The buses of the Municipal Transport Company (EMT) will be free again next week, from Monday, September 4, to Friday, the 8th, coinciding with the return of activity after the summer holidays and with the start of the school year.
The delegate for Urban Planning, the Environment and Mobility, Borja Carabante, announced this Thursday at the press conference after the first Governing Board of the political course, in which he appeared together with the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida.
Carabante recalled that, since 2021, the City Council has been offering the EMT service free of charge at times when a “significant” mobility peak is expected, such as the return to activity after the summer, in order to promote mobility sustainability and the use of public transport.
Since this initiative was launched, the free EMT has been activated fourteen times, which means 45 days of free buses, the delegate pointed out, while emphasizing that, throughout those 45 days, the EMT transported 31,126,000 people.
More than 7 million of these travelers were not regular users of the EMT, stressed the person in charge of Urbanism, Environment and Mobility.
Traffic on the M-30 in the capital has registered an increase of around 16% this week and the users of the Madrid Municipal Company (EMT) have already reached one million after the summer holidays.
Carabante has affirmed that the Consistory must finish the works that harm mobility as soon as possible, and has recalled that this Friday the Manuel Becerra tunnel and the reforms in Francisco Silvela will open.
“We have to ask the people of Madrid for patience again, the people of Madrid to return and begin to move through the streets of Madrid, taking into account that there are numerous works in the city of Madrid that are necessary to be able to have the city in good condition, but that cause damages and inconveniences to the people of Madrid”, he has transferred.
Likewise, the delegate recalled that Metro Line 1 in its southern area continues to be cut, with a free alternative EMT bus service that is transporting 60,000 passengers a day.
