Thousands of people traveling by bus were again affected this Thursday morning in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires by a new suspension of service on more than 100 lines between 10 p.m. last night and 5 a.m. this morningand a reduction of the frequencies from that time arranged by the employers.
This is a measure that has as its axis the subsidies for passenger transport and the delay in payment by the city of Buenos Aires, and that occurs despite the payments on account made by the Ministry of Transport of the Nation of the debt that it maintained with the companies that circulate through the metropolitan area.
The employer lockout has been repeated every day since last Friday and affects passengers about 100 bus lines out of a total of 400 that circulate in the city of Buenos Aires and the suburbs.
In this sense, the Undersecretary of Economic and Financial Policy of the Ministry of Transport, Carlos Vittor, said this Wednesday that a payment of $3.9 billion had been made “on account of the debt with the urban passenger transport companies of the AMBA” and hoped that the service would be normalized.
“We are having a small debt in relation to the payments that we make on a regular basis; of those payments we are owing $6,000 million, half a month in total, $4,400 million from the national jurisdiction lines and $1,600 million from the city lines. from Buenos Aires,” he detailed.
However, he specified that the payments to the lines of national jurisdiction were going to be accredited between yesterday and today in the morningand maintained that the lines of the city of Buenos Aires were not going to collect it because the Buenos Aires Government “has not yet taken charge” of their partsaid the official.
“We are asking the Government of the City of Buenos Aires to contribute its share, but there is still no response,” said the national official, who clarified that “it is not that they have not done so, but they have done so insufficiently.” “.
“They say that we are in negotiations, that they collaborate with the financing, but they made a commitment to take charge of the subsidies and compensation in 2019, but they have not yet done so,” Vittor emphasized in his claim to the City Government.
