The owner, Carolina Cosse, stated that in principle there would be no variants “with the elements that I have today.”
“All the participants in the transport system are making a great effort because the demand has not returned to what it was before the pandemic,” said the mayor.
Given the possibility that the price of fuel will drop in September, the mayor of Montevideo, Carolina Cosse, said that they are analyzing what will happen to the ticket for the Metropolitan Transportation System (STM), and that it would be maintained, but “with the elements that I have today,” he clarified.
“We are monitoring all the time. All the participants in the transportation system are making a great effort because the demand has not returned to what it was before the pandemic, and therefore we are making that difference to maintain the price of the ticket. It is a much more complex issue than a single factor,” he explained.
In that sense, he remarked that the transportation system “went through a historic crisis and demand fell by 80% or more,” and compared it with 2002, when the drop was 10%, he said.
“We re-established the advisory council in which companies, workers and ourselves participate, to see a large number of issues,” he added and also referred to the proposal to remove speakers from buses that has generated controversy in recent days. : “We have proposed, for example, that the speakers be removed from the buses, because we believe that noise also harms the environment, there is also a role for transport in the greenest Montevideo, and people have the right to travel on public transport with their own music or without music”.
