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SPECIAL TASK FORCE ON DEVELOPING INVESTMENT PROJECT
PIPELINE IN THE EU- MALTA PROJECT LIST

Project No 3

TRANSPORT – Urban Transport: Metro and Trams

Construction of mono rail project involving mixed over-ground and

underground lines running North- South and West-East intersecting at
key traffic junction and feeding at its various stops into other above

ground public transport means.

Project details:

Malta has a very high concentration of motor vehicles (332,455 licenced
motor vehicles, as at 30 September 2014 approximately 0.75 units per
1
capita) and this causes substantial traffic congestion at peak times in
main traffic intersections. As at 2013 licensed vehicles for population

over 18 years (driving age) was 0.928 per capita and vehicles per driving
2
license holders was 1.375 per capita .

In spite of efforts to render public transport services accessible and
reliable, efforts that have so far largely failed due execution and policy

mishaps, vehicle private ownership remains the preferred means of
transport. Passenger cars between Q3/2012 and Q3/2014 increased by

5.42% in spite of a license given to a foreign company ARRIVA (UK
registered subsidiary of DB-Germany) to deliver state-subsidised better

public transport starting operations in July 2011 and folding up in
December 2013 after incurring substantial losses and general quality
failure.

In contrast, Malta has one of the lowest number of facilities for multi-

level traffic inter-section systems. Many key traffic junctions are badly
served with antiquated colonial roundabout legacy systems which cause

1
National Statistics Office, Motor Vehicles: Q3/2014,
; last accessed 27 October 2014
2
National Statistics Office, Transport Statistics 2014
page 109 Table 3.25 last accessed 12
November 2014

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