At today’s meeting, the Basque Transport Authority will discuss “promoting the habit of public transport among minors” and helping families with children, as well as the discounts that will be in force next year.
The Basque Transport Authority will today debate the extension of the free public transport for children under 12 years old. Nowadays, public transport is free for children up to 6 years old.
The Minister of Sustainable Mobility announced this. Susana Garcíawho will chair the meeting to “promote the habit of collective transportation among minors and financially help families with children.”
The higher advisory and transport coordination body in the BAC will also discuss the discounts that will apply to public transport next year during its meeting.
The counselor has already set the goal to achieve a goal unit rate system throughout the autonomous community, which, “respecting the peculiarities of each territory”, introduces a regime of progressive discounts based on use and the socio-economic characteristics of users and which particularly favors certain groups, such as young people among the 26 years, unemployed, disabled or large families “and can even be free with high usage.”
In his appearance before the parliamentary committee, García also announced that the interoperability process of the Bat, Barik and Mugi cards will culminate in 2025, so that they can all be used in any public transport, regardless of territory.
Source: EITB
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