More than one hundred bus lines in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA) night services will be suspended from 10 p.m. this Thursday and until 5 a.m. Friday, a measure that will be repeated on the holiday next Mondaybut in that case throughout the day, in claim for payment of subdisios that the businessmen assure that the State owes them.
The measure -which constitutes an employer lockout- was confirmed by the Argentine Association of Automotive Transport Entrepreneurs (Aaeta), the Chamber of Transport of the Province of Buenos Aires (Ctpba) and the Business Chamber of Urban Transport of Buenos Aires (Cetuba). .
As advertised, The stoppage of public passenger transport services will be in force from 10 p.m. this Thursday until 5 a.m. Fridaywhile during the rest of the day tomorrow there will be a reduction in frequencies.
The companies focused on the “delay in payment” of the tariff compensations that -they pointed out- “have been generated since the month of March”
In addition, the employers already anticipated that on Monday they will not start the units during the whole day, with which the holiday for the passage to the immortality of General José de San Martín will take place in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires without bus service.
The actions – indicated the business chambers in a statement – will govern “until the normalization of the payments owed” by the National Government.
In that sense, the companies put the focus on the “delay in payment” of the tariff compensations that -they pointed out- “have been generated since the month of March”.
“To date, the lines of the federal, national and provincial districts have the amount equivalent to one month of the contributions made by the national State to cover the essential costs for the normal operation of the services without being charged,” they indicated in the statement.
The statement from the transport chambers concludes by asking “apologies to the public for any inconvenience that may occur”
At the same time, they warned that, “if the amount owed is not canceled immediately”, the companies will enter into a “total paralysis”.
The statement from the transport chambers concludes by requesting “apologies to the public for any inconvenience that may occur”, and stresses that the stoppage of services They have the objective of “avoiding total paralysis and giving more time to obtain solutions to the problem posed”.
In this way, the lockout will affect lines 2, 4, 15, 29, 33, 37, 39, 45, 46, 47, 49, 53, 59, 61, 62, 64, 70, 80, 86. 88, 93, 95, 96, 97, 102, 105, 114, 118, 123, 124, 126, 129, 154, 160, 166, 179, 180, 181, 185 and 193.
It will also include lines 203, 205, 218, 228 F, 236, 244, 248 C, 269, 284, 288, 291, 295, 302, 303, 306, 311, 312, 313, 315, 318, 320, 325 , 328, 329, 333, 338, 350, 351, 355, 378, 382, 390, 395, 406, 407, 422, 437, 440, 441, 443, 461, 462, 463, 464, 500, 501, 502 , 503, 504, 506A, 509, 511, 518, 520, 522, 524, 527, 541, 543, 544, and 549.
