Upon the resumption of the subway service after a ten-day hiatus, Deputy Mayor for Buenos Aires City María Eugenia Vidal said that “the reasonable thing to do now is to resolve the handover” of the subway lines “through talks” while suggesting possible solutions to the rift.
“If we want the public to travel safely and in adequate conditions, why don’t we all sit down and arrange it,” Vidal said also accusing the national government of “closing doors, not reply and aggravating City Mayor Mauricio Macri.”
Vidal made the statements today in a radio interview when she also said that the City could “take responsibility of part of the investments into infrastructural works that haven’t been done or completed, which are essential to the security of passengers, but in order to do so they’d need authorisation and to go into debt.”
Although suggestions have arisen from the city government official and from the mayor himself, the rift with the national government continues.
“Unfortunately, until now talks have been impossible. Another way to go about it is for the Judiciary to take hold, where causes have been initiated.
“Even still, talks are stuck and it’s endangering the public,” Vidal concluded.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald