The deadline has opened for local entities to apply for grants to finance the discounts throughout the year 2025. Applications can be submitted until 30 April.
The Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility has announced a 10-million-euro line of aid to reduce the price of recurrent season tickets for public bicycle lending services by at least 50% throughout 2025 and thus encourage the use of shared bicycles for daily journeys.
These subsidies form part of the Ministry’s programme of subsidies to encourage the use of public transport, which for the first time includes funds to encourage bicycle use, promoting active, sustainable and healthy mobility in cities.
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The subsidies are aimed at local and supra-municipal entities that have public bicycle lending services. Applications must be submitted through the Ministry’s electronic headquarters until 30 April 2025, when the deadline is 30 April 2025.
This is a measure in which the municipalities must be involved. The funds mobilised are intended to cover a 30% reduction in the price of season tickets or flat fares that allow unlimited travel by bicycle for a certain period for local or supra-municipal bodies that undertake to raise the reductions to at least 50%. In other words, they will have to co-finance a reduction of at least 20% from their budgets.
Requirements
Potential beneficiaries of these subsidies, provided for in Royal Decree-Law 1/2025, will have to apply for them at the electronic headquarters of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility before 30 April 2025.
The eligibility requirements are as follows:
To have a fare system in place for recurring tickets for public bicycle lending services.
In the case of local entities that are legally obliged to have a Low Emission Zone (LEZ), they must already have a LEZ effectively implemented in their territory or commit to it during 2025.
To consider the implementation of the LEZ effective, it will be necessary to have a municipal regulation in force and applicable where the legal delimitation of the LEZ and its regulation are established; as well as measures of prohibitions or restrictions of access, circulation and parking of vehicles, according to the polluting potential of the vehicles.
In addition, an access control, monitoring and tracking system and an active sanctioning system must be in place, excluding any warning system that may have been previously envisaged.
Those local entities that submit their application within 30 calendar days of the publication of the call for applications for this aid will be eligible for an advance payment equivalent to 30% of the total income received from the sale of recurring securities for the financial year 2024.
As for payment of the aid, beneficiaries will present during the months of January and February 2026 the settlements relating to the securities and subscriptions issued in the period from 1 January to 31 December 2025. Once this documentation has been received, the Directorate General for Mobility Strategies will proceed to process the payment of the aid.