The five business chambers of public transport ordered a lockout for Wednesday afternoon / Photo: File.
The Minister of Transportation, Diego Giuliano, asserted this Tuesday that During the week “the funds will be deposited” for the collective transport companies of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA), for which it considered that “there would be no reason” for the forceful measure ordered by the Business Chambers between 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. to be carried out this Wednesday.
In a contact with the press at the start of the International Transport Forum, which is taking place at the Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK), the official pointed out that the issue of debt “is already being corrected, because between the Last Friday, Monday, today and this week, we are completing the payment of the compensation fund”.
(FW “There should be no forceful measures tomorrow” Diego Giuliano, Minister of Transportation (FW)
“We are catching up, making a great effort to update the resources that were plannedbecause there is a new cost structure that we must compensate, with which we are catching up this week, so there should be no forceful measures tomorrow,” the minister stressed.
The Minister of Transportation, Diego Giuliano, assured that during this week the companies will receive the funds owed / Photo: File.
In addition, he reported that “we have communicated the situation to the Transportation Chambers regarding the fact that these deposits are going to be made, with which we hope to have the necessary cooperation from them so that tomorrow we have a complete normalization of the transportation system. We have There have been some delays and it is true that there has been a decrease in night services, but we hope to have everything overcome this week”.
The measures announced by the companies
The five bus transport business chambers of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) announced on Monday a series of restrictions on its services from midnightwhich were fulfilled until 5 on Tuesday, after citing a “shortage of resources” to be able to operate normally.
The measure includes a “total suspension” of services between 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. starting Wednesdayand a warning according to which many companies would be forced to not provide night services and reduce frequencies during the day.
“We,” he said, We have reestablished the Transportation Compensation Fund precisely for the interior of the country, a fund that had been virtually eliminated during the previous administration. We have taken the discussion of the Transportation Compensation Fund to Congress, and it was Congress that stipulated the 85 billion that we have to distribute throughout the country.”
He added that they have started and are “over the next few weeks completing the payments.”
“Of course always when there are difficulties they are overcome with the accompaniment of the provincesfrom the municipalities and ours, and the payments are being carried out on a regular basis and in the next few days the payments that were committed will be fulfilled,” he stated.
