Free

Renfe transport passes

can be requested from today to start using them from next week, on September 1.

This is one of the Government's measures to help families in this context of runaway inflation and rising energy prices.

The Government calculates that these bonuses (which will allow regular users to travel for free on Cercanías, Rodalies and medium distance)

will mean a saving per family of 1,000 euros between September and December

, which is when this free period ends in principle, according to yesterday the Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchez, during her speech at the press conference after the Council of Ministers, the first to be held after the holidays.

Who can request them?

The Government approved these discounts last Monday within a package of measures to alleviate the impact of the rise in energy prices.

These free subscriptions are aimed at people who regularly use public transport, such as

workers or students

.

As explained by the Minister of Transport,

families will save in these four months between 600 euros

(in the case of Madrid or 750 euros in Barcelona), up to 1,000 euros in other large cities such as Valencia or Seville.

Savings have been calculated based on a family made up of a couple and two student children who travel in the metropolitan area of ​​the main Spanish cities.

How to apply

On August 8, Renfe opened a

registry on its website

so that users of Cercanías, Media Distancia and Avant could request their multi-trip tickets, which they will be able to have as of today.

Some 300,000 people have already registered on the Renfe website.

It can be used from September 1 and will be valid until December 31.

At the time of its acquisition, from today,

the user will have to pay a deposit

of between 10 and 20 euros (10 in the case of Cercanías and Rodalies and 20 in the case of Media Distancia), which will be returned at the end of the period. validity of the subscription as long as they have made 16 trips.

The subscriptions will be for

Cercanías, Media Distancia and Avant

(in medium-distance trains that run on high-speed rail), and in the latter case they will not be free, but will have a 50% discount.

Routes

In addition to those of Cercanías and Rodalies, it will be applied in the corridors Barcelona Sans-Girona-Cerbere, Coruña-Santiago-Vigo, Seville-Cádiz, Seville-Córdoba-Jaén, Valencia-Vinaroz-Tortosa, Valencia-Alicante-Murcia, Madrid- Valladolid-Vitoria, Salamanca-Madrid and Madrid-Jaén.

It does not apply to medium-distance trains that run on high-speed rail.

In the case of the Avant, which will have a 50% discount, it will be on

these lines:

Madrid-Palencia, Madrid-Zamora, León-Valladolid, Burgos-Madrid, León-Palencia, Burgos-Valladolid, Ourense-Zamora, Palencia- Valladolid, Huesca-Zaragoza, León-Segovia, Segovia-Zamora, Palencia-Segovia and Medina del Campo-Zamora.

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