The central government is going to allocate 10 million euros to finance the metropolitan transport of Valencia; 109.3 million to the metropolitan transport of Barcelona and 126.8 million to Madrid, in addition to 25 million to the transport of passengers from Canary Islands.
This is stated in the royal decree that regulates the direct granting of subsidies for the financing of regular public transport for passengers in the metropolitan areas of Madrid, Barcelona, València and the Canary Islands, which comes into force this Wednesday after its publication in the State official newsletter.
The purpose of this royal decree is to regulate the direct granting of subsidies by the State Administration, on an exceptional basis and for reasons of public interest, to finance the needs of the regular public land transport system for travelers in these areas during the year. 2020.
The beneficiaries of these subsidies, which have been awarded for years to contribute to the financial support of mobility systems and regular passenger land transport, are the Madrid Regional Transport Consortium, the Barcelona Metropolitan Transport Authority, the Transport Authority Metropolitan of Valencia and the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands.
For Ribó, a scandal
The mayor of Valencia, Joan Ribó, has denounced that the government aid to transport, published this Wednesday in the BOE, is “simply scandalous”, with amounts of more than one hundred million to cities such as Madrid and Barcelona and 10 to Valencia.
“They are the same aid as last year and the same as the previous year when Montoro was,” lamented Ribó, for whom it is “simply scandalous because it continues to do the same” as with the previous government.
The mayor has said that this distribution “is still much more serious” this year because the coronavirus pandemic “is hurting transport companies a lot” and has denounced that it seems to him of “extreme gravity”.
He has detailed that Madrid has granted aid for 127 million, which means 24.32 euros per inhabitant and Barcelona, 109, 29.54 euros per inhabitant, while the 10 million for Valencia represents 7.14 euros per inhabitant.
Gomez trusts budgets
In contrast, the deputy mayor, Sandra Gomez, has argued that this subsidy is a consequence of continuing with the General State Budgets (PGE) extended. “I will not tire of saying over and over again that it is absolutely necessary for the Government to have its own budgets,” he emphasized.
The socialist has ensured that both the Minister of Transport, the Valencian Jose Luis Ábalos, like Pedro Sánchez, they have committed to solving the deficiencies of cities like Valencia in metropolitan transport, especially at a time when “people need to trust the bus” to get around.
But to achieve this, he has called on the responsibility of the parties represented in Congress so that the Government’s PGE project can go ahead, such as that of 2019 that did not go ahead with 10% of the investments for the Valencian Community.
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