At the moment there are 407 buses registered as vehicles for public transport, Transport Minister Ian Borg announced in response to a Parliamentary Question on Monday.
Asked by PD Leader Godfrey Farrugia what the total number of buses being used for public transport in Malta was at the moment, and how many new buses had been added to the fleet in 2017 and 2018, Borg answered that there were 407 busses registered in the fleet at the moment. The transport minister said that 28 new vehicles had been added to the fleet in 2017 whilst seven had been scrapped.
In 2018 meanwhile, only one new bus had been added to fleet whilst none had been scrapped.
Asked how many bus drivers were working in the public transport sector, Borg said that there was a total of 1,075 drivers working, 850 of which were employed on a full time basis whilst the rest were employed on a part time basis.
In terms of public transport, the recently announced Budget for the forthcoming year announced that free public transport schemes would be expanded to three new demographics; children between the ages of 14 to 15 years old, full time students above the age of 20, and all persons with disability.
These demographics join that of youths aged between 16 and 20 years of age, who already could take advantage of the free public transport scheme.
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