Tag: metro
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BREAKING: The Nationalist Party lays out plans for an underground metro
The Nationalist Party has held a press conference to launch its proposal for a metro in Malta. The metro is planned to pass from the Malta International Airport to Sliema which includes the most intense traffic line in Malta, and will have eight stops. The presentation is being given by Julian Borg, a PN election…
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Transport Minister Chris Bonett attacks PN’s metro proposal for lack of planning: but his plans come short of solutions and targets
Transport Minister Chris Bonett has crticised the Nationalist Party’s proposal for a metro citing their lack of plans, but the Transport Minister is not in a strong position to defend his plans. The Labour Party has been consistently attacking the Nationalist Party for lacking properly made plans in its proposals and manifesto. You can view…
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Transport Minister says Metro is “unaffordable”
Replying to questions by the Times of Malta, Transport Minister Chris Bonett said that the Labour government will not build a metro because it is too expensive. This is why the government is instead opting for a railway-line from the airport to Saint Paul’s Bay which will cost up to €2.8 billion and 15 years…
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Labour government ditches mass metro plans: proposes railway-line from Airport to Saint Paul’s Bay instead
I’ve taken my time to read, research and think about the Labour government’s public transport plans launched yesterday under its policy campaign called “Malta in Motion.” This is what I could udnerstand from all of it. The plans were launched yesterday by Transport Minister Chris Bonett and they are being promoted to the press by…
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Malta Vision 2050: no metro and no bridge to Gozo
The Labour government’s Malta Vision 2050 does not include a metro and neither a bridge in its plans. On transport, the plan makes several PR-like statements with no substance such as “eco-friendly transport” and “private-public-integrated-transport-systems” but provides no details. At best, they put a stock photo of a metro in the background of one of…
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Malta with the highest rate of buses on the roads in the EU
According to the latest Eurostat statistics, Malta has the highest rate of buses on the streets in the EU. There were a total of 737,142 buses and motor coaches (including trolleybuses, mini-buses and mini-coaches) in the EU, with an average of 1.6 buses and motor coaches per 1 000 inhabitants. Malta had the highest rate…
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The elephant in the room while Minister Miriam Dalli posts billboards of trees
It is very strange how no one is talking about what is probably the biggest systematic risk to the government’s finances right now. In The Maltese Herald we have always argued that €200 million every year in energy and fuel subsidies are unsustainable to the government’s finances and the government needs to find a solution to…
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Indefinite electricity tariffs means the metro’s power will also be subsidised
The government’s increasing energy and electricity subsidies pose a systematic challenge and barrier not only in public finances, but also to new mega-projects like the metro. The Finance Minister isn’t factoring this problem in his concerns about the metro project and this is why there is no definite plan to cut back on energy and…
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Metro project is metroing
The Finance Minister’s comments about the metro project he gave to the Times of Malta are making the rounds after the Minister poured some caution added with some cynicism over the national dream to resolve the traffic problem with a radical solution. The Finance Minister has also clashed in the Cabinet with Transport Minister Chris…
