The emecista deputy Laura Ballesteros delivered a letter to the mobility secretariat to demand that they put a stop to the rise in the public transportation fare concessioned to the population of CDMX and the metropolitan area.
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“Thirty million trips move here a day. That is the proportion that Mexico City has and it is truly inexplicable, and above all unfair, that it is the ordinary population who has to pay for the crisis out of their own pockets who has experienced public transportation in the city for years. They have been insisted on for almost a decade,” he warned.
He expressed that the government of Mexico City must learn to make social policy and social programs for public transportation.
Recriminates increase in the CDMX transportation rate
“Administration after administration chooses to charge the people, and this is not only unacceptable, it is unsustainable, people no longer have the money to continue paying for the government’s inefficiency. Just to give us an idea, in Mexico City the people, More or less, he is investing between twenty and twenty-five percent of his monthly salary in public transportation,” he noted.
He highlighted that The government has to invest 100 billion pesosthis is the investment deficit in public transportation in Mexico City, which is directly impacting the crisis in operation, the crisis in maintenance and the crisis in technological and unit expansion.
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“These 100 billion pesos have to come again in the reactivation of the metropolitan fund and the capital fund, two funds that They were disappeared by Morena from the Obradoratotwo funds that at the time operated up to thirty billion pesos, and from which they invested directly in the maintenance of public transportation in Mexico City,” he said.