Sunita Somvanshi
The executive director of Greenpeace Spain, Eva Saldaña, has delivered, this Friday, to the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, the 187,949 signatures collected so far by Greenpeace to demand the implementation of a single public transport pass. A year ago, the NGO presented this initiative, which they called T-Lleva, demonstrating not only that it is positive for the environment and for people, but also that it is economically viable and necessary.
According to Greenpeace, the current discounts have been a good pilot experience that has encouraged citizens to use public transport. “Now, faced with the foreseeable end of this temporary measure when 2024 ends, it is necessary to take a further step and take measures to make public transport affordable on a permanent and structural basis, and to eliminate tariff and administrative barriers between regions and communities, facilitating the shift to more sustainable modes,” it states. For Greenpeace, these signatures demonstrate the strong social support this initiative has, which would allow users to access all public transport modes (buses, trains, trams, metros, bikes, etc.) throughout the territory, with a flat rate, facilitating interoperability between the different systems and eliminating tariff and administrative barriers between regions and communities.
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“These almost 188,000 signatures represent the voice of hundreds of thousands of people who support the proposal for a single public transport pass, who want to be able to move in an affordable, easy and sustainable way and who are aware that another form of mobility is possible and necessary. This single pass will facilitate the shift from polluting means like cars or planes to more climate-friendly ones, and will also permanently and structurally alleviate the economy of families,” said the executive director of Greenpeace.
“Affordable, accessible, safe, connected and climate-friendly mobility helps reduce social and economic inequalities and must be a right, which must be reflected in the upcoming Sustainable Mobility Law,” they concluded from the NGO.
Greenpeace is confident that the signatures will represent “a definitive step” in the approval of this single pass that will promote the modal shift in the sector to reduce its emissions, along with a “substantial improvement” in the quality and supply of public transport, including an increase in frequencies, improvement of punctuality, travel time and reliability.
