This morning the La Plata Bus Terminal shows the same postcard from two days ago: long lines at the docks because the company La Nueva Metropol does not take buses out into the street due to a conflict with the National Government regarding the payment of compensation remains unchanged. That is why complications continue for thousands of passengers who use their services to districts in the southern suburbs and the federal capital.
As reported by EL DIA, while chaos once again takes over the Bus Terminal this Thursday and users seek alternatives for these trips, the Provincial Government announced yesterday that the proceedings began with the most severe sanction, such as the withdrawal of the concession of lines.
This measure does not reach the services used by the people of La Plata. It has to do, as reported by the Ministry of Transportation of the Province, with an escalation of the conflict that led the firm to extend the “lock out” to the 30 lines that it operates throughout the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA). . Within that list, are those that remain in the orbit of the Province.
That, unlike the 195, which connects La Plata with CABA and is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Transportation of the Nation.
On Tuesday, the National Commission for Transport Regulation, the Nation’s control body that depends on the Transport portfolio, had expressed itself in a similar sense. It was warned then that the variety of sanctions will depend on the extent of the stoppage in the company. The concession could fall if it is extended for five consecutive days or ten alternate days in the year.
The truth is that there are no points of rapprochement on the horizon in the crisis. In this way, those who move on the route between La Plata and Buenos Aires, continue to opt today for the other company that operates the section, Misión Buenos Aires, also based at the Terminal, but different arrival points in the federal capital ( Center, Eleven).
In this context, others choose to go to the 1 and 44 train station, where the number of passengers looking for another way to reach their destination also grew.
The New Metropol, requests the payment of a millionaire figure that the State would be owing to it in terms of subsidies. He even maintains that he has a favorable court ruling. The Government denies this debt and maintains that the case is pending.
