THE Community of Madrid charges against the subscription to public transport that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced this Monday and leaves his participation in the measure pending because he considers that with it the Executive “invades” the regional powers and “ … “This generates uncertainty due to the absolute lack of technical and financial planning.” “The central government is once again demonstrating its constant improvisation in essential areas such as public transport,” ministry sources said. Ministry of Housing, Transport and Infrastructure of the Community of Madrid at ABC.
From the same ministry they assure that so far “the most fundamental thing” has not happened, which for them is that the government sits down with the Madrid Regional Transport Consortium (CRTM) and with the Community of Madrid to “analyze the viability” of the new subscription. For the Executive of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, in addition, the central government’s proposal “could mean an increase in prices in Madrid” and they justify it thus because currently a young person in Madrid can travel throughout the region and reach Castile-La Mancha for 20 euros for the package agreed by the CRTM. “While the government of Pedro Sánchez announces a youth rate of 30 euros, or 10 euros more per month,” they add.
The same sources of Ministry of Housing, Transport and Infrastructure of Madrid They also point out that Sánchez is selling as a “star measure” a subscription 50% more expensive “than what our young people already benefit from”. “In Madrid, we do not need the State to come and increase the price of transport, but to invest in the Cercanías, which are within its competence and which fail daily,” they said, before also emphasizing that it has not yet been explained how the different regional and local systems will be integrated, what technological requirements will be required (validators, compatibilities) “nor who will assume the costs of adaptation”. “The bear skin is sold before being hunted and the problem is transferred to the autonomous communities. Central government is once again acting by turning its back on those of us who manage the real transportation of citizens,” they noted.
From January
Madrid is thus calling into question the public payment for transport that the government intends to approve by royal decree-law during the last Council of Ministers of the year, scheduled for next week. As Pedro Sánchez announced today, it will cost 60 euros for adults and 30 euros for young people and will come into force in the second half of January. As planned, it will start working in the services of Commuter and medium distance of Renfein addition to state bus lines, but it will not reach high-speed rail.
The Government’s idea is that regional transport consortia and municipal transport companies gradually unite so that the subscription also covers urban and intercity travel by bus, in addition to other means such as the tram and metro. At the moment they do not have the validation of Madrid, whose transport system is the most used in all of Spain.with more than 1.7 billion travelers last year.
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