The inhabitants of the Saint Malo conurbation have been making the most of an entirely redesigned network since 6 January. A key component is more frequent, more direct, faster and better-connected buses. 

As announced when the Malo Agglo Transports (MAT) network was taken over four months ago, RATP Dev implemented its new transport offering on 6 January 2020. The objective is to optimise the network to improve service quality for the inhabitants of the Saint Malo conurbation and encourage them to give up their car and prefer the bus. This is an ambitious challenge, entailing several significant improvements. 

400,000 additional kilometres

The new network is denser; new lines have been created to make passengers’ daily life easier, including a direct service to camping sites, a new line for the Paul-Féval car park, direct access to the beaches along the entire coast 14 weeks per year (between June and September), buses on Sundays throughout the conurbation and new connections with the La  Fresnais railway station. Soon, the new Aquamalo water sports centre will be catered to by line 1 and peri-urban lines. 

More frequency

Buses on the three main urban lines in Saint Malo (lines 1, 2, and 3) now pass every 15 minutes instead of 20 minutes before. Passengers also save time getting to the Paul Féval car park, with a bus every 15 minutes and even every 7 minutes during major events and the summer period. 

An extended schedule

On structural urban lines buses now run until 9.30 p.m. Monday to Wednesday and until 11 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and every day in summer. These services will also be adapted for hospital employees and their atypical hours when starting and ending shifts. 

Shorter route times

In proposing more direct routes between the eighteen municipalities in the conurbation and Saint Malo station, the MAT network addresses one of the main concerns in the region: compete with cars. As well, with express services making fewer stops, journey times are reduced by one to 38 minutes depending on the municipality! 

More frequent, more modern services

A new free smartphone app, schedule guides for towns, schools, camping sites and companies and information letters to support the launch of the new network are just some of the new features making passengers’ life easier.