The terminal of Three Crosses expects a circulation of approximately 4,500 buses until Tuesday, on the occasion of the long weekend of Christmas in Uruguay. The company increased the offer of services to supply the increase in demand.
Christmas It is a time of year when many people take the opportunity to travel, meet with family and friends, and spend the holidays with their loved ones. For this reason, the demand for tickets tends to increase at this time of year and, with it, bus circulation. Even more so if it falls on a long weekend, like this year.
Given this scenario, from Friday until next Tuesday, the Tres Cruces terminal expects a movement of close to 4,500 buses, according to the head of Control Tower, Pablo Saravíto Telemundo.
A peculiarity of these dates is that there is no destination that sells more than another and that many even come from the interior to Montevideo to spend with family, the main reason why Uruguayans travel at this time of year.
“The movement is taking place throughout the country and even Montevideo, It is not like the summer season that there is a marked movement towards the east of the country,” said Saraví, in this regard.
For his part, the leader highlighted the expectations for the remainder of 2023, including the end of the year. “Since the beginning of summer season until January 2, when we are going to have a fairly large movement, we hope that it will be closing in about 13,000 buses that pass through Tres Cruces,” he expressed.
Buses will have changes in their frequency
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.
Source: Ambito
