The price of the single Aucorsa bus ticket exceeds the national average

take a bus Barcelona ask 2.40 euros; do it inside Madrid, 1.50 eurosand travel in the transport line Lugosolo 0.64 euros. Between the most expensive and the cheapest, the difference is 275%, while the average is 1.24 euros, according to the conclusions of the annual comparison of urban bus fares carried out by Facua-Consumers in Action.

The study analyzes the prices of 57 Spanish cities, including all provincial capitals, the two autonomous cities, the capitals of autonomous communities that are not provincial capitals and three of the cities that have a higher population than the capitals of their provinces (Gijón , Jerez de la Frontera and Vigo).

The report shows that Barcelona is by far the city with the most expensive one-way ticket in Spain. Followed by Palma de Mallorca, with 2 euros, and San Sebastián, with 1.85 euros. What position in the ranking is it in? Cordoba? The single ticket It happened ask 1.30 euroswhich is why it is slightly above average, with the same price as Santander.

Considering the price of the single journey, Las Palmas, Málaga, Pamplona, ​​​​Pontevedra, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Bilbao, Girona, Granada, Seville, Tarragona, Toledo, Valencia, Valladolid, Vigo, Vitoria and Zaragoza are also above average.

The city with the cheapest one-way ticket is Lugo, with only 0.64 euros. It is also possible to travel under the euro to Ceuta, Melilla, Mérida, Ourense and Soria.

The bus pass, more advantageous for the user

If you want to save money, the fastest solution for consumers in Córdoba is to take the bus pass. With this product the price of the trip is reduced to 0.72 euros, which represents a saving of 44.6% compared to a single ticket. The Spanish average is 0.77 euros, so Aucorsa fares would be slightly lower than the average.

In this section, the case of cacereswhich includes this category in its fares, and yet maintains the same price as when using a single journey, i.e. 1.10 euros, with the possibility, of course, of making a transfer (which the ticket does not allow). ).

The most expensive route with this card is Madrid (1.83 euros), which has kept the same price since 2019, followed by San Sebastián (1.26 euros), Barcelona (1.14 euros), Cáceres and Girona (1.10 euros) and Lleida (1 euro). None of these cities have changed the amount in this category from their 2021 and 2020 rates.

At the other extreme, the cheapest trips in this category are found in Burgos (0.47 euros), Logroño (0.53 euros), Ávila (0.55 euros), Salamanca (0.59 euros) and Santiago de Compostela . , Vitoria and Segovia (all, 0.60 euros).

monthly card

The card that allows unlimited travel in a one-month period is offered in 41 of the 57 cities included in the study, including Córdoba. Its rate varies between 15 euros in Albacete and 54.60 euros in Madrid, the same price for the last four years. The average fare is 33.85 euros, 1% more than in 2021, when the average was 33.50 euros. In Cordobathe monthly subscription costs 33 eurosas in Bilbao.

Madrid is followed as the most expensive city by Girona (47 euros), Zamora (45 euros), Oviedo (42 euros), Tarragona (41.50 euros) and Granada (41 euros). The cheapest, after Albacete, are Ciudad Real (20 euros), Soria (21.50 euros), Ávila (22 euros) and Salamanca (22.05 euros).

Government discount

As an exceptional measure to promote the use of public transport, the Spanish government is financing a 30% reduction in the price of all season tickets and multi-journey tickets in the collective land transport services of regional or local competence, sold between 1 September and 31 December 2022. Regional and local governments also have the option to extend this discount up to 50% with their own economic contributions, which takes place in Córdoba.

35 of the 57 cities analyzed in this study generally apply a 30% discount on their season tickets and multi-journeys. For their part, there are 11 that have increased this discount to 50%: Albacete, Bilbao, Burgos, Córdoba, Las Palmas, Ourense, Palma de Mallorca, Pontevedra, San Sebastián, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (monthly pass only for residents ) and Victoria.

If this discount is taken into account and the bus pass is available, the It happened becomes one of the most competitive in the countrybecause the ticket costs 0.36 euros. It is cheaper only in Albacete, Biilbao, Burgos, Lugo, Ourense and Vitoria.