The Minister of Transportation of the province of Buenos Aires, Jorge D’Onofrioannounced Thursday that The Metropol concession will come to an end due to the continuation of the employer lockout that began last Tuesday. The company manages 23 bus lines that connect the Federal Capital with different districts of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA), including La Plata through line 195, known as Costera.
“We are up to date, we pay for a service, if the company does not comply we will call for tenders so that other companies comply”said the provincial official.
Faced with a new day of the employer lockout of the Metropol firm, The Ministry of Transportation of the province of Buenos Aires announced the start of the procedures for the removal of the concession of the public passenger service on Buenos Aires soil. “The negotiating stage is over,” D’Onofrio declared.
“We have been trying to talk for a while, to bring positions closer. Now it has taken another volume, it would be the third day of this lockout. We are up to date, we pay for a service, if the company does not comply, we will call for tenders so that other companies can do so. comply,” added the official, while the protest by the firm that demands the payment of an alleged debt in terms of subsidies and compensation continues.
“I am going to continue advancing in the concession expiration process and tender them again. I need a million Buenos Aires residents who get into the cars of this company to have their service”said the minister. And he settled: “You don’t screw around with the Province, either they provide the service or we execute the concession. Today we are going to be intimidating it and this week we are going to take out the resolutions so that it becomes a reality.”
He also advanced that the Buenos Aires portfolio instructed the affected municipalities to advance along the same lines. It should be noted that Metropol’s decision affects one million residents of the province of Buenos Aires who daily use the firm’s services.
