The night services of groups of the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA) They will stop circulating between 10 p.m. this Friday and 5 a.m. Saturday.while the frequencies will be reduced in the remaining schedules, while sources from the Ministry of Transport warned that fines and penalties will be applied if the companies do not comply with the service.
The decision was announced by the companies that make up the Business Chamber of Passenger Transport (CEAP), the Business Chamber of Urban Transport of Buenos Aires (CETUBA) and the Chamber of Transport of the Province of Buenos Aires (CTPBA), which allege a late payment of benefits.
Meanwhile, sources from the Transportation portfolio indicated that, although there is still a part of the debt, it has been paid week by week and reduced, so “The announcement made to date is not understandable”.
The carriers argue that “users began to pay a 40% increase in public transport rates on August 1” and that “today they received a new transfer as part of payment.”
In the same sense, they warned that “Public automotive transport services must be complied with, otherwise the CNRT will continue to carry out minutes and fines the companies.”
“Part of the present debt corresponds to the lack of payments from CABA for the services of that jurisdiction which has been covered by the national State” and that “the payment schemes proposed to the companies were carried out and accredited,” explained the same sources.
In a statement, the bus companies maintained that they were “forced to announce” the measure, “due to the increasing delay in the payment of tariff compensation that has been generated since March of the current year.”
And they argued that “The suffocating financial situation imposes the need to suspend night services, adapt the number of day services to Saturday services and continue with this type of restriction until they have the necessary resources to regularize services.”
The chambers added that “to date, the lines of the federal district, national and provincial have without charging the amount equivalent to one month of the contributions made by the State to cover the essential costs for the normal operation of the services, a situation that already cannot be sustained any longer and that it will progressively end up causing the paralysis of the system, which is to be avoided through the rationalization that is announced in the present”.
Finally, the entities, on behalf of their affiliated companies, asked “to apologize to the public for the inconveniences that occur, reiterating that what is detailed is done with the aim of avoiding total paralysis and giving more time to obtain solutions to the problem raised. ”.
