The minimum collective ticket will exceed $ 500, while the subway will pierce the $ 1,000. The adjustment affects more than 280 lines.
The public transport of the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA) will have a new increase of 3.6% in Augustafter the dissemination of a new inflation fact. Thus, The collective will exceed $ 500 and the subway will pierce $ 1,000.
The adjustment governs for the subway and for the lines that are under the orbit of the city of Buenos Aires (CABA) and the province of Buenos Aires (PBA). Not so for the lines that depend on the national state.
With this increase, calculated from the rise in the National Consumer Price Index (IPC) of June (1.6%) plus 2%, the minimum collective ticket in CABA will go from $ 488.70 to $ 506.29, while in the province of Buenos Aires (PBA) it will rise from $ 489.61 to $ 507.24. Meanwhile, the subway will climb from $ 996 to $ 1,032.
The increases They will affect the 31 lines that operate exclusively within the Buenos Aires territory and that include 4, 6, 7, 12, 23, 25, 26, 34, 39, 42, 44, 47, 50, 61, 62, 64, 65, 68, 76, 84, 90, 99, 102, 106, 107, 108, 109, 115, 118, 132 and 151. In the province of Buenos Aires there are 250 affected lines.
This correction responds to the policy of subsidies to public transport, which implies that passengers must assume a higher percentage of the real cost of the service.
The groups under national orbit will rise 6.1% this week
It is worth remembering that, in parallel, the National Jurisdiction groups, which circulate through the AMBA, will increase 6.1% from this week, as part of the quarterly adjustment approved by the Executive Power in May.
The update of the rates corresponds to the third and final section of the increase of 21.52% provided by the Ministry of Transportation in the last days of May. This series of increases in the National A AMBA groups is given after eight months without updates, since the last rise had been in August of 2024, which produced a lag with the lines of Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires jurisdiction that circulate through the same territory.
Source: Ambito
