2023-11-13 04:14:00
The public hearing for the urban transportation rate that the municipality called for this Monday will have eleven speakers, according to the registration registry that closed on Friday at noon. Although interest in participating decreased compared to previous hearings, displeasure with the increase sought by the company also circulated in public expressions and messages on social networks.
It is possible that the discontent generated by the last UTA strike that It left the city without buses for more than 48 hours.
References from the Multisectorial Transport – which brings together users and neighborhood representatives – anticipated their rejection of the request presented by the company Mi Bus to bring the service rate to 319 pesoswhich would represent an increase of more than 100%since today the ticket costs 158 pesos.
The municipality enabled for the first time the possibility of registering for the hearing via the web, in addition to in-person registration at the Transit department, as usual. But that facility did not generate greater enthusiasm and only 11 people secured the right to speak as speakers to provide your opinion.
The hearing will be held today at 6:00 p.m. in the Press room of the Civic Center and the representation of the municipal Executive will be in charge of the Secretary of Inspection, Sebastián Rodríguez.
In addition to the listed exhibitors, all those who want to listen to the presentation of the Mi Bus company and the speakers’ positions will be able to participate freely, and will also have a moment to ask questions.
The Partido Obrero publicly expressed its rejection of the “high rate” and said that what Mi Bus claimed “implies an exorbitant increase for the worker, which is not consistent with their income”.
According to that organization, not only the providing company but also the municipal Executive, the Legislature and “the entire political arc, by action or omission, endorse this increase.” They criticized the elected mayor Walter Cortés for not having yet issued “a forceful rejection of the increase and much less a fundamental solution to the transportation crisis.”
The Partido Obrero requested the opening of the company’s accounting books and called for participation in Monday’s hearing.
One of the members of the Multisector of Transportation, Concepción Mohana, confirmed that she will participate as a speaker at the hearing, although she acknowledged that they do not have many expectations with this instance of participation.
He said he will express his rejection of the rate increase. “We don’t want it because they haven’t shown where that figure comes from.”, he assured.
According to Mohana, from the documentation provided by the company and that appears in the file made available to the speakers “Conclusions cannot be drawn, because there is a lot of data missing, for example on the insurance of the units, on the license fees paid, also on the passengers transported.”, whose number determines the rate by crossing them with the costs.
Mohana understood that “the quality of the service is very bad” and that factor cannot be left out of the analysis. He said that “the most important thing is to assume that the transport rate has a social character, it cannot be considered only as a mercantilist rate like any price set by a company. In the middle is the regulatory State.”
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