Malabar Transportation Guide: State Roads, Town Streets, Rocky Point Road and Buses

Malabar's main roads, U.S. 1 and Malabar Road, are state roads that FDOT plans to repave (FDOT project 434414-1), while the Town of Malabar keeps a list of accepted town streets (Accepted Streets list).

FDOT lists U.S. 1 as State Road 5 and Malabar Road as State Road 514 on its Malabar project pages, and it treats Babcock Street, State Road 507, as the west end of the Malabar Road segment it plans to repave.

The town list, titled Public Rights-of-Way Accepted Streets as of 1/25/2024, records each Malabar street the town has accepted with its width and, for many, its length (Accepted Streets list). The Public Works and Town Roads guide in the Malabar government section explains how a road gets added.

Problems on a Malabar town street go to Public Works through its online service request form, which has categories for road maintenance, drainage maintenance and overgrown shrubbery in the right of way, or by phone at Town Hall, 321-727-7764, option 2 (Town of Malabar Public Works). The Public Works Building is at 1435 Centre Street and keeps hours of 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

FDOT plans to repave the southbound lanes of U.S. 1 through Malabar from north of Rocky Point Road to south of Malabar Road, a 2.561 mile project with a $3.2 million construction estimate and a letting date of July 7, 2027 (FDOT project 452883-1).

The U.S. 1 project is in design at a design cost of $420,000, and FDOT says it will update pedestrian curb ramps where needed to meet current Americans with Disabilities Act standards. It is paired with a second Malabar project: repaving Malabar Road from Babcock Street to U.S. 1, 3.524 miles through Malabar and Palm Bay, with a $570,000 design cost, a $4 million construction estimate and the same July 7, 2027 letting date (FDOT project 434414-1).

Both Malabar project pages name design project manager Jude Jean-Francois at (386) 943-5487 for questions.

Rocky Point Road in Malabar was rebuilt after the shoreline beside it eroded and parts of the road collapsed: a 2024 contract scheduled shoreline restoration in four areas, and the town planned to repair, repave and restripe the whole road afterward (Rocky Point Road Reconstruction).

The Malabar Town Council approved the work at a special meeting on February 26, 2024. Custom Built Marine Construction, Inc. was scheduled to start April 1, 2024, with completion estimated for September 1, 2024, and docks or private items inside the right of way in the four work areas were removed and not put back. The town told residents to expect lane closures and flaggers throughout construction.

One stale detail on the town page: its project updates still say roadway repair was scheduled to begin August 16 and final paving September 9, with no year attached, so the page reads as if the work were upcoming. The road sits in the town's Coastal Planning Area near the U.S. Highway 1 and Rocky Point Road juncture (Coastal Management Element, page 1), and the plan names the roads in the Rocky Point and Coquina Point subdivisions, with two drainage outfalls, as the public infrastructure in that Coastal Area (page 5). The Rocky Point Road reconstruction in Malabar guide covers the revetment design, the dock removals and the paving.

The Town of Malabar budget for 2026-2027 lists eleven street and road items, led by $450,000 for road improvements and $189,064 for Benjamin (FY 26/27 capital list), inside a Streets and Roads line of $1,953,376 (budget summary).

The budget summary also shows $630,386 in debt proceeds used for road repaving (FY 2026-2027 budget summary). The Malabar budget message describes these as planned capital improvement projects that require additional Town Council approvals (FY 26/27 budget message), and the summary figures come from the budget the town advertised for its September 21, 2026 final hearing.

The same Malabar capital list adds road crew equipment, a $75,000 F350 flat bed with tow package and a $10,500 loader root rake attachment, plus a separate $25,000 Benjamin Widening Project under flood control (FY 26/27 capital list). The budget message says the Malabar Streets and Roads Department has carried two equipment operator vacancies over the last two fiscal years; the medium equipment operator position is omitted for FY 26/27, and recruiting continues for the heavy equipment operator (FY 26/27 budget message).

No 321Transit bus route is named for Malabar; the route list names several Palm Bay routes (321Transit routes).

Space Coast Area Transit, branded 321Transit, runs Brevard County's buses, and its route list includes 22 South Palm Bay, 23 West Palm Bay, 25 Melbourne and Palm Bay, and 27 East Palm Bay.

A Malabar rider pays the countywide fares: $1.50 for a full fare ride, $0.75 for a reduced fare, $12.00 for a 10-ride pass and $42.00 for a 30 day pass (321Transit fares). Children under five ride free and transfers cost nothing. TD Paratransit costs $1.50 per ride for those who qualify. The 321Transit site offers a trip planner for finding the stop nearest a Malabar address, and its Palm Bay Park and Ride lot is at 342 Emerson Drive NW in Palm Bay (321Transit).

For walking and cycling, the Al Tuttle Trail is a 10 foot wide paved multi-use trail reached from the Sand Hill Trail Head on Marie Street in Malabar and running along the Malabar Scrub Sanctuary (Space Coast TPO). The town plan also warns that route choices for leaving Malabar in an evacuation are limited (Coastal Management Element, page 6).

Malabar sits on the Indian River Lagoon near Melbourne Airport, Port Canaveral and I-95, as the town's Florida Trail Town presentation describes it (Malabar Trail Town presentation, page 7).

In a hurricane, the Malabar plan warns that route choices out of town are limited (Coastal Management Element, page 6), and its stated objective is to work with Brevard County toward an evacuation time of less than twelve hours for a Category III storm (Coastal Management Element, page 12). The town's emergency FAQ advises Malabar residents to evacuate early and to travel tens of miles, not hundreds (Town of Malabar emergency FAQ).

For trail users, the Malabar Trail Town presentation sets out a plan to complete the Al Tuttle Trail south to Grant-Valkaria (Trail Town presentation, page 55).

The Rocky Point Road reconstruction in Malabar guide is the one deep guide in this section today, and the table points each other Malabar transportation question to its key fact and official page.

Last verified: October 15, 2026, on the Town of Malabar, FDOT and 321Transit websites.