Overview
- Barcelona’s TMB counted 700.5 million metro and bus trips in 2025, with the metro reaching a record 480 million validations and the bus network near 221 million.
- Barcelona marked October as its best month for both metro and bus, set a metro single-day peak on April 23 (Diada de Sant Jordi) with 1.88 million users, and saw the strongest relative gains outside peak hours.
- Madrid’s EMT buses carried 512 million passengers in 2025, up 8% year over year, with October the top month and June 4 the busiest day at 1.95 million riders.
- Madrid’s Bicimad logged about 13.7 million trips, roughly 39% higher than 2024, setting single-day and monthly records as the network added four stations.
- EMT detailed operational measures including 478 new drivers, 462 zero‑emission buses in daily service, special routes that handled over 22 million trips during Metro Line 6 works, and rapid reinforcements during the April 28 blackout, alongside a 100% autonomous bus pilot in Casa de Campo.