Today, at an extraordinary meeting of its Board of Directors, the Metropolitan Transport Authority (ATM) has agreed to reduce the price of its main integrated public transport passes. The new prices will be applied to travel pass purchases made between 1 September and 31 December 2022.

Royal Decree-Law 11/2022, of 25 June, along with the Ministerial Order of 15 July, both of which are promoted by the Spanish government, envisage the application of a 30% price reduction on urban and interurban transport for time-based and multiple-journey travel passes. As a result, the member administrations of the ATM consortium (the Government of Catalonia, the Barcelona City Council and the AMB) have decided to implement this measure and to apply a further 20% reduction in the price of the most frequently-used integrated travel passes: the monthly passes (T-usual) and the quarterly passes for young people under age 25 (T-jove); the monthly and quarterly travel passes for single-parent and large families; and the travel pass for unemployed people. Regarding the travel passes for less frequent users (the T-casual), the additional discount will not be applied, although such passes will be sold at a 30% discount.

The discount in fares will be applied to both the magnetic strip travel passes and to those with T-mobilitat technology 

Travel passes with no changes in price

There will be no price changes in the following integrated travel passes: T-familiar, T-grup and T-dia.

Travel passes managed by the administrations and specific transport operators

To enable the two fares to coexist in the same financial year, the expiry date of the travel passes from 2022 will have to be modified. Accordingly, it was agreed that all passes purchased in 2022 will only be valid until 15 January 2023, with the exception of the T-16 and the T-verda passes, which have their own expiry dates.

Those who have purchased travel passes during the year 2022 and have not begun to use them (regardless of their price) may exchange the unused passes for travel passes of the same type for use during the year 2023. They will have until 31 March 2023 to do so. At that time, any differences in price will have to be paid. If there is no difference between the purchase price of the pass and the new price or if there is a negative difference, the passes can be exchanged at the customer service centres of the main transport operators and will involve no monetary transaction or compensation whatsoever.

Points of sale

Please remember that integrated public transport passes must be purchased through the official channels and points of sale.

This reduction in fares has been implemented in compliance with RDL 11/2022 of 25 June and is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda and the member administrations of the ATM consortium: the Government of Catalonia, the Barcelona City Council and the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB).

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