The Ministry of Transportation stressed that the benefit that grants discounts to passengers who use more than one means of public transportation will continue.
The Government ratified the continuity from the benefit of the SUBE Network in the AMBAwhich grants discounts on the price of tickets to those users who use two or more public transport tickets in a period of less than two hours. In addition, they ratified the continuity of the Social Ratewhich offers a discount of 55% for traveling by public transport.
Through a statement, the The Ministry of Transportation said that it “defined to end favoritism towards some jurisdictions in relation to the resources destined to finance transportation” and ensure federalism and equal conditions in all districts.”
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The Government crossed into the province of Buenos Aires and denied a cut in transport subsidies
The official announcement came after the Minister of Government of Buenos Aires, Carlos Bianco, stated this morning that the national administration would suspend the benefit. “We have already been informed that this will be eliminated. The Government is going to eliminate it and this will have a very big impact on the province of Buenos Aires and, specifically, on the pockets of the people of Buenos Aires.”
However, the Government denied this version and confirmed that “the National State will continue with the program of discounts of 50 and 75% on the ticket price for trips on the 113 lines of national jurisdiction of the AMBA and on trains“.
The Executive Branch did not let the Buenos Aires native’s criticism go unnoticed and pointed out: “Because the National State only subsidizes jurisdictional transportation with social fares, the Government of the province of Buenos Aires cannot demand privileges for its jurisdiction and even less have an action that is associated with political advantage,” they said.
They also replied: “It should be remembered that in July the province of Buenos Aires had agreed to take charge of the costs of the system on the bus lines in its territory, but now it has decided not to finance the SUBE Network, harming more than 450 thousand residents of Buenos Aires per day who will not be able to access the benefits. The measure is in line with the jurisdictions implementing the discounts they consider appropriate, as happens, for example, in Mendoza and Rosario, among others.”
At this morning’s press conference, Bianco denied that the province of Buenos Aires had any privileges due to the Integrated Ticket subsidy and ruled out the possibility of the Province taking charge of these expenses: “These are very high amounts, $5 billion per month. We will work on it, but Today the Province does not have the resources to meet these amounts.“he later said.
Finally, the national administration stressed that “they aim to resources are distributed equitably in all provinces of the country, assuming the expenses exclusively of the responsibilities that correspond to it.”
Source: Ambito
