On September 1, this Thursday the free, until the end of the year, of the measure of the Government of Subsidize 100% of Renfe Cercanías subscriptions and medium distance, and also the reduction of the rates ofl Metropolitan transport, 30%, plus an extra bonus of 20% provided by the Autoritat del Transport Metropolità (ATM), the entity in charge of setting rates in Catalonia, in some of the tickets used by the most loyal travellers, the T-usual and the T-jove.
recover ticket
Some measures that Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) foresees will mean an increase in travelers and wait “help retrieve the part of the passage that has not yet been retrieved at some points and, above all, in some public transport time slots after the pandemic & rdquor ;, in the opinion of the president of TMB and Councilor for Mobility Laia Bonet. According to the figures provided by the entity, in 2021 there were 424.8 million trips on all its metro and bus lines, while in 2019 the total was 627.34 million, which represents 202.54 million more trips, therefore the drop in 2021 compared to pre-pandemic dates was 32.29%. According to Bonet, currently public transport “continues to recover users & rdquor; and the figures at the suburban level “are already very similar to those of 2019”, the same does not happen with the number of bus passengers, who have more problems reaching the numbers from before the pandemic.
possible queues
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Unlike the Renfe titles, which have been on sale for days, those that depend on TMB cannot be purchased until this Thursday, the day the measure comes into operation, “because the AMT decided so,” explains Bonet, so that from the entity they do not rule out the possibility of creating queues at the points of sale – “we will be very attentive, especially during the first hours & rdquor; -, but the councilor recalls that the titles can also be purchased electronically. The fact that the new measure on the reduction of prices is launched this Thursday, September 1, four days before the start of the school year, next Monday, can “help space out the purchase of tickets & rdquor ;.
Prices
The 50% reduction, applied to the most recurrent integrated tickets, affects the T-usual and T-jove monthly subscriptions for those under 25 years of age, their single-parent and numerous versions, the ticket for unemployed people and the Berguedà and Ripollès packs , while the title for less frequent users (T-casual) will have a 30% discount. With these reduced rates, the T-usual of an area goes from 40 to 20 euros; the T-jove for one zone goes from 80 to 40 euros, and the T-casual, also for one zone, is reduced from 11.35 to 7.95 euros.