Muscat wants free public transport for all... one day

Malta should one day have free public transport for all, but first it needs the infrastructure to facilitate it, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said on Sunday.  Addressing a Labour Party event outside the ONE studios in Marsa, Dr Muscat detailed his vision for the island's road network, which he said needed wider roads to handle an increase in public buses in the future.  "At the moment there are barely enough bus lanes for the existing fleet of public buses." Dr Muscat said the government's transport plan had already seen an unprecedented number of children being shuttled to and from school everyday for free. Read: Many free school transport buses are already full This he said was not only easing the burden on the current road network, but was also saving thousands of families hundreds of Euros in fuel prices.  "And these savings are not even the main point of the reform, they are just a byproduct," he said, adding that this saving for families had come before next month's budget.  "What we want is a culture shift, to public transport. Having school children use the school buses and having young people travel for free on the buses encourages this change," he said.  Dr Muscat said...