Bus passenger tells of ‘journey from hell’

A woman who was forced to use the bus had the “journey from hell” last Tuesday, ending up back where she started after a two-hour detour. Nicola Sullivan boarded the 203 bus near her home in Balluta Bay at about 8.10pm with the intention of meeting her friend at the Corinthia Palace Hotel in Attard. She would normally drive herself but her car was undergoing costly repairs to damages it sustained when she drove into an open trench filled with seawater on The Strand earlier this month. Having phoned Arriva earlier in the day and being told that bus 203 would definitely stop near the Corinthia, Ms Sullivan, 48, was not expecting any drama on the journey. However, when the bus got to Tal-Qroqq, near the University, the driver pulled over and informed his three passengers he would have to drive to the Marsa depot because the bus was low on fuel. When they arrived at the depot, Ms Sullivan claims that the driver told them he would not be going any further. “At this point, a Maltese-Australian passenger went berserk and demanded the bus continued the journey,” said Ms Sullivan, who is British. The bus driver did as he was told and, after dropping off the other two passengers, he told Ms...