New public transport fares will be implemented in Barcelona from January 15

The Barcelona Metropolitan Transport Authority (ATM) has announced that Barcelona's new public transport fares will not come into effect on January 1 itself. It won't even be January 15 When will the new prices be implemented, which will be 6.75% higher than the current prices? In practice, the price of a title like T-Casual for the region will rise from €11.35 to €12.15 with the increase. It will cost one ticket 2.55 euros; T-regular €21.35 and T-jove €42.70.

The ATM also decided that tickets purchased before January 14 will not even expire April 30, to allow them to make the most of it. the T Green and T16 They will keep the expiration date for each title.

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According to the ATM, the 2022 titles that are still valid and whose validity extended throughout last year will expire on December 31, 2023, and the 2023 titles will not be allowed to be exchanged for next year’s titles, whether used or not.

The ATM also decided that T-usual and T-jove will receive a 50% discount on the price, as is the case until now, after the state confirmed that it would contribute 30% of the ticket value.

Historical maximum users

ATM forecasts indicate that demand for public transportation in Barcelona will rise over the next year. In fact, between December 2022 and November 2023, a new date has been set Historical maximum usersWith 1.076 million trips, exceeding pre-pandemic data.

In the cumulative period of 2023, between January and November, the combination of 148 million operations exceeds those of the same period in 2022 and is close to 2.5% above the demand in 2019. Therefore, the expectation is that the end of the year could be a record.

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