The celebration of holidays in the country entails changes in the usual bus and garbage collection schedules.
The services of transport and others like those of garbage collection will be modified throughout the days of today and tomorrow on the occasion of the celebration of the Christmas Eve and the Christmas throughout Uruguay. What are the issues to take into account?
He urban and suburban transport will reduce its frequencies starting this afternoon, as confirmed by the different unions. For example, from the Cutcsa Workers Union (UTC) They reported that the last departure of urban buses will be at 7:29 p.m. and that there will be no work on Monday the 25th, on the contrary, the workers will return to the night shifts that same night.
In the case of lines interdepartmental and differentials from the same company, line 214 will have its last departure at 6:23 p.m.; 227 at 5:45 p.m.; 230 at 6:43 p.m.; and 268 at 6:15 p.m. Meanwhile, C1 will leave for the last time at 5:05 p.m.; C4 at 4:40 p.m.; the C5 at 4:25 p.m., and the DM1 differential at 6:45 p.m., leaving from Punta Carretas.
The cooperatives Transport, for their part, unified the end of the services for this afternoon at 5:29 p.m., as confirmed from the National Union of Workers and Transport Workers (Unott) to El País. As for the 25, the cooperatives will work with a third of the fleet.
In the case of the suburbans, this Sunday there will be a gradual reduction of bus departures starting at 5:30 p.m., and will have a frequency equivalent to 60% of a Sunday. In turn, on the 25th there will be special services throughout the day, while on Tuesday the 26th summer time will begin to take effect. The special schedules for both festive dates are now available on the website STM.
STM service locations will be open on Sunday only in New Shopping Center and Punta Carretas Shopping between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., and will remain closed on Monday.
No collection on December 25
For its part, and also on the occasion of the celebration of Christmas, the Municipality of Montevideo (IM) decided not to carry out garbage collection on the 25th on its usual route. For this, an additional night shift was added last night, and today an extra service will also be carried out between 6 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Although there will be no regular collection services on December 25, there will be motorcycle service at the request of those who require it.
During today, meanwhile, the ecocenters They will be open until 3 p.m., while in Christmas They will remain closed.
Source: Ambito
