The CTB is looking for a group of users of personalised (photo-type) or registered Barik card users to help test a mobile app over the next 4 months. The app is for Android 4.0 & higher OSs, and uses NFC technology.

Today the CTB (Bizkaia Transport Consortium) is starting a pilot scheme to enable Barik fare cards to be recharged via mobile devices. The CTB is currently seeking users to help test the system with a view to improving it to the level where it can be phased in on a large scale by the end of the year. Volunteers wishing to join this group should have a personalised (photo-type) Barik card or a registered card and a mobile phone with NFC technology and an Android 4.0 or higher OS.

Users who meet these requirements can sign up via the “PILOTO NFC” tab in the “acceso a mi barik” [“Access to my Barik Card”] section of the CTB website (ctb.eus). The CTB will then e-mail them a link where they can download the app onto their phones. This new app will enable users to top up any Barik card as many times as necessary just by selecting the ticket to be recharged and entering the details of a bank card (secure e-commerce) for payment of the relevant amount.

. The contactless card of the CTB to move around Biscay using public transport reached the figure of 118,311,765 journeys last year.
. 71.5% of the journeys using public transport in the Region were done with Barik.
. Today, there are more Barik cards than inhabitants in Biscay: 1,209,544 cards.

More information about Barik: http://www.ctb.eus/es/como-funciona-barik

The ticket created by Consorcio de Transportes de Bizkaia for travellers aged under 26 registered as resident in Bizkaia can be used on Metro Bilbao, Bizkaibus and Bilbobus services (and on the Artxanda funicular railway). A total of 603,889 journeys were made using this type of ticket in less that 6 months from its introduction on 21 July 2014 and the end of the year.
Gazte ticket holders are entitled to discounts of 50% on single fares and 20 or 30% on Creditrasn fares.
There are currently 8,200 Gazte type Barik cards enabled for use in Bizkaia.

The ctb is to change the lighting at the Areeta, Moyua and San Mames Metro stations to LED technology.
This is part of the Metro energy efficiency plan, and comes in teh wake of the replacement of the fluorescent lamps at Abando and on 24 trains from the UT 500 series.
The ctb is to invest € 150,000 in changing the lighting at the Metro Bilbao stations of Areeta, Moyua and San Mamés.
This measure is being implemented mainly to save money: the new fluorescent tubes are estimated to use 57% less electricity.

On Thursday 22 January at 10.00 a.m. the Torre Madariaga Basque Biodiversity Centre in Busturia is to host the presentation of the Activate + programme, which is aimed at saving and caring for the environment"