Communists believe that there should be a single Navegante pass for the entire Lisbon Metropolitan Area (AML) with a monthly cost of €30.
End the distinction between the Municipal Navegante and the Metropolitan Navegante and combine these two passes into one, which costs €30/month and allows you to travel throughout the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (AML). - is the PCP's proposal that was presented this week at a public meeting of the city council.
Presented in the form of a motion, the proposed by the communist councillors João Ferreira and Ana Jara, aims to "a new step in the simplification of ticketing, creating a single pass for the whole of AML, with the cost of the current municipal passes, absorbing these". In practice, instead of there being a Municipal Navegante pass in each AML municipality (at €30/month) and a Metropolitan Navegante pass that allows you to travel throughout the AML (for €40/month), there would be a single €30/month Navegante pass that would have a metropolitan scope.
But for this to happen, the idea would have to be proposed to the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, which administers the Navegante passes through its Transportes Metropolitanos de Lisboa (TML). The PCP's motion suggesting the opening of this discussion was abstained by the PS and approved with the favorable votes of the other political forces represented on the Lisbon City Council executive, including the PSD and CDS. In the same motion, the Communists also advocate "the extension of free admission throughout the AML up to the age of 18, also including those who already have access to the Under-23"as well as "the establishment of a free pass for citizens over 65"proposals that Moedas has shown support for in the past.
The PCP councillors believe that this gratuity should be guaranteed by the government through PART, the program that has allowed public transport fares to be reduced nationwide since 2019, including in AML. For João Ferreira and Ana Jara, there should also be "immediate measures are taken to guarantee an increase in the supply and reliability of public transport" and that the "public investment plan leading to the necessary increase in supply, particularly in its heavier aspects, including in terms of the purchase of boats and trains, the modernization of the Oeste railway infrastructure and the Cascais Line and the extension of the Lisbon Metro and the Metro Sul do Tejo.“and asked the Lisbon City Council to be more involved and to put pressure on the government to do so.
