One of the Buenos Aires City Subway trains was stopped by security personnel who were trying to stop a passenger who had not paid the fare from getting off the train.
The Subway line A witnessed a tense moment on Thursday when passengers in one of the carriages began arguing among themselves and with a security agent, after tried to remove a man who was traveling without having paid for the ticket.
In the images captured by one of the passengers, the man who had not paid the fare exclaimed to the security guard: “Call the police to arrest me because I didn’t pay the ticket. I don’t have the money to pay.”
After that moment, some passengers began to offer to pay the ticket and be able to continue with the trip, but the security guard, who assured that “if it is up to us, he should travel,” refused, alluding to the order coming from above: ‘‘He has to get off because they already saw him on camera.’
“I don’t have money to pay, go away, go away,” the man continued to protest, visibly affected. “We are all going to travel, I don’t have money to pay. And I am going to travel. So get off and travel. Who are you defending?” he added. The passengers continued to try to pay the passenger’s fare, after the subway was stopped.
Fall in the number of passengers using the subway
The two increases that brought the subway fare from $125 to $650 produced a double problem: not only was reduced by 14% the number of passengers using this means of transport, but they left the relationship with the bus fare at historic lows.
Since June, traveling on the subway costs $650. The rate is aligned with international values -although without significant progress on the other side of the increase, reinvestment-, Traveling on the subway has become more expensive and workers’ pockets are noticing it.
This reality is explained by the numbers. According to Luciano Fusarohead of the Argentine Association of Motor Transport Entrepreneurs (AAETA), Traveling by subway is 2.4 times more expensive than traveling by bus with the minimum ticket, currently at $270.
This difference is one of the most pronounced in historical terms, since the gap is “record”. According to Fusaro, the strongest disparity preceding the current one was seen in 2013, when it was 2.3 to 1. With the increase that the motor transport ticket will have on August 12, the ratio will fall to 1.75.
Source: Ambito
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