After having known that Inflation was 1.9% in Augustthe percentage of increase in most public transport that circulates in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA), which will be 3.9% in October. Meanwhile, the weight of transport in the homes of the Metropolitan Region continues to grow. In August 56% year -on -yearabove inflation.
Both the subway and the groups of groups of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires have a mechanism of Monthly tariff update It depends on Retail price index (CPI) published by Indec. The percentage of inflation that measured the agency in the month, 2 extra percentage points were added.
The province of Buenos Aires performs the same mechanism for collective services operating in their jurisdiction, but Take as criteria the IPC of Greater Buenos Airesone of the categories of which the inflation number is composed at the national level.
Increase in transport in October: how much will the ticket cost
Therefore, as national inflation was 1.9% in August, as well as that of the province, The increase over most transport services will be 3.9%. And it would be as follows:
The exception is the national jurisdiction groupswhose rate is fixed by the government with a calendar of increases, and that did not receive increases since mid -July. For its part, Metropolitan trains continue with the same rate since September 2024.
Transport: Household spending increases
In parallel, in the last report of the Rate and Subsidies Observatory of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Political Economics (Iiep) estimated that An average AMBA home had to spend $ 73,019 in transport during August, an increase of 56% year -on -year.
It is a rise of 22.4 points above inflation, which was 33.6%, and the evolution of the minimum wage, which increased in nominal terms 22.77% against the same month last year.
He Iiep He also estimated that Household spending on public transport increased 30% In the accumulated of January-August, while if it is taken as a starting point December 2023, it is observed A variation of 810%consequence of the tariff adjustment implemented by the government of Javier Milei.
The fall in the use of public transport
This situation occurs in parallel to a general fall in the volume of public transport passengers in the AMBA During the first semester of 2025, product of the increase in the transport rate, the stagnation of the income and an increase in teleworking, as explained to Scope Specialized sources in the subject.
According to INDEC figures, The number of users fell 2.7% against the same 2024 periodnumber that falls to 7.22% in the comparison of the first half of 2023 and Salta at 19% in the measurement against 2019.
Disaggregated by type of transport, The subway is the one that shows the strongest casualties: -8.7% against 2024, -18.16% against 2023 and 41.5% compared to 2019. On the opposite sidewalk is the collectivewhich barely fell 0.35% compared to the previous year, -6.18% compared to 2023 and -11.33% against 2019.
Finally, the train fell 7.84% compared to 2024. curiously, It fell less in 2023 (-3.76%), but against 2019 it contracted 27.63%.
Source: Ambito
