In the two months after the start of Arriva’s public transport service on July 3, its bus fleet suffered 144 mechanical failures.

Answering a parliamentary question by Nationalist MP Jean Pierre Farrugia, Transport Minister Austin Gatt said the fleet had 78 second-hand buses, of which 50 were articulated and 28 taken over from the previous PTA service.

The 28 were not all in service yet, pending enhancements envisaged in the agreement with Arriva. They had been temporarily substituted by other vehicles imported from UK.

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