Havana/Police arrested this Friday in the municipality of La Lisa, in Havana, a woman for stoning one of the Foton vehicles for passenger transport that circulate in the city and break her rear windshield. The incident was disseminated by the official press and the Minister of Transportation, Eduardo Rodríguez Dávila, who insisted on the seriousness of this type of aggressions – all frequent in recent times – and said that “those responsible will have the weight of the law.”
Dávila shared on his official Facebook account the message that he received from the director of Taxis Cuba narrating the fact. As he says, on 1:30 pm the Chinese minibus that covers Route 48, between 26 and large bridges and the Frank País hospital, headed to this last destination when a passenger asked him to stop. The driver stopped in front of a motorcycle that was parked and tried to start.
From this moment on, the story rises in tone: “According to the driver, the driver invades her path, without causing any collision. She in a decomposed way claims the Micro Foton driver, who apologizes and continues the march,” says the manager. Minutes later, the woman reaches the photon when she arrives at Frank País and launches a stony that breaks the rear glass of the minibus. After the aggression, the driver fled.
“The driver decides to try to capture her and is supported by two DTI officers, managed to stop her and transferred her to the 7th PNR station in the municipality of La Lisa,” continues the official, who added that the Foton was subjected to an expertise to impose a complaint against the woman.
For his part, Dávila made “a call to all” and insisted that “what happened in itself, deserves the greatest repudiation”
For his part, Dávila made “a call to all” – as he titled his Post– And he insisted that “what happened in itself, deserves the greatest repudiation, while the life of the passengers was endangered and a means of transport deteriorated that has cost us so much to acquire in the difficult conditions in which we live.”
He also stressed that “the incident occurred in a usual traffic zone and, although there were no injuries, it generates alarm due to the level of implicit violence.”
The Foton have been a reason for controversy since Dávila announced his arrival to the island from China and its launch last June. Initially, the minister had explained that all the buses acquired – 100 in total – would be operating in Havana, but given the popular criticisms, who claimed that the rest of the provinces only came vehicles of use, it was decided to leave only 50 in the capital.
The local media of the territories benefited from the other half of the lot enthusiastically celebrated the arrival of 20 units to Santiago de Cuba, 10 to Holguín, the same number to Camagüey, five to Villa Clara and another five blind from Ávila, the champion province in the national emulation for July 26.
The Foton have been a reason for controversy since Dávila announced his arrival on the island from China and its launch last June
Both the Foton and the tricycles and funeral vehicles that come from China and have arrived in mass to the island in recent years are funded by the Fund for the Development of Public Transportation, an attempt to modernize within the economic limitations of the country.
However, far from resolving the enormous transport crisis, the purchase of small capacity vehicles responds more to fuel shortage and currencies than to a deep redesign of the transport system.
This Friday, Dávila reported on his networks about the acquisition of 120 vehicles – electric and combustion – destined for funeral services. At the same time, the state press celebrated the incorporation of 15 new Foton ambulances for the capital.
