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Sustainable Mobility Law Boosts Public Transport in the Metropolitan Area

The new regulation, published in the BOE in December 2025, recognizes mobility as a fundamental right and aims to reduce transport emissions.

Generic image of a modern electric train or tram moving through a city, with contemporary architecture in the background.
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Generic image of a modern electric train or tram moving through a city, with contemporary architecture in the background.

Law 9/2025 on Sustainable Mobility, published in the BOE on December 4, 2025, recognizes mobility as a fundamental right and places sustainable transport at the center of climate and social cohesion policies.

This regulation, approved by the Council of Ministers and the Cortes Generales as a condition for receiving Next Generation funds from the EU, seeks to address the fact that 27% of greenhouse gas emissions in Spain come from transport, exceeding the European average by five points. The law is based on three key pillars for its implementation.
The first pillar establishes mobility as a social right, on par with healthcare or education. Public administrations, including the State Administration, Autonomous Communities, and Local Corporations, must coordinate to facilitate citizens' daily commutes. The goal is to offer collective, non-polluting, effective, and efficient transport alternatives that reduce the use of private vehicles, both in urban and peri-urban/metropolitan areas. Decarbonized and collective mobility solutions are proposed, such as electric buses, efficient commuter railways, and a robust metro and tram network, like Metrovalencia.
A second pillar is the creation of a digital and innovative system, called the Integrated Mobility Data Space (EDIM). This system will allow infrastructure managers to share data to plan new services adapted to the current and future needs of citizens. Given the growing population in metropolitan municipalities such as Torrent, Mislata, Quart de Poblet, Manises, Paterna, or Moncada, an urgent Metropolitan Mobility Plan is needed to provide fast, frequent, and economically dissuasive collective transport from private vehicle use, thereby avoiding traffic chaos and congestion.
Finally, the third pillar of the law prioritizes and increases investment in mobility, including financial tools that incentivize private sector collaboration. This collaboration would allow for advances in the execution and subsequent conservation and modernization of infrastructures, through concessionary systems with usage-based pricing. This measure is considered crucial given the severe economic situation in the Valencian Community, with a debt of 63.934 million euros in 2025 and a deficit of 2.411 million euros, according to data from AIRef and the Bank of Spain.
The plan presented by the minister on October 30, 2025, projected an investment of 840 million euros in the Metrovalencia metro-tram network during the 2026-2030 five-year period. Of this amount, 250 million would be allocated to modernizing infrastructures, 240 million to expanding the network, 185 million to new rolling stock, 90 million to stations and accessibility, and 50 million to finalize DANA works. However, to address expansions such as the Bailén-Alameda tunnel, the new Torrent Station, or the tram extension to Universidad La Florida (Albal), and to serve towns like Alfafar, Benetússer, Massanassa, Catarroja, Albal, and the industrial estates of Paiporta and Picanya, FGV's five-year budgets would need to double, reaching at least 1.500 million euros. This investment requires an urgent Railway/Tram Mobility Plan and extra-budgetary public-private-concessional financing, especially as Spain still has 27.000 million euros from Next Generation EU funds to allocate.

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