2023-11-28 15:30:13
Starting next February 1, the bus ticket in Bariloche It will cost 320 pesosa number that rounds up the “technical” rate intended by the Mibus company according to its cost equation, but in the time remaining until that date there will be two other intermediate increases, which seem designed to mitigate the impact.
The flat rate in force today throughout the urban transportation system is 158 pesos. According to the resolution signed this morning by Mayor Gustavo Gennuso, From Friday -December 1- it will cost 200 pesos. But that value will only apply for one month. On January 1, SUBE machines will begin to discount 270 pesos for each card y On February 1, the price of each trip will become 320 pesos.
The company holding the concession had requested 319,70 and defended that value in the public hearing held on November 13. But days later he tried to advance a little further and informed the Transportation Monitoring Commission that the 319 pesos were a value corresponding to September and had become old. He noted that currently his break-even rate is 428 pesoswhat it would have meant to apply an increase of 170%.
This last proposal was ignored by the municipality, which adjusted to Mibus’ initial intention, with a rate applicable to next February, that is, five months following the cost assessment that supported the update.
According to the values established today by the municipality, the increase will be 26% as of December 1, while with the final rate for February the increase in the urban transport ticket will reach 102,5%. Bariloche had started the year with a rate of 115 pesos, so the increase in 13 months will have been 178%, when the declared inflation – as expressly highlighted in the resolution – “rises to 142.7% year-on-year”.
Gennuso justified the increase in the need to “maintain the operation and maintenance of the urban passenger transport service and thus be able to guarantee the right to circulate through the city, equalizing social gaps and offering new opportunities.” A formula that is repeated year following year in each tariff resolution.
Tickets for the two different routes received a different treatment, whose users – mostly tourists – will have to bear a higher cost. As had already happened on previous occasions, the rate on line 72 that covers the center-airport route registered increases proportionally higher than the flat rate. On December 1 it will cost 420 pesos, on January 1 it will cost 570 pesos and from February 1 that route will have a ticket of 680 pesos. That is to say an increase of 112% of the current value.
On the other hand, for the service that connects the center with Cerro Catedral – although it maintains high values - the impact in percentage will be lower. Today it costs 510 pesos. From Friday the rate will go to 600 pesosJanuary 1 to 800 pesos and on February 1st 950 pesoswith which the increase to that date will have been 86.2%.
Students of primary, secondary, tertiary and university public establishments maintain the right to travel with a free ticket.
The public hearing, a procedure
As in all rate reviews, the municipality had to call a public hearing, which was held last Monday the 13th and in which 11 speakers participated, all with severe accusations once morest the company, the Gennuso government and in rejection of the increase.
One of the speakers, Elena Florin, said today that the municipality failed to comply with the legal obligation to make a written and individualized return to each person, with the justification of why their contributions were accepted or rejected.
During the same hearing, another speaker, Concepción Mohana, had indicated that this non-compliance (repeated in each call) was grounds for nullity.
In his resolution today, Gennuso pointed out in relation to the hearing that “each and every one of the proposals made by the speakers were heard and considered, clarifying and understanding that they did not deal with reliable foundations regarding the polynomial formula (to determine the rate). ), the costs recorded therein or that refute the documentation presented by the company.” He alleged that the answers are contained in a record “that is available to the community.”
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