In a press conference, the official specified that the alternative will be available for users of buses and trains under national jurisdiction and can be managed from October 20.
The Minister of Transportation of the Nation, Diego Giuliano, announced today at a press conference that passengers will be able to waive the subsidies applied to the fares of the transport passenger public.
In a press conference, the official specified that the alternative will be available for users of buses and trains under national jurisdiction and can be managed from October 20 through the website. argentina.gob.ar/SUBE.
The conference, which took place at the Ministry of Economy, will also include the Secretary of Transportation Management, Jimena Lopez, the president of Trenes Argentinos Operations and Infrastructure Martín Marinucci and the undersecretary of Economic and Financial Policy of Transportation, Carlos Vittor.
Rates frozen until after the elections
At the end of August, the Government froze bus and train fares in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) until after the elections to moderate the impact of inflation.
The measure was made official with the Resolution 501/2023 in Official bulletin. The Ministry of Transportation’s justification for taking the measure was the following: “the public land transport of urban and suburban passengers is a indispensable tool for the implementation of the daily activities of the population, whose main function is the transfer of the members of the community to each of the places where they are developed, constituting, in this sense, a first link for economic-social development. “.
“That as a consequence of this situation, the existence of a right to transportation and mobility, whose owners are the citizens and that the National State is committed to protecting according to the objectives determined for this State Portfolio,” he highlights.
And he closes: “That one of the actions by which the protection of this right is materialized is to provide the possibility of access public service of passenger transportation to the entire whole populationpreserving the nature of a mandatory provision for the satisfaction of primary collective needs”.
Transportation rates: how much does it cost to travel by bus and trains
After freezing, the following values will be taken as reference in the AMBA:
- The minimum ticket (between 0 and 3 kilometers): $52.96;
- Section from 3 to 6 km: $59;
- Section from 6 to 12 kilometers: $63.54;
- Trips from 12 to 27 km: $68.09;
- More than 27 km: $72.61.
For their part, the rates of train They will be as follows:
- Miter Line: the minimum $33.28.
- Sarmiento Line: the minimum $33.28.
- San Martín Line: the minimum $33.28.
- Tren de la Costa: the minimum $33.28.
- Roca Line: the minimum $25.72.
- Belgrano Sur Line: the minimum $25.72.
- Urquiza Line: the minimum $25.72.
- Belgrano Norte Line: the minimum $25.72.
News in development.-
Source: Ambito
