Editing Transport in Mauritius (section)

==Rail transport==
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A public and industrial railway system existed from the 1860s to the 1960s.<ref>{{cite news|author=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.-->|date=21 September 1868|title=From a late number of ''Engineering'' <!--no title in the source, title made up-->|pages=6–7|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13173084?searchTerm=Mauritius|access-date=30 November 2010}}</ref> Due to persistent unprofitability from 1948 to 1953, it was finally closed in 1964. From 1964 to 2020, there were no railways in Mauritius.

To cope with increasing road traffic congestion, a [[light rail]] system, [[Metro Express (Mauritius)|Metro Express]], was built between [[Curepipe]] and [[Port Louis]]. The project consisted of a number of phases; the first phase, Port Louis to [[Beau Bassin-Rose Hill|Rose Hill]], went operational in January 2020. When completed, the system covered a distance of some 25&nbsp;km, with some 19 stations, many located in town centres along the route with existing transport terminals. The end-to-end journey time would be approximately 41 minutes and coaches would be air-conditioned. Headways would vary by time of day, but are expected to be of the order of 6 minutes in peak periods. Access to stations would be by an integrated system of comfortable and reliable feeder buses.<ref>{{cite web|title=Light Rail Transit|url=http://www.gov.mu/portal/site/mpisite/menuitem.593893dce00ef85a8f77861048a521ca/#top|work=Ministry of Public Infrastructure, National Development Unit, Land Transport & Shipping – Light Rail Transit|publisher=Ministry of Public Infrastructure, National Development Unit, Land Transport & Shipping|access-date=2 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110909234820/http://www.gov.mu/portal/site/mpisite/menuitem.593893dce00ef85a8f77861048a521ca/ |archive-date=9 September 2011 }}</ref> A 3.4-km branch with two stations will be built as well.<ref>{{cite web |title=Metro Express: PM reiterates commitment to modernise public transport system |url=https://govmu.org/EN/Pages/NewsDetails.aspx?n=Metro-Express--PM-reiterates-commitment-to-modernise-public-transport-system.aspx |website=Government of Mauritius |access-date=29 June 2021 |date=20 June 2021}}</ref>