Bizkaibus will maintain a 20% discount on temporary passes after 2024

The deputy general of Bizkaia, Elixabete Etxanobe, has emphasized that the transport service Bizkaibus offers a 20% discount in the price of temporary passes, such as Bidai tickets, when the 50% bonus applicable to all public transport ends in 2024.

Etxanobe appeared at the full control session that the General Assemblies of Bizkaia held this Wednesday in Gernika to respond to a question from EH Bildu, who asked him why the Bizkaia Transport Consortium (CTB) decided on December 26 to extend the 20% discounts only for 2024 to apply on the price of temporary subscriptions and the wallet card “omitted” from the bonuses barikused by 80% of users.

The member of Raul Méndez has accused the Provincial Council of a “spectacle” and created “chaos”a “gibberish” that has caused “confusion” among citizens on this issue of discounts, as the CTB agreed to extend the bonus to the Barik card once the central government decided to maintain the blanket discount for this year.

Etxanobe replied that they are mixing on this issue two ‘different’ agreements: the Transport Consortium approved 20% discount on temporary passes and the extension of 50% on bonuses for all tickets in 2024.

She explained that when the CTB, of which she chairs, accepted the December 26 agreement, the central government had not yet made it clear whether it would extend the 50% bonuses until 2024, which it did on December 28, after which it announced the beginning of In January it was agreed in Bizkaia to extend the discounts accordingly.