The Spanish Government will extend transport aid by 2026 and has approved a single payment of EUR 60 per month
The Spanish Council of Ministers has approved the extension of public transport aid for the whole of 2026 and the creation of a single monthly payment for EUR 60, a measure which will allow unrestricted travel on state-owned interregional buses and commuter and medium-distance trains.
The new subscription will enter into force in the second half of January and will have a budget of EUR 1.371 billion, as announced by the Minister for Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Oscar Puente.
The current bonuses are maintained: free transport for children up to 14 years of age, 40% discounts on 10 travel bonuses and 50% on monthly payments, which reach 70% for young people.
Such aid shall also apply to autonomous and local transport and shall be guaranteed State funding, even if no additional percentage is provided by the territorial administrations.
In this context, the Basque Government has announced that it will ask the Spanish Government to activate the single subscription also in the Basque Country Proximity Service.
Susana García Chueca, Counsellor for Sustainable Mobility, has stated that the Government will analyse the royal decree regulating this measure from a technical, economic and competitive point of view, but has been in favour of implementing it in order to ensure equality with the other communities.
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