I am not of Maltese origin but I am a resident now. How much Malta fucked up transit and transportation is really interesting. It's as bad as the United States

I am not of Maltese origin but I am a resident now. How much Malta fucked up transit and transportation is really interesting. It's as bad as the United States despite unlike the US the distances are short and the population density is high (the whole thing is 17 mi x 9 mi, the density of the entire country compares to Bellevue, WA and the towns themselves are ten times more dense). Malta is #10 country in the world in cars owned per people leading to constant congestion https://i.redd.it/fnrrri2k1n8b1.png https://i.redd.it/fnrrri2k1n8b1.png, some sections of the roads are impossible to walk, some transit connections are near impossible to make because of the lack of crossings and sidewalks. Buses are infrequent and notoriously unreliable. And buses are all there are, not even a trolley bus much less a tram or something. And they are not fixing this, I tried to do public transit to the nearest Lidl and the road was freshly rebuilt (not even fully complete yet) and they didn't add a sidewalk. The public transit mobile app is useless. This is not just me grumbling check https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/people-use-bus-reliable-service-consumers-say.1008627 https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/people-use-bus-reliab... for more.