Emilia vexler
04/07/2021 10:24
Clarín.com
Cities
Updated 04/07/2021 2:31 PM
"This is the last day before closing."
This Wednesday, at the Morón station of the
Sarmiento train
, the weather is one of something that ends and something that returns.
While the government's announcements about the new restrictions are still not entirely clear - questions arise as to whether restaurants will open until midnight or 22 ?;
or if it could be circulated at night - among the passengers it seems clear that there are going to be
changes in transport.
And that is what was breathed between the platforms.
Only essentials may travel.
And teachers and teachers.
But
which ones are essential?
Those of the first period, the most restrictive of the quarantine, or all the items that were added later?
Will it be necessary to obtain the certificate in Caring?
Will I have to take a turn to travel on the train?
The doubts are almost the same as those in March 2020. But the reality is the
record of cases
and the slow progress of the vaccination plan.
According to mobility specialists, what should be done is to reduce the number of people traveling, not the frequencies.
For this reason, the authorities would appeal for more people to work remotely and not have to move, to
prioritize those who must travel to work.
María Rot is 45 years old, is a domestic
worker
and is
afraid that work at home will be suspended again
.
He is traveling from Morón to Ramos Mejía.
It has a queue block at the 242 stop. “I prefer not to use the train.
I had Covid in September but the new strains scare me and
there are any number of people on the train.
In the group in Province, not much is controlled but I can tell you that nothing to do with before the pandemic.
People stop at rush hour but
you never cross a crowded, crowded bus.
The train is always full ”, he tells
Clarin
.
Maria asks if they are going to close everything.
"Do you know what will happen to those of us who work cleaning?
Are we going to be able to travel by public transport?
" He knows that he will have to wait for the official announcements. It is another point that generates doubts in this last day before the new measures and rekindles the fear of "they close everything."
Morón station of the Sarmiento train.
Doubts are growing among passengers about what the new travel restrictions will be like.
Photo: Luciano Thieberger
Further on, on the same block of bus stops, people are still lining up.
Nobody exceeds 30 centimeters without having another in front of them.
There is no social distancing
.
The busiest lines, after 242 (Liniers, Morón and San Justo), are 236 (Barrio Belgrano) and 317 (Crovara).
There is no inspector.
Clarín
traveled from Moreno to Liniers and found that there are more people standing by car than they should.
At times, it seemed like a normal trip, one of those before the pandemic.
Clash of bodies to get up on time and
people crowded in each space.
Control is strict in Morón
but the formations arrive with many people from the previous stations heading to the City.
Abel García climbs Sarmiento in Morón.
It says that the train arrives full of the previous stations.
Photo: Luciano Thieberger
“I don't know what the rest will do but I always take my turn.
Here they control a lot but it has
been full already before
.
I don't feel 100% sure but at least there's this about shifts, ”says Abel Garcia (32).
He is sitting on a bench at that station, with his Conicet chinstrap.
It came from Hurlingham and goes to downtown.
"I am
essential personnel
and there should be more care in public transport for us," he says.
He works in the State, in the Informatics area.
“It will not change anything.
The first few days you surely have the gendarmes here checking that there are not many people.
But for you to come (through the media) to show that everything is ok.
Afterwards, everyone looks the other way.
At one point it was very, very difficult to travel by train.
No one was passing.
But then he traveled badly again, "says Marcelo. He is 70 years old, works as Security in a pharmacy in Ciudadela and has been vaccinated.
“I got vaccinated in February, because I entered the category of Health personnel.
How many people here do you think are also vaccinated?
Nobody.
Yes,
most of the people who travel and work are young ”
, he reasons.
Antonella González travels from Morón every day.
He says that he always sees a lot of people standing on the Sarmiento trains.
Photo: Luciano Thieberger.
Antonella González is 19 years old, she is also from Hurlingham and is in another bank in Morón.
“I am very surprised that there is always a shift on the train when I take it out and when you travel you
see a lot of people standing there.
It is not understood much how it can be ”, he complains.
She studies dance and says that after 8 and at noon
“too many people travel with me”.
The gendarmes at Morón station are there.
But Marcelo did not pass by them and they, three men,
did not approach him to scan his turn.
There are also cameras installed on each windlass to detect use of the chinstrap and control the temperature as it passes.
They were put on three months ago but they
don't work.
They never worked.
There was a pilot test at the Caballito station that had the same outcome with this technology.
“I don't know how it will be tomorrow but here (through Sarmiento) people continue to take turns to travel.
But it's from 6 to 10 heading to Eleven.
And then the control is in the opposite direction, to Moreno, from 4 pm to 8 pm ”,
a TBA employee
tells
Clarín
.
Morón station of the Sarmiento train.
Permit controls are few and the formations sometimes go there complete.
Photo: Luciano Thieberger
While in Morón, after 7 o'clock, the bustle of the rush hour mixes with that of the traveling clothing stalls that even make it difficult to cross the tracks, at
Ramos Mejía
station
calm rules until the train arrives.
The distance is respected and those who go up to the formation with their
bicycles
abound
.
Liniers was a station almost liberated this early Wednesday.
Without gendarmes and
even with some open turnstiles.
In front of
Clarín
and a television mobile, a TBA employee, with an arrogant attitude, shouted
"shift and updated CARE application
.
"
People crowded in front of the turnstiles, confused.
On the platform, the trains already arrive “with protocol”, that is, with people seated and very few people standing.
It is the "filter" of Moreno's control.
And now comes the new filter in Liniers.
"They already told us that from tomorrow the app and the shift will be requested again," confesses another employee.
With a megaphone, a TBA employee asks for the
“correct use of a chinstrap”
and respect for social distance.
But shift control inevitably makes
people crowd.
Everything seems to indicate that from this Thursday there will be more controls.
It still remains to define who will be able to travel and if the permits will have to be renewed.
Meanwhile, doubts multiply.
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