Industry coordinator and Transport in the Government of the Cuban capital, José Conesa González, informed on Wednesday that Only 294 of the 894 buses owned by the state-owned Provincial Transport Company of Havana are active, for 34% availabilitypublished the newspaper Havana Tribune.
With this Black panorama for the mobility of Cubans in HavanaThe official said that they hope to recover six teams out of the 560 that are paralyzed in the first fortnight of this month of July.
These buses and another 80 that covered school transportation will be incorporated into the routes with the highest demand during the summer months, in an attempt by the authorities to appease the transportation odyssey, a problem that not only affects Havanans, but the population of the entire island.
According to Conesa González, the service to the Playas del Este, one of the few recreational options that Cubans in the capital have, will be reinforced with 30 school busesand from this weekend the transfer of passengers to that destination will be reactivated, which in these months usually leaves images of crowded vehicles.
At the meeting it was also learned that access by sea to the municipality of Regla will continue to be suspended during the month of July, due to the fact that the boats are out of service. Currently, only four buses currently fulfill the function of replacing this service to residents in the territory.
Without security and precise dates, the official said that “the maritime service is expected to be partially reactivated in the month of August”, but “with the launch of a launch”.
“At the moment the design of routes for electric tricycles that will enter the country at the end of July“said Conesa González, without offering further details of this transportation option.
The Minister of Transportation of Cuba, Eduardo Rodríguez Dávila, said recently that the sector requires income of freely convertible currency to guarantee fuel, spare parts and other logistical elements. For the lack of this income, he blamed, as the regime usually does to explain all the problems that hit Cubans, the US embargo, as well as the Covid-19 pandemic and the world economic crisis.
The main transport bases in Cuba work almost without spare parts, and the effect is in a coefficient of technical availability below 50%, published the official journal Granma.
The numbers are a quantitative sign of the drama of Cubans to be able to transport themselves from one point to another, both within cities and at an interprovincial level.
Luis Ladrón de Guevara, director of Passenger Transportation for MITRANS, said that this service “is facing one of the most complex moments in recent years.”
In 2022, 1,008 million passengers were transported in Cuba, a figure well below that registered in 2017 when, also with enormous difficulties, 2,275 million was reached.
Thus, the authorities consider, according to the official newspaper Granma, “generalize electric tricycle routes; incorporate low-tourist minibuses to the route services in Havana and Santiago de Cuba; achieve greater use of bicycles as a transport alternative; recover the transportation network for the intentional support with state vehicles for public passenger transportation; achieve a greater confrontation with price violations and illegal carriers”.
FUENTE: diariodecuba.com
