The President of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, has announced that the 50% reduction in public transport prices of the Generalitat will be applied as of February 1, and will be in force during the first half of 2023.
This has been advanced during the commissioning of the renewed section of line 9 of the TRAM that connects Gata de Gorgos and Dénia, which was also attended by the Minister of Territorial Policy, Public Works and Mobility, Rebeca Torró.
The measure will coexist with free public transport for those under 30 years of age and will apply to the entire Metrovalencia network, TRAM d'Alacant, TRAM de Castelló, MetroBus and various concessions. The total cost of the initiative will be co-financed by the central government, which will assume 30%, and the Generalitat will be responsible for 20% of the reduction.
During the event, the President highlighted the investment efforts of the Generalitat to offer "increasingly accessible" public transport and help citizens face the effects of inflation, and assured that, with the Bonus 10 of the TRAM, the inaugural trip of the L9 made this Monday between Teulada and Denia will cost 40 cents.
During his speech, the president also advanced that the tender notice for the informative study of the new TRAM between Dénia and Gandia will be published in the coming weeks. In this regard, Puig has insisted that the objective of the Consell is to promote urban and metropolitan transport to "stitch" the regions and offer citizens "quality, affordable, more efficient public transport that improves connectivity between people and our towns”.
For her part, the Regional Minister for Territorial Policy, Rebeca Torró, has shown the Generalitat's "firm commitment" to a collective and "more sustainable" public transport model, because "only in this way will we ensure that users can, in the most agile as possible, move in a sustainable way and leave the car at home", as well as "improve the territorial structure and fight against climate change".
The councilor recalled that in recent years the Consell has reduced the price of public transport, has increased the number of lines, as well as increasing investment and implementing "new modes of transport". It is about this way of ensuring that cities and metropolitan areas "manage to structure an integrated, efficient transport and mobility system, based on a rational use of urban space", which will also have an impact on having a "more competitive, more humane, more habitable”, he concluded.
Investments in L9
The recovery of line 9 of the TRAM d'Alacant that runs between Dénia and Benidorm has involved an investment of 150 million euros in order to modernize the route and restore communication between the eight municipalities of the Marina Alta and the Marina Baixa united through the FGV transport network.
Specifically, the last section of the L9 put into service this Monday, has made it possible to renew the route between Gata de Gorgos and Dénia and to tramize the line throughout the municipality of Dénia. The project has made it possible to integrate the tracks urbanistically, transform the level crossings into crossings with traffic lights and eliminate the walls that closed the tracks, thus ending the division that the trenet that cut Dénia on its south side meant. In addition, the TRAM workshops have been conditioned in the Dénia station itself, essential for the maintenance of the new dual trains.
Good news is to start with the Denia Gandía section, so necessary to reduce road trips and thus eliminate much of the pollution.