Puente declares that the one transport go can be utilized from January 19 | Economy | EUROtoday

The Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, introduced this Tuesday that the one transport go offered yesterday by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to journey all through the nation on suburban, medium distance and state community buses for 60 euros per thirty days, and 30 within the case of these underneath 26 years of age, will likely be out there from subsequent January 19.

This was confirmed by Puente throughout an interview on the Spanish Television program La Hora de La 1, who additionally confused that this new go will coexist with the transport tickets which can be presently in pressure, such because the Cercanías ticket. Therefore, the brand new ticket isn’t meant to switch the present ones, however fairly the other, since it is going to be an “additional” product.

As Puente has identified, the Government’s vocation is for the totally different administrations answerable for transport, similar to Autonomous Communities or metropolis councils, to be built-in into this challenge, unifying or integrating city passes into this new modality, to create a single ticket that can be utilized to journey all through the nation. Something that already occurs, for instance, in Germany, with the Deutschlandticket (which incorporates all public transport in all cities for 63 euros, except excessive pace).

To obtain this, Puente has indicated that an settlement will likely be established with the administrations which can be eager about becoming a member of the challenge, even if it has already been launched with out this having occurred. “We would have liked them to join from the beginning, but it could not be for various reasons. But I am convinced that they will integrate,” he lamented.

This new ticket and that the reductions on public transport will stay in pressure throughout the 12 months 2026 had been introduced this Monday by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, throughout the look to current the political steadiness of the 12 months. Although it was not the primary time that the launch of the one subscription was talked about, because it was already introduced at first of the 12 months to come back into pressure in 2026, it was, nonetheless, lacking to set a definitive value and date. “It is a very strong commitment to sustainable mobility and also to the middle and working class,” mentioned Sánchez.

Two million beneficiaries

For the second, and within the absence of different public administrations becoming a member of in, the one go will solely embody Renfe trains that aren’t excessive pace and long-distance buses, as all of them are the duty of the State. “We are talking about two million people who will find it less difficult each month to get to their job, their home and also their daily lives,” Sánchez celebrated.

Regarding the extension of the present reductions all through 2026, the president didn’t give particulars on this regard. Currently, month-to-month city and interurban transport passes and 10-trip vouchers have a 40% low cost (20% financed by the State and the opposite 20% by the communities or city councils).

The present reductions additionally enable reductions of 40% (70% for younger individuals) on medium-distance trains and 50% on Avant trains, in addition to 50% on state buses (70% for younger individuals).