Free pass in Lisbon can be recharged at Multibanco
The recharge of the free pass to Lisbon can, as of Monday, be carried out through the Multibanco by those over 65 and young students between the ages of 13 and 23 covered, the City Council announced today.
“From October 31, municipal October 31, from October 31, the 65-year-old ticket will be free of charge, the ticket will be free of charge at Multibanco, as well as communicator for any displacements to the operators’ customer spaces”, he advanced. autarchy in attendance.
Although the pass is free, the Lisbon City Council emphasizes that “the loading is necessary, with monthly work being necessary, similar to other transport tickets”.
“In practice, if, until now, people over 65 and young people aged 13 years were obliged to carry out the loading of the Navegante pass in a customer service area, the introduction of this possibility in the SIBS network, adds more than 300 Payshop agents around 12,000 ATMs, massively expanding the charging network”, he highlights.
According to the municipality, “the availability of new charging services with Navegante signature, a partnership developed with Transportes Metropolitanos de Lisboa (TML) is part of the promotion of an increasingly efficient mobility, in ecological terms, whether in ecological terms. economic and social terms”.
For this maximum year, the measure is expected to represent an expense amounting to 6.26 million euros and, for the economic years 2023, 2024 and 2025, an amount of up to 14.9 million euros for each year.
On 21, the Lisbon Chamber, city agreement, proposed unanimously free of charge in the city, which provides for one between the municipality and the municipality of 2025 – Transportes Metropolitanos de Lisboa, valid 31 of establishment free of charge for young people aged 13 and 18 , higher education students up to the age of 23, including the exception of those enrolled in medicine and architecture courses up to the age of 24, and those over 65, where the common requirement for all is tax residency in the municipality.
From August 16th of August, it will be available to citizens aged 65 and over on July 25th of this year and days later, August 16th, open enrollment for students between 13 and 23 years old, so that we can be a beneficiary of the free passes from the month of September.
These professional course students are not on a list of establishments covered by the Directorate-General for Higher Education (DGES) and students of professional courses continue to be over 18 years old. Government.
For those over 65, public transport is free of charge on the Carris Metropolitano de Lisboa and CP – Comboios de Portugal networks, “in which the Navegante Urbano title is valid in the ‘3rd age’ mode”.
For students between 13 and 23 years old, it covers the networks of the companies Carris, Metropolitano de Lisboa, through the Navegante Municipal titles in the 4_18 and sub23 modalities, and membership is for those who have a tax domicile in the municipality of Lisbon and who have also submitted a educational establishment in the city.