The Transport Commission of the Chamber of Deputies will resume this Tuesday the debate on the bills that establish new parameters for the distribution of subsidies to public passenger transport in the interior of the country, in a meeting that will be attended by officials area nationals.
The Secretary of Transportation, Diego Giuliano; the undersecretary of the area, Laura Labat; and the person in charge of Economic and Financial Policy of that portfolio, Carlos Vittor; They will be the members of the Executive Branch who will speak from 2:00 p.m. before the deputies.
Originally The invitation had been sent to Minister Alexis Guerrera, but due to agenda issues he anticipated his absence and delegated the task to part of his team.
In addition, the commission chaired by the Jujuy radical Jorge Rizzotti (UCR), will receive representatives of the Federal Transportation Committee (Cofetra).
The deputies of the different provinces reproach that the distribution is very unequal with respect to the AMBA (city of Buenos Aires and Greater Buenos Aires), which concentrates between 85% and 87% of the subsidies and leaves between 15% and 13% to distribute among the rest of the jurisdictions.
in the AMBAwhere the rates not updated since 2019, the initial ticket is 18 pesoswhile in the provinces they range from 24 to 80 pesos, also depending on the resources that the districts allocate to this sector.
In his report to the Senate on June 2, the chief of staff, Juan Manzur, assured that the national government will insist on the idea of transferring 32 bus lines to the city of Buenos Aires and said that “a 40% increase for the ticket is in process” in that district also depending on the resources that the districts allocate to this sector.
