The Bizkaia Council plans to maintain discounts for public transport until 20 February 2026
The MEP has announced that he will begin the procedures for extending the bonus and has asked the Spanish Government to clarify its plans for next year.
The Provincial Council of Bizkaia plans to maintain the public transport bonuses currently in force until 20 February 2026, as announced by the Spanish Government, which has not yet announced the measures to be taken.
"We are not going to stand idly by," Deputy General Elixabete Etxanobe advanced at the plenary session of the General Meetings of Gerediaga, in an intervention by the PP group on the tariff policy forecasts applicable to public transport by 2026.
This group recalls that since 2022 extraordinary bonuses have been applied to public transport in Bizkaia, co-financed by the Spanish Government and the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, with users initially receiving a 50% discount on the fee.
Subsequently, state funding was reduced to 40 per cent in the second half of 2025 in Bizkaia.
Etxanobe has advanced that at the next council of the Bizkaia Transport Consortium on November 6, he will propose to extend these discounts in order to avoid delays in their approval in Congress.
In this way, the Member of the European Parliament will continue to apply the reduction of areas between 5 and 3, the abolition of the payment of internal transfers from Bizkaibus and other transport, free of charge for children under 12 years of age and the commitment to apply 20% discounts on temporary titles if the discount measures currently in force are abolished.
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