At least six autonomous governments -Basque Country, La Rioja, Murcia, Navarra, Valencian Community and Castilla y León- have announced that will take advantage of the regional transport discount and will maintain the 50% discount, while there are four regional Executives –Andalusia, Aragon, Extremadura and Cantabria– who are evaluating this measure. for his partthe Community of Madrid will maintain the 50% discount as of January 1, and will extend it to 60% as of February.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced this Tuesday that the anti-crisis decree approved by the Council of Ministers included an extension of the 30% discount for regional transport for the first half of 2023, but that it will pay only to the communities that agree to extend the bonus to 50% of the price.
Given this, The six aforementioned regional executives have already guaranteed that they will subsidize 20% of the price of regional transport from their coffers, Therefore, the citizens of these six regions will be able to count on a 50% discount during the first six months of the year.
But the Government of the Community of Madrid has gone further, and its president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has announced this morning that will increase this bonus to 60% from February. Of course, multi-trip tickets will continue to have a 30% decrease compared to their original amount.
anti-crisis decree
This measure will mean a different investment by the autonomous governments, which they have to assume 20% of the bonus if they want to take advantage of this measure included in the latest anti-crisis decree approved by the Executive of Pedro Sánchez.
In this context, The Basque Government will assume 10% of the public transport discountwhich he estimates will involve an investment of 12 million euros until June, while the rest of the operators will have to cover the remaining 10% with their own funds.
In the case of Navarrathe final discount of 50% in the price of interurban transport vouchers will mean a cost of about 300,000 euros for the Provincial Executive.
For its part, the Generalitat Valenciana has explained that it will begin to apply throughout the month of January la 50 percent reduction in season tickets and multi-trip tickets for regional transporta measure that will make it possible to purchase vouchers for ten trips from four euros in Valencia, Alicante and Castellón.
Reprogramming in the 2023 budgets
In addition to the Community of Madrid, there are two other regions presided over by ‘popular’ leaders, Castilla y León and Murcia, who have advanced that they will implement this measure in their territories.
Another of the communities of the PP, Andalusia, is assessing whether to finally decide to apply this discount because, according to the Junta, accompanying the extension of the 30% discount to regional transport would imply the “reprogramming” of its Budget for 2023, approved last week.
But it is not the only region that is studying whether to implement this measure, since it also The communities chaired by two socialist leaders, Aragón and Extremadura, have advanced that they are evaluating whether to apply the discount, like Cantabria, which is studying “with the best of intentions” this decree.
At another point they are Canary Islands y balearessince the decree approved yesterday by the Council of Ministers includes the particularities that will be applied in the island territories, where collective land public transport will be free for regular travelers next year.