The EMT buses will be free on September 1, 7 and 8

In addition to the Commuter and Metro transport discounts announced for September, on the 1st, 7th and 8th, there will be free buses from the Municipal Transport Company (EMT) to encourage the use of public transport coinciding with the restart of the school activity.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
18 August 2022 Thursday 18:31
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The EMT buses will be free on September 1, 7 and 8

In addition to the Commuter and Metro transport discounts announced for September, on the 1st, 7th and 8th, there will be free buses from the Municipal Transport Company (EMT) to encourage the use of public transport coinciding with the restart of the school activity.

The Environment and Mobility delegate, Borja Carabante, who already advanced yesterday that the free municipal buses would be applied again at the return of summer, has given the details this Thursday.

"As we promised last year, throughout this year there will be different moments of free public transport, specifically the EMT buses, on September 1, after returning from work. , and on September 7 and 8, which is when the school activity begins", explained the delegate.

The EMT buses will be free during the 24 hours of those days, not only at rush hour (from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.) during the first fortnight of September.

Carabante has added that there will be free throughout the year "at specific times of increased traffic", such as during Christmas or when Black Friday sales are celebrated in stores.

According to the delegate, "during those free days" implemented in recent months, the increase in demand has been estimated at 3%. "Therefore, there are 3% more travelers who discover the benefits of public transport." The municipal initiative seeks to convert occasional users into regular ones in order to continue promoting public transport.

The free service on September 1, 7 and 8 will not be extended to Bicimad electric bicycles, and the delegate recalled that "there were also several free days" for this service coinciding with Mobility Week (19, September 20 and 21, 2021).

"Bicimad, as a consequence of the lack of confidence (of the pandemic), has had points where it has had the records of daily users, reaching 17,000 daily uses. Now we are around 11,000 or 12,000", the delegate pointed out.

"There are more and more users, but what is going to be, of course, the Bicimad revolution is the renewal of each and every one of the bicycles. We are going to renew all the bicycles, we are going to go from 2,500 to 7,500, and from 250 bases to 650 bases, with a new bicycle model”, highlighted Carabante.