The Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid has extended the possibility of the process to renew the Public Transport Card corresponding to the Young Passes areas B1, B2 and B3 to 70 municipal seats of 44 different localities. This initiative was made possible thanks to the collaboration of city councils involved with the regional body, which has been responsible for training the municipal staff and provide brochures to meet the requests of the new support the contactless transport card.

Since last October, the Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid opened the deadline for those young people with Travel Pass areas B1, B2 and B3 could apply for renewal of the Public Transport Card, said regional entity has received about 20,000 Internet requests.

Now, in addition to renew the subscription young magnetic B areas by the new contactless card through www.tarjetatransportepublico.es website, users can go to different municipal centers of their Consistories, a list can also be accessed on the official website of the Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid www.crtm.es.

In both cases, the processing will be free until 30 November and applicants will receive their new Public Transport Card once is operational in all modes of transport for fare zone. Those users who have completed the online petition will receive their new Public Transport Card by postal mail.

With this initiative, the Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid provides traditional travel pass change to the new card, which will be issued over 1.5 million cards in areas B, C and seniors in the coming months.

So far have already been issued over 750,000 Public Transport Cards Zone A and is expected that the expansion to areas B Youth Pass the number to increase by more than 125,000 units.

New support has characteristics highly valued by its users, including the rapid validation, comfort, its small size, its period of validity of 30 calendar days and the ability to recover the balance in case of loss. Similarly, the overall implementation of this contactless technology will save more than 150,000 kg of paper in the next five years and 30% in the costs of operation and maintenance of the winches.

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