Tag: metro
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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…
