The number of bus passengers last year exceeded 40 million for the first time in 25 years, according to figures released by Transport Malta.
The transport watchdog’s annual report says the buses carried 43.7 million passengers in 2014, a nearly 11 per cent increase on 2013.
It was the period during which public transport was nationalised after the premature departure of Arriva as the operator. The service was being run by Malta Public Transport, which handed over to Spanish transport company Autobuses de Leon last January.
The patronage figure for 2014 was 10 per cent over the peak of 1990, when 39.8 million passengers used the bus service.
Read more in the Times of Malta.