use a helicopter to get from A to B since the state of the roads & pavements in Malta is terrible even countries of the developing world have better roads then us and we can't get the excuse that it is a result of the sun's rays- Tunisia have roads that are better than ours. If one goes to Pembroke near the BMX track one can notice the way the British built the streets- it would have been better to get British experts to the rock not German ones.
i would like to know which roads in Germany are so narrow- the road that leads to Rabat where there is Mount Carmel Hospital is a typical road that shows carelessness and irresponsibility- the central strip can be used by the nurses or patients as a football pitch whilst the road becomes so narrow that if an accident had to take place or some patient needs to be transferred to Mater Dei in a traffic jam a helicopter would be required. Another road that shows the bullshit German experts advised is the 'new'bypass that leads from Gharghur to Targa Gap from tal Balal- there was a time when the street was pitch dark apart from cats'eyes that was done under the ex Minister Censu Galea- as one gets to the Telgha ta'Alla u Ommu one could notice the amount of traffic signs there were - if one had to actually look at each and every sign one would have to get the bumper to bumper papers out - moreover, as you get to the roundabout the central strip that has trees coming out of it is so wide that when an accident took place I sat waiting for about an hour till the police turned up on site as one cannot overtake- what happens if a fire engine or ambulance needs to get past?
Why are we paying taxes to have this state of the roads and to have members of the Civil Service walking around Valletta as they have nothing better to do- why use our taxes to pay messengers when they can be definitely reduced by half- the Government is considered to be the largest employer but how many members of the Civil Service have actually something to do is another story altogether. Come on guys wake up and face reality our taxes can be used to fix the streets to have all street lights turned to solar energy as they did in Israel, I thought we are in the EU but it was just a rush to get into the EU before 2004 that things were taken seriously to meet the Acquis standards now that we joined we went back to life before 1987 where it's who you know and not how much you know that counts whilst modernisation went down the drain - just remember that in January 2009 there was a huge problem in Sliema Road that leads to San Gwann they only patched a PART - not all after a local newspaper recorded the amount of HOFOR rather than potholes in the above mentioned street.
How about the pavements and the amount of falls people face- go to Paceville in front of Footloose and see the state of the Pavement- go to St. Julian's and see the street that leads to the Car park of Eden Cinema's - it looks like rough sea not asphalt.
rgds
Angie
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