Havana/Never the old ones gazelles gave as many problems as soon as the new microbuses of the China Foton brandthat do not have been shooting through the streets of several cities in the country for a month. In this regard, a driver was complaining this Monday in Havana, on the route to the Clinical Hospital of 26. The door of the Guagüita He did not close again after a passenger got off, closing it in a blow.
Several people tried to close it, but they could not, and in the end the driver, annoying, had to get off. “They don’t touch the door anymore, they will break it,” he told travelers, dumbfounded. Finally, he found the problem: the man who got off had put the insurance without realizing it, and in that position the door is blocked when it opens.
“If the air conditioning is broken, they cannot blame us, it will be because the cars come badly.”
Murming, the driver recriminated customers not to take care of anything, and said that “several doors have already broken”, in some vehicles, just like air conditioning. A woman on board did not remain silent: “If the air conditioning breaks, they cannot blame us, it will be because the cars come badly.” The driver replied: “They are to blame if they are touching the regulator, that is a freshness.”
At the moment another passenger replied: “But you are to serve the people”, to which the driver replied, setting up the question: “The service does not imply being playing the air conditioning regulator, because if it breaks, the supplier is not responsible for that minor repair, only of large breaks.”
The discussion was encouraged when another passenger brought up the case of a foton Accident in Holguin Last week, from which the ruling party urged Friday that it had already been repaired and was ready to return to its route. “In no case was the accident responsibility of the driver,” said the driver, entrenched in the position that his colleagues are always careful and without referring to the possible poor quality of the vehicles.
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That the doors of the Foton close badly and you have to make effort to fit them, everyone who has mounted in one knows. And they are not the first incidents of newly released microbuses.
On Friday, the police arrested a woman in the Havana Municipality of Lisa for stoned one of the vehicles and break your rear window. 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 and assured that those responsible would receive everything “the weight of the law.”
“What happened to you?” Asked the microphrus of the minibus where this newspaper was going. “It went out alone,” the other replied
Similarly, just on the second day of inauguration of the foton In Havanaone of them remained stranded in the middle of El Vedado, in front of the monument to José Miguel Gómez, on Avenida de los Presidents. “What happened to you?” Asked the microwo of the minibus where this newspaper was going. “It went out alone,” the other replied. The first advised him: “Do not do anything. Don’t touch anything. Call by phone.”
The Foton have been a reason for controversy since Dávila announced his arrival to the island from China and its launch last June, replacing the Gazelle Russians. Initially, the minister had explained that all the buses acquired – 100 in total – would be operating in Havana, but Faced with popular criticismswho claimed that the rest of the provinces only use vehicles, 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.
