The protest of the
five business chambers of the bus transport of the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA)
deepens: this Tuesday night
the service of all the lines will be suspended
from 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. A
total cessation of activities, between 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m., for Wednesday.
Although the Ministry of Transport assured that
the money owed
this week will be deposited, and a key meeting was expected, the conflict continues.
"We do not have
any official notification
, nor a response from the Ministry regarding the
debt of $30 billion
for unpaid subsidies. There is almost a whole month of arrears and also the payments are miscalculated,"
Luciano Fusaro, from
Clarín, told Clarín
. the Argentine Association of Automotive Transport Entrepreneurs (AAETA), and added: "The
State knows this. And also that the situation worsened with inflation. We cannot mark prices because
the rate is set by the State.
So, we do not have left no choice but to rationalize resources by reducing night frequencies and stopping the service in off-peak hours, to
affect the population as little as possible"
.
Regarding
the
monthly rate increases
that have been in force since this year, according to Fusaro
"they only serve the State to reduce subsidies."
The business chambers also stated that the only solution is to cancel the debt.
And they warned that the problem could worsen next month
if they do not have the money to pay salaries at the beginning of the month.
According
to the information provided by the cameras, they have
50,000 employees and 18,500 units throughout Amba
.
"There are ten million people
who use the services that may be affected if the State does not review the subsidy policy and update the values in this inflationary scenario," they stated.
The conflict between the bus companies and the national government continues.
Photo: Luciano Thieberger.
This Tuesday morning, the Minister of Transportation, Diego Giuliano, assured the media that they began to pay.
"We are catching up, we are obviously making a great effort to
update the resources that were planned,
because there is a new cost structure that we must compensate, with which we are
catching up this week
, so there should be no measures strength tomorrow," said the official.
"We have communicated the situation to the transport chambers regarding the fact that these deposits are going to be made, with which we hope to have the necessary cooperation from them so that tomorrow we have a complete normalization of the transport system. We have had some
delays
and It is true that there has been a decrease in night services, but we hope to have everything overcome this week," added Giuliano.
However, from the cameras they assured that until this Tuesday at noon
the announced force measures were maintained,
both the reduction of services at night, and the total stoppage for Wednesday.
The protest is led by the Business Chamber of Passenger Auto Transport (CEAP), Business Chamber of Urban Transport of Buenos Aires (CETUBA), Chamber of Transport of the Province of Buenos Aires (CTPBA), Argentine Association of Businessmen of Automotive Transport (AAETA) and Chamber of United Businessmen of Urban Passenger Transport of Buenos Aires (CEUTUPBA).
The affected services are those provided by
lines 1 to 199
, which circulate through the City of Buenos Aires and part of the suburbs.
The companies insist that the protest is carried out "in order to make
the benefits compatible with the available economic resources."
For this reason, many companies are forced to not provide night services and reduce frequencies during the day."
In addition, in a statement released in the last few hours, they added that the time of the protests was chosen "in order not to totally affect the hours of greatest demand."
According to the companies, the State did not fulfill
its commitment to update the determination of costs to March values
, with objective and representative prices and indicators of the economic reality of the market."
The entities added: "To date,
funds corresponding to the first quarter of the current year
are pending accreditation , for a total value equivalent to almost the total compensation for
a full month."
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