Friday, August 8, 2014

Bus Fare Increases Today

Forty of the current bus routes average only 200 passengers a day.
Forty of the current bus routes average only 200 passengers a day.
Beginning today the fare to ride one of the city’s buses without air conditioning will be seven pesos, up from 6.5 pesos.
Jóse Carlos Osuna Osuna, President of the Alliance of Mazatlan’s buses, said an option now facing the association is whether to air condition all of the city’s buses. He pointed that the projections show that such an improvement would increase ridership from 400 to 600 passengers per day in 40 different routes.
He noted that such a change would require a significant investment. In addition to the cost of the air conditioning system, diesel fuel consumption would increase 15 to 29 liters per day.
Osuna pointed that 40 of their current bus routes average only 200 passengers a day, which requires those routes to be subsidized by other profitable routes.
Tomorrow authorities are to discuss whether the bus fare for existing air conditioned buses should be increased.

(from El Debate)

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