2024-02-02 19:07:53
This Friday, an increase in the value of public transportation in the Metropolitan region was announced, which will begin at 00 hours this Sunday, February 4.
In case of the adult fare will increase $20while the school and senior citizen, $10. This, in the subsidized services of RED buses, Santiago Metro and Tren Nos-Estación Central.
This was communicated by the panel of public transportation experts, which indicated that in use of the powers granted to it by law 20,378, which establishes the national subsidy for public transportation, it has determined to adjust said values.
He highlighted that the adjustment is established in order to reach a rate level that, together with the existing subsidy for public transportation, allows financing the system.
And in that sense, the increase in value would be a response to the increase in different components, such as the price of oil and energy.
Experts have reiterated on several occasions that the freeze, which kept the rate unchanged for four years, meant that The $230 pesos increase in effective cost will not be transferred that the system has had.
It is worth mentioning that this is the second rate increase that has been carried out since the social outbreak.
The first was in August 2023, which rose by $10 pesos, and now, 6 months later, it rises by $20. Which in total adds up to $30 pesos, the same amount as in October 2019, caused the start of said demonstrations in the country.
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