Ayuso announces that the Community of Madrid will reduce the price of transport passes by 50% from September

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The president of the

, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, announced this Monday that the regional government will reduce the price of monthly transport passes by 50% from September 1 to December 31 of this year.

This was explained to the media in the

, after the delivery of the

, where he underlined that this reduction will be carried out in all transport in the region, that is, in the

, buses and

.

"Water rates in the

, as well as transport rates, have been frozen for a decade and public transport is heavily subsidized since 70% is borne by the regional administration and not by travellers, but we want to continue delving into these reinforcements ", has signed the president.

For this reason, he has defended, the

will add to this rate freeze a 50% reduction in the price of monthly transport passes from September 1 to December 31.

will be approved this week

The regional Executive will present this reduction to the

to approve it this week and thus extend the 30% reduction already proposed by the central Executive by another 20%, so that it will be reduced by up to 50% and will do so, has said the regional president, in all means of transport.

stressed that this measure "demonstrates the consensus and dialogue that her government is seeking."

With this, from September 1 to December 31 of this year, the price of monthly passes for public transport in the

will be reduced by 50%, also taking into account that 70% of the total cost of these services is subsidized by the regional government.

It will be added to the 30% discount already approved

The

of the Community of Madrid already approved on Friday the transfer of the 30% discount measure financed by the central government to regional rates, which will now be reduced by another 20% once approved the additional reduction proposed by the Government of

.

With the 30% reduction already approved, the monthly transport subscription of the

of the Community of Madrid went on to cost 38.2 euros in September.

Ordinary subscriptions will range from 38.2 euros in

to 92.20 euros in

.

The youth subscription will go from 20 to 14 euros and that of the elderly will stand at 2.3 euros.

Precisely, the president of the

(

),

, disfigured the

for turning a deaf ear to extending the reduction of public transport passes subsidized to 30% by the central government, one of the measures contemplated by the central Executive to deal with the consequences of the war in Ukraine and the increase in fuel prices, which is added, in addition to the free

and

services for the last three months of 2022.

As reported in an interview with Europa Press, the FMM was summoned to the Price Commission of the Consumer Council of the

in which this reduction was discussed.

There they carried, at the request of the

, that these transport passes be discounted at 100% until the end of the year or, at least, that it be raised to 50% with the contribution of the central Executive.

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