This Wednesday, February 1, 2023, comes into force free state bus routes for frequent travelers who contribute a minimum deposit of 20 euroswhich will be returned if a minimum of 12 trips are made during the next three months.
The operation will be similar to the measure applied in Renfe Cercanías and Media Distancia trains since September of last year, after the approval by the Government of the financing for companies to offer these new free travel titles. Galicia has five routesaccording to the Ministry of Transport:
- Vigo-Irun-Barcelona
- Madrid-Salamanca-Vigo with daughters [es posible aumentar el tráfico en cualquier punto de la línea distinto de sus extremos]
- Santiago de Compostela-Gijón-Irún-Barcelona
- Ferrol-Algeciras
- Irun-Tui with hijuelas
bus travelers they must contact the transport company or the usual sales channel to obtain a unique code and purchase the multi-trip ticket for the recurring route. Next, they must pay an amount as a deposit for this title, which will be reimbursed if the established recurrence is reached. Specific, 20 euros for bills up to 5 euros, 35 euros for those between 5 and 13 euros, 50 euros for those between 13 and 25 euros and 65 euros for those over 25 euros.
These titles will be valid for four months, except for the first one, which will be three months, since it begins in February and will expire in April, a period during which 12 trips or more will have to be made. In the periods from May to August and from September to December you will have to travel more than 16 times on the specific route for which the ticket was purchased, valid only for one person.
Return
In the event that travelers have obtained the multi-trip ticket with a credit card, the return will be made within a maximum period of one month and automatically by the concessionaire company, without prior request by the user, to the credit card with which the title was obtained, once the quarter or four-month period has ended.
For titles obtained with payment in cash, the refund of the amount advanced as a deposit must be requested by the traveler at the ticket offices, customer service offices or any other after-sales service authorized for this purpose by the concessionary company, within a period not exceeding two months from the end of the validity period of the multi-trip ticket.
The Government will allocate 27.3 million euros during the first half of the year to the financing of this gratuity in the transport of passengers by bus on state lines. They will be complemented with 50% discounts on regional transport, which will cost 380 million euros to the Stateand free Renfe, with others close to 700 million euros.
Renfe targets 15,000 Galician users of the free subscription
The Xunta extends its discounts for a month
The Xunta extended during the month of February discounts of 50% in the bus lines that are the responsibility of the regional administration, as well as in the maritime transport of the Vigo estuary and the railway in Ferrol.
The Official Gazette of Galicia (DOG) published yesterday the resolution of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Mobility through which the “an additional and temporary extension” of these discounts.
The resolution also indicates that this aid system requires a subsequent ministerial order through which the procedure will be opened for the communities to adhere to it, “order that as of January 18 has not yet been published.”
However, the text of the DOG continues, “at the have no proof of the amount that will finally be transferred to the autonomous community, the extension of the temporary period of application of the additional bonus must be carried out, a priori, charged to the community’s own funds; reasons that motivate to make a limited temporary extension at this time to the month of February 2023 ”.
