Subsidy funds that the national administration provides to bus and train companies must continue “because 80 percent of the users of these services choose them to commute to their workplaces, study sites, or to attend hospitals,” the under-secretary of administrative management and transport Gerardo Otero said today.
«It is absolutely fair as an income policy that the ordinary citizen has a minor expense in transport. “Any government should maintain this policy,” he added in statements to Télam official news agency and Radio 10 station.
He explained that in Buenos Aires city and Greater Buenos Aires areas, people travelling within the city pay 3 pesos for a ticket while the real cost to cover that service reaches 10 pesos.
«That difference of 7 pesos is paid by the State to the companies, representing an annual saving of 40,000 pesos for a four-member family, which uses public transport trice a day during 26 days a month,” he stressed.
“Outside the metropolitan area, where the ticket price is higher, the annual saving for a household “may climb to 60,000 pesos,” Otero said.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald