Malta's Green Buses- Then & Now

There has always been a fascination in Malta’s. In recent years this has possibly waned as the fleet has been modernised and standardised. However, after the period when the buses were operated by Arriva that finished at the beginning of 2014 the bus network was nationalised as ‘Malta Public Transport’. In January 2015 Malta Public Transport was re-privatised and sold to Autobuses Urbanos de Leon (ALESA), a subsidiary of National Express – retaining the ‘Malta Public Transport’ fleet name. At around that time a new livery of white and bright green was introduced, recalling memories of a bygone era. The ‘spray-green’ livery was introduced to all route buses in the mid-1970s and was superseded by the final yellow, white and orange colours in the mid-1990s. This double disc DVD features Malta’s green buses. Disc one goes back to Malcolm King’s footage from the late 1970s. Disc two was filmed by the Independent Transport Videos cameras in October 2019 in order to see the current fleet in operation.