Transport in Malta

[4] Traffic in Malta drives on the left, being one of only four countries in Europe to do so, along with the United Kingdom, Ireland and Cyprus.

[10] Buses are the primary method of public transport for the Maltese Islands and have been in operation there since 1905, offering a cheap and frequent service to many parts of Malta and Gozo.

Prior to their reform there were approximately 500 buses in public transit service, most of them privately owned by the bus drivers themselves, and operated to a unified timetable set by the transport authority.

Unlike the system it replaced, the buses were owned and operated by a single company with the drivers working as employees of Arriva Malta.

[14] During the closing days of December 2014, the Times of Malta and other newspapers were reporting that the company had now signed contracts and purchased the existing operation for 8 million euros.

The existing name - Malta Public Transport - is to be retained instead of using Autobuses Urbanos de León and nothing will have changed from a passenger perspective initially.

These new buses will number 142 in total and used to augment the existing fleet as the revised route network is incrementally rolled out during the course of 2015 with the full service planned not expected to be fully realized until 2016, at which time the 23 million euro subsidy for 2015 will rise to 29 million thereafter.

It was a single-track line in metre gauge, operating from 1883 to 1931 between the capital city of Valletta and the army barracks at Mtarfa / Mdina.

[23][24] The tracks ran on the road parallel to the Valletta-Mdina railway line, which also allowed the traffic system to be used by cars and buses.

[28] In 2021 the Maltese government unveiled a proposal for a €6.2 billion metro network,[29] to consist of three lines and 25 stations, of which the majority would be underground.

They have now since been closed, the land on the former has now been converted into a national park, stadium and the Crafts Village visitor attraction.

The Malta Aviation Museum is also situated here, preserving several aircraft including Hurricane and Spitfire fighters which defended the island in World War II.