At the request of the Department of Economic Development and Infrastructure of the Basque Government, the CTB transfers the use of BARIK NFC App. By means of this telephone application, you will be able to make reloads and check the movements of BAT cards. With this agreement, the Bizkaia and Araba provinces will enjoy a common system serving 75% of users of public transport, thus taking another step in the successive implementation of interoperability between the three territories

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The 2017 Report on Public Transport in Bizkaia [Informe del Transporte Público de Bizkaia] drawn up by CTB [Consorcio de Transportes de Bizkaia – the Bizkaia Transport Consortium] reveals that 109.9 million journeys were made by rail (up 3.8% on 2016) and 54.2 million by bus (up 0.4%).

This increase can be attributed largely to the entry into service of Line 3 of the Metro system. This was undoubtedly one of the landmark events of the year and indeed of public transport in Bizkaia in recent times.

En agosto las Oficinas de Atención  del Trasporte Público  de Bizkaia siguen abiertas para  atender y resolver  todas las consultas acerca de cualquier transporte público de Bizkaia, incluidas gestiones de la tarjeta Barik   con los siguientes horarios:
CTB-San Mamés /   Bilbao: Estación Intermodal de San Mamés  
      Lunes a viernes laborable de 8.30 a 7.30 (Cerrado viernes Aste Nagusia)
Metro Bilbao/Euskotren   Bilbao: Estación de ZazpiKaleak -Casco Viejo (Acceso S. Nikolas)
      Lunes a viernes laborable  8:00 - 15:00 (Cerrado viernes Aste Nagusia)
Renfe Bilbao: Plaza Circular nº 2 (Estación de Abando)
      Lunes a viernes laborable   8:00 - 14:00  (Cerrado viernes Aste Nagusia)
Bilbobus Bilbao: C/ Licenciado Poza (esquina Elcano) nº6
      Lunes a viernes laborable  8:00 - 15:00 (Cerrado viernes Aste Nagusia)   Sábados de 9:00 a 14:00
Bizkaibus Portugalete Oficina de Atención Ciudadana. San Roke plaza  
      Lunes a viernes laborable  : 7:30 -  15:00  (Cerrado viernes Aste Nagusia)

Sodupe Oficinas municipales. Travesía Gallarraga, 20        
      Lunes a viernes laborable  :     7:30 - 15:00  
Euskotren
  Durango: Geltoki Kalea
       Lunes a viernes laborable 8:00 - 15:00
  Gernika   Plaza Estación, s/n bajo.
       Lunes a viernes laborable 8:00 - 15:00

Asimismo , también les atenderemos   en el teléfono 94.685.5000 de atención del Transporte Público de Bizkaia  en el horario de : Lunes a viernes laborable de 8 a 20 h y sábados laborable de 9 a 15 h

Bizkaia and the Catalan public entity working together will help to get the “T-mobilitat” project underway, consisting of the implementation of a new transport management, fare and technological system throughout the territory.

Carme Fábregas, Head of the ATM Innovation and Systems Division: “It is an innovation welcomed not only by Barcelona but also other cities around the world of the ilk of Dubai, which makes Bizkaia a world leader”.

The patent recognised by the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (OEPM) last year endorses the CTB as a trail-blazer in R&D&i, an innovator and ground-breaker resulting in a more cohesive Bizkaia with increasingly better links thanks to its public transport system.

The “Barik NFC” application has already been used for 400,000 top-ups. There were 171,442 in 2017 and 23,799 in June. A total of 108,230 people have registered with the app since it was introduced. There are currently over 1,650,000 active Bariks

La Red de Oficinas del Tansporte Público de Bizkaia se amplía con una nueva en Gernika que ha abierto sus puertas en la estación de Euskotren de la localidad bizkaina. La directora de Transportes del Gobierno Vasco, Janire Bijueska, y el Director Gerente del Consorcio de Transportes de Bizkaia (CTB), Gorka Ugalde, acompañados por el Director General de Euskotren, Imanol Leza, han presentado los servicios que se prestarán a la ciudadanía a través de esta nueva oficina ubicada en la estación de Euskotren de Gernika (Plaza Estación, s/n bajo).

La oficina de Gernika se suma a la red de Oficinas del Transporte Público impulsada por el CTB. En ella se podrán tramitar aspectos relacionados con la tarjeta Barik y gestiones propias del servicio de Euskotren. Junto con la de Durango, abierta al público hace aproximadamente un año, se acerca el servicio a las comarcas de Busturialdea y Durangaldea.

El horario de apertura al público es de 08.00 a 20.00 horas, de lunes a viernes laborables, excepto verano y puentes entre festivos. Durante el verano, el horario será especial en los meses de julio y agosto y puentes entre festivos, de 08.00 a 15.00 horas, de lunes a viernes laborables.

On 29 June, the Euskotren Public Transport Customer Service Office at Atxuri Station will be closed and a new office will be opened in Gernika, at the Euskotren station on 5 July.

The address of the new office in Gernika is: Plaza Estación, s/n bajo. And its opening hours are as follows:
Monday to Friday (not Bank Holidays): 8.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m.
Monday to Friday (not Bank Holidays) in July and August: 8.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m.

The CTB General Manager, Gorka Ugalde, presented the prizes at the CTB Office at San Mamés station and thanked the participants. Karen Amaia Bilbao won the “Public Transport” category for her “Circula en verde" photograph.

Due to the Machine-tool Biennial, the park & ride facility at the BEC will not be operational in the week of 28 May – 1 June. Please excuse any inconvenience.

In 2016, CTB [Bizkaia Transport Consortium] launched a call to tender to supply and install economizer equipment for a set of Bilbao Metropolitan Railway (FMB) escalators. The project aimed to fit systems to the escalators that would lead to significant savings in electricity and whose economic and technical feasibility had been previously demonstrated in a prototype.

ThyssenKrupp Elevadores, as the successful bidder, executed the contract in 2017.

The cost of the supply was €165,041.14 (including VAT) and the implementation period was 6 months. This project received funding from the Institute for Diversification and Energy Saving (IDAE), an entity under the Spanish Ministry of Energy, Tourism and the Digital Agenda, as part of the grant programme for energy efficiency measures in the railway sector, a programme that in turn is part of the Sustainable Growth Operational Programme 2014-2020, financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).