Overview
- The Transport Ministry posted announcements in the EU Official Journal for future tenders covering 31 of the 34 national bus corridors, opening bidding to European operators.
- The revised map keeps all current stops and simplifies the system by moving from 75 contracts to 34, expanding the original 22-corridor design.
- Most autonomous communities rejected a €40 million state offer to assume shorter routes, and Castilla-La Mancha says the funding terms leave a €9 million shortfall.
- Galicia retains rural stops and a Madrid–Sanxenxo corridor, while the published list also details six routes affecting Castilla-La Mancha such as Madrid–Toledo–Badajoz and Madrid–Albacete–Alicante.
- Three corridors—Castro-Urdiales–Bilbao, Madrid–Valencia, and Madrid–Zaragoza–Barcelona—were already tendered in 2022 and are not part of the latest notices.