Consortium News

From next Monday, May, 23rd, three intercity Malaga Area Metropolitan Transport Consortium intercity bus routes will include in its roads the bus stop Cristo de la Agonía in Alhaurin el Grande. This stop, only in Alhaurin el Grande to Malaga road sense, is located between Casas Nuevas and La Fuente. Specifically, those bus routes are M-230 Malaga-Coin (por Alhaurin de la Torre y Alhaurin el Grande), M-334 Málaga-Guaro (por Alhaurin de la Torre y Alhaurin el Grande) and M-344 Málaga-Tolox (por Cártama y Alhaurin el Grande). Further information can be consulted on our new mobile app Consorcio Malaga (available now for Android and iOS), on the Consortium’s web, on its official Facebook , Twitter and YouTube page, or by calling the [...]

On Sunday, May, 22nd will take place the IV Triathlon Benalmádena, with 750 meter swimming, 20 km on bike and 5 km running. It will start at 10:00 with the swimming event leaving from Malapesquera beach and arriving at Club Nautico Maritimo Benalmadena. Then, cycling event with four laps through a circuit including San Juan Sebastian Elcano, Avenida Alay, Avda. Antonio Machado until Rotonda de los Molinillos, and Avenida García Lorca till the Club de Hielo roundabout, and back. Finally, foot race with two laps of a circuit across Puerto Marina's dockage area and seafront. The bike circuit will lead traffic holds up on Avenida de Antonio Machado from Carlota Alessandri, nearby the former Melia Torremolinos Hotel, to the roundabout [...]

Transport operator Portillo Avanza in collaboration with Malaga Area Metropolitan Transport Consortium, is managing a fieldwork to determine through surveys the provided service perception in its public transport bus routes, as well as the level of satisfaction perceived by its customers. The report will analyze the results of this survey, approached to a statistically representative sample of transport customers on each lines served by this transport operator. It includes two of the most significant Málaga Metropolitan Area bus routes, M-110 Málaga-Benalmádena Costa and M-160 Malaga-Rincon de la Victoria-Cotomar. The surveys will be conducted in electronic form, and it is translated into several languages. Survey will take place on May, 17th, 18th, 19th, 24th, 25th and 26th by properly accredited staff. [...]

On May, Saturday, 14th, Málaga wont sleep, due to La Noche en Blanco, with lot of art and cultural activities from 20:00 to 02:00. Museums, civil buildings, restaurants, bookshops, streets and squares will offer music, painting, literature, children's stories, graffities, gastronomy and lot of more performance. Enjoy it on public transport. Malaga Area Metropolitan Transport Consortium enforce its night services. Bus routes M-110 Málaga-Benalmádena Costa, M-160 Málaga-Rincón de la Victoria-Cotomar and M-168 Rincón de la Victoria-Málaga will offer more services. Stopping at Muelle Heredia, nearby Puerto de Málaga, bus route M-110 Málaga-Benalmádena Costa has departures from Málaga till 02:00, bus route M-160 Málaga-Rincón de la Victoria-Cotomartill 00:00 and bus route M-168 Rincón de la Victoria-Málaga (Búho) till 03:30 (M-168 fare [...]

Cártama Estación will live some great days during San Isidro Labrador Fair, which will take place from May,12th to 15th. The fair activities will affect traffic on some roads and streets, and thus on several Malaga Area Metropolitan Transport Consortium bus routes. On Saturday, May, 14th due to San Isidro Labrador procession, will be no traffic on Avenida de Andalucía, at the height of Carmen Juanola and Iglesia streets. This issue will take place at 20:00 pm (approx.) and last about 45 minutes. This could affect to bus route M-131 Málaga-Cártama, departing from Malaga to 19:45, and from Ampliación de Cártama at 19:55. In that case, the route would link directly from Cártama Pueblo through Guadalhorce highway, avoiding Cártama Estación. [...]

Due to the well-received reopening of Caminito del Rey, from May, 10th, Málaga Area Metropolitan Transport Consortium will increase the service to the bus route M-347 Caminito del Rey / El Chorro - El Kiosco, the shuttle that connects the two access points to the natural setting, the Southern access (bus stop Caminito del Rey/El Chorro, in Álora) and the Northern access (bus stop El Kiosco, in Ardales). We would remind you the timetables of this service, adapted to customers demand: Tuesday to friday: Departures from Southern access (bus stop Caminito del Rey/El Chorro, in Álora) from 09:00 to 12:00 every hour, from 12:30 to 15:30 every half hour and from 16:30 to 19:30 every hour, and departures from Northern [...]

Due to the great reception given to this service in recent years, from May, 1st, to October, 30th, customers from Cártama and Alhaurin de la Torre could access to Los Alamos beach by public transport, with the enlargement of bus route M-136 Cartama-Alhaurin de la Torre-Plaza Mayor-Los Alamos. This service, which connects from Monday to Friday (only working days) these municipalities with Plaza Mayor, a shopping and leisure mall, will extend for six months its route till Los Alamos Beach. Soon it will be available on our website and social networks all information about Special Summer Services 2016 which the Malaga Area Metropolitan Transport Consortium offers to the customers in the metropolitan area towns, for enjoying the beach, shopping and [...]

After the approval of a new management model, Caminito del Rey will be resumed on April, 22nd. Thus, Málaga Area Metropolitan Transport Consortium will return the service to the bus route M-347 Caminito del Rey / El Chorro - El Kiosko, a shuttle that connects the two access points to the natural setting, the Northern access (bus stop El Kiosko, in Ardales) and the Southern access (bus stop Caminito del Rey/El Chorro, in Álora). We would remind you the timetables of this service: Tuesday to friday: Departures from Southern access (bus stop Caminito del Rey/El Chorro, in Álora) every hour from 12:30 to 20:30, and departures from Northern access (bus stop El Kiosko, in Ardales) every hour since 13:00 to [...]

From April, 21st, Cártama Pueblo will have a new bus stop, "Cementerio", located on the road from Cártama to Alhaurín el Grande, nearby Cártama's Cementery and Elementary School La Mata. In order to ensure the safety of passengers, this bus stop will be operative on only one side of the road. Málaga Area Metropolian Transport Consortium will include this bus stop on the following bus routes itineraries: M-118 Cártama-Teatinos M-131 Málaga-Cártama M-147 Málaga-Teatinos-Cártama M-148 Málaga-El Sexmo-Cártama M-336 Guaro-Málaga (por Cártama y Alhaurín el Grande) M-344 Málaga-Tolox (por Cártama y Alhaurín el Grande) Further information can be consulted on our new mobile app Consorcio Malaga (available now for Android and iOS), on the Consortium’s web, on its official Facebook , Twitter [...]

Málaga prepares its 26th Half Marathon next sunday, April, 10th at 9.30 am. This running event will test the strength of the runners through 21,097 kilometers, starting at Avenue Manuel Álvar (between Athletics Stadium and INACUA) with the following route: Stadium roundabout - Azucarera roundabout - Azucarera bridge, 1st roundabout Parque Comercial Málaga Nostrum - giro 180° - Azucarera bridge - Azucarera roundabout - Stadium roundabout - Avda. Manuel Álvar - C/. Pacífico - Paseo Marítimo Antonio Machado - Avda. de Manuel Agustín Heredia - Paseo de los Curas - Paseo de la Farola - turning around Glorieta de Jorge Guillen - Paseo Marítimo Ciudad de Melilla - Avenida de Cánovas del Castillo - Paseo de los Curas - Plaza [...]