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STAR raises the price of the passage and follows the crisis of the transport
 SANTIAGO OF CUBA, May 16 (Virgilio Delat/APLO) the Association of Transport by Omnibus (STAR) has increased considerably the price of the passage. The Santiago route - Havana of 55,00 Pesos Cubano raised 145,00 pesos MN. The section between Santiago of Cuba and Bayamo of 8,00 pesos raised the 24,00 and sections, of From Soria Palm to Holguín from 5,50 to 29.00 and Camaguey of 11,50 to 52.00 pesos.
A civil servant of the Company of Omnibus consulted to informed us to the respect that the rise of the prices had to the entrance of new the omnibus Chinese Yutong in good condition, but also was a measurement to resist the corruption and the bribe to the employees and civil servants of the organization in the illegal sale of passages.
The crisis of the transport, in spite of the putting in good condition of new the omnibus Chinese continues, around 20% of new the omnibus they have been appointed to the transportation of the social workers and another governmental personnel.
Enamored Misael, First Secretary of the Communist Party in Santiago of Cuba stood out publicly that 90% of the transportation of passengers in the province are in the hands of deprived porteadores, realized by cars thrown by horses, tricycles of human impulsion, motorcycles and trucks.
Nevertheless, which did not honor the secretary of the party is the conditions and the damages that cause the same, the horses flood the dung streets and urine. Throughout all the Av. Freedom in From Soria Palm, via of circulation of the cars, it has been I prohibit expendio of products foods by the sanitary authorities, by possible contamination with the bacterium that produces the encephalitis corner and the trucks by their evil been technician are the frequent cause of tragic accidents.
Celio René Cobas reports, that in the city Santiago head of Cuba, day 15 of May to the 7:00 A.M. 26 only circulated omnibus to cover the 86 existing routes. This has caused that restitutes state the inspector bodies met like “the yellows” with control posts in several points of the city to force the state cars to transport passengers in their routes. It adds Cobas that either the Chinese locomotives have not been able to enter service for want of technical capability of the railway lines.
Fidel Castro in a public intervention recognized the crisis of the transport in Santiago of Cuba and authorized the delivery of 30 taxis, but its enter service has not solved in anything the situation, a city of more than 450 thousand inhabitants and one great floating population. |