Seville, (EFE).- The network of Andalusian metropolitan transport consortiums has registered the best start in its history, with 21 million passengers in the first quarter of the year and a growth of 40% compared to the same period in 2022.
This beginning of the year, as reported by the Board in a statement, comfortably improves the best historical record for Andalusian public transport, which dates back four years, when in 2019, the last year before the pandemic, 18.4 million passengers were recorded. users who used the Consorcio card between January and March.
The Minister of Public Works, Rocío Díaz, has celebrated the “unprecedented data” for the first quarter and, above all, for “a month of March in which records never seen before in the Consortium network have been reached, with more than 8 .2 million passengers in all modes of transport (bus, metro, tram and catamaran)”.
Youth Transport Card
In this regard, the counselor has delved into the need to “take advantage of this positive inertia that has arisen from the return to normality and the elimination of restrictions, to build user loyalty, especially the young population.”
In this sense, he mentioned initiatives such as the Youth Transport Card, through which 155,000 Andalusians under 30 years of age “can now travel by bus or metro at an affordable price.”
The increase in users is general in the nine Andalusian consortiums (the metropolitan areas of the eight provincial capitals plus the Campo de Gibraltar region). Highlighting the performance of Córdoba, Granada, Campo de Gibraltar and Seville, with an upward trend that allowed them to easily exceed the data prior to the pandemic.
In addition, the number of users has been growing month by month and above the record figures of 2019: in January it reached 6.2 million (+7.4%), in February it reached 6.5 million (+ 13.9%) and in March almost 8.3 million (+21.3%). EFE