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Transporters lose 80% of income due to toll payment After 24 hours of operation, the steel spike bars puncture tires have burst the tires of three vehicles whose drivers evaded payment of the booth of Las Américas, in Ecatepec.
These are two trucks and a cargo trailer that were damaged when passing over the spikes.
For this reason, during the last day, cargo and passenger transport drivers have preferred to pay the amount of the toll.
One of them is George. He is a trailer driver who says that he has never tried to drive past without paying for the trip.
They prefer booth than assaults in Ecatepec
And it is that he says that it favors him to make use of the Mexiquense External Circuit because it is a road that surrounds the city and prevents the driver from entering the streets of Ecatepec.
The neighborhoods of that municipality represent a risk for the driver who enters the city three times a week. His trips, he says, are a danger due to the delinquency he finds in the municipality.
That is why the man considers that the puncture bars were placed to force public transport drivers to pay the fee.
But for them, paying the toll means losing 80 percent of their income.
Andrés says that yesterday he had to make too many trips to bring money home. And it is that following four laps around the circuit, he realized that he had not made a profit.
It is the motorcyclists who have no problem avoiding the steel spike bar. They take advantage of the empty spaces of the 18 lanes of the booth to pass the boom and avoid the bars.]]>
