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Partial summer bus schedule published

Malta Independent Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 19:47 Last update: about 12 years ago

Malta Public Transport has announced that following discussions with various stakeholders, a number of bus services have been introduced to cater for various demands during the summer months.

These services include extensions to some of the current routes to cater for particular summer demands such as services to Ghar Lapsi, shuttle services catering for a number of localities, night services at the weekend and the deployment of additional ‘extra’ buses in a flexible and frequent way to meet increases in demands on various routes.

Some of the extensions to the bus services have already started operating, among them extensions to Routes 101 and 102 such that during these are now also serving Ghajn Tuffieha, Mgarr and Gnejna.

On the same lines, Route 109 has also been extended, and as normal practice during summer months, it is now providing a service to Ghar Lapsi.

Meanwhile, the services on Route X3, connecting the Airport to Bugibba has also been extended to cater for demand later at night, with a trip departing at 2235hrs.

A number of shuttle services have also been introduced,scheduled to leave in coordination with the arrival times of buses and offering thus extensions to the ‘regular’ bus services.

Among these shuttle services are Route 3A, which connects Kalkara Strand to Rinella and Smart City Centre with a service every 30 minutes Monday to Saturday and hourly on Sundays; Route 37A which connects hourly Cirkewwa, Armier and Ghadira Bay; and Route 71A which provides an hourly service from Zurrieq to Wied Iz-Zurrieq and Blue Grotto, Hagar Qim and Ghar Lapsi.

As from Friday 18th July, Night Bus Services will beintroduced. These will be providing bus services from St Julians to various localities around Malta, and will be operating on Friday-to-Saturday nights and Saturday-to-Sunday nights, reflecting commuters’ demands.

Night Buses are all denoted by the letter ‘N’ and the services introduced recently are as follows:  N3 (Cottonera), N21(San Gwann, Mosta, Naxxar, Gharghur), N31(Burmarrad, Naxxar Mosta), N32 (Msida, Birkirkara, Lija), N52 (H’Attard, Rabat, Dingli), N61 (Msida, Blata l-Bajda, Hamrun, Birkirkara Zebbug, Siggiewi), N62 (Marsa, Qormi, Siggiewi, Zebbug), N71 (Safi, Kirkop, Zurrieq, Mqabba, Airport), N81 (Paola, Tarxien, Zejtun, Gudja), N82 (Paola, Tarxien, Zejtun Birzebbuga).

Other night services such as Route N11 (Cirkewwa to St Julians via Bugibba), Route N13 (Valletta to St Julian’s via Sliema) and Route N91 (St Julian's to Marsaskala) operate all year round and will continue to operate as usual during the summer months.

Additionally, Malta Public Transport will also be deploying a number of ‘extra’ buses which throughout the day will cater for the fluctuations and spikes in commuter demand on various routes.

Meanwhile, the remaining pending issues with the General Workers’ Union still need to be resolved before the full summer schedules cannot come into force.

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