The crisis in public transportation in Santiago de Cuba, evidenced by large concentrations of people at stops at any time of the dayforced the local government to take a desperate measure: force state company drivers to transport the population during times of greatest demand.
Noralquis Guerra Guevara, director of the Terminals and Alternative Media Business Unit of Santiago de Cuba, reported that there are 110 units in the territory participating in “solidarity transportation” with their vehicles, the official newspaper reported Sierra Maestra.
However, the directive warned that of the total number of entities that could alleviate the crisis with their vehicles, “3% have not joined this activity for deficit in the vehicle fleet that they have at their disposal“, another irrefutable example of the precariousness of the transportation in the province.
Furthermore, he denounced that not all drivers participate in “solidarity transportation,” pointing out that some do not stop at the collection points.
He pointed out that the companies that are linked lend their vehicles during the hours of 6:30 am to 8:30 am and in the afternoon from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm, which coincides with the times where the highest quality is evident. transportation crisis in Santiago de Cuba.
Although the board advocated because “solidarity transportation“is done in a manner”aware”, he threatened the drivers with the placement of inspectors at the points of greatest concentration of people.
According to the official newspaper, at each point of “solidarity transportation“must be present”a frame” Manager “organize and control”.
Rogelio Samada Rubio, provincial deputy director of transportation in Santiago de Cuba, guided discuss the topic of “solidarity transportation” in the morning of state entities. According to him, this is the way to get drivers to cooperate consciously.
Due to the regime’s inability to solve the transportation crisis in Santiago de Cuba, the official admitted that they have had to go to the rented buses.
Samada acknowledged that the lack of fuel aggravates mobility problems, pointing out that some vehicles, even if they are operational, cannot go out on the street due to fuel shortages.
The manager recalled that resolution 435 of 2002, of the Ministry of Transportation, indicates that state vehicles, on their return journey, are obliged to support transportation.
Despite the existence of this legal instrumentof the mobilization of “paintings” and inspectors at the points of “solidarity transportation”, Samada admitted that you still see drivers on the streets who drive through the streets without carrying any passengers, an example of the inefficient regime management.
“In the event of non-compliance, a daily analysis and a weekly summary is carried out with the vice-governor of all drivers who have a negative impact and measures are applied, which can constitute up to the definitive separation of the driver who repeatedly fails to comply with this,” he pointed out.
However, the transportation problem is repeated in all cities in the country.
In Cuba, mobility through public transportation is critical and to prove it you only have to look at the numbers of the buses that Currently circulating in the country’s capital: 252 teams According to official figures, a number below the Number of buses that remain stopped: 309.
In Cuba, mobility through public transportation is critical and to prove it you only have to look at the numbers of the buses that Currently, 252 teams are circulating in the country’s capital., According to official figures, a number below the number of buses that remain stopped: 309.
This was revealed last March during a review by the Ministry of Transportation (Mitrans), where Yunier de la Rosa Hernandezgeneral director of Transportation of Havana, He described the scenario that exists in that territory as “complex”.
In May, the Cuban Minister of Transportation, Eduardo Rodríguez Dávilahe acknowledged terrible service offered by the government to those who must move to the Isle of Youth.
In a text shared on his Facebook profile, Rodríguez Dávila admitted that the process is extremely uncomfortable and cumbersome, from purchasing the ticket to arrival.
