Citizens are reporting that starting Saturday. January 3, 2015, they are being charged 2 more pesos over the transportation fare. Nayarit transit authorities informed that they had not authorized such increase and are encouraging people to report to transit authorities if they are asked to pay more.
This past Friday, the public transportation drivers from Bahia de Banderas, took upon themselves to inform their clients that starting Saturday, Jan. 3, they will have to pay two more pesos over the usual fare. Such announcement was not welcome, reason why they came to NoticiasPV to denounce this fact. Regular fare is seven pesos, but now they will have to pay nine.
We interviewed Jose Flores, transit delegate, on this matter and he informed us that such increase has not been authorized, at least up to this day, by Nayarit transit authorities; for this reason he encourages the users of public transportation to tell transit police, or to go to their office which is located in Mezcales on highway 200 a block away from the cruise on the way to Bucerias, to place a complain on this matter.
According to those living in La Cruz de Huanacaxtle and working in Puerto Vallarta, or vice versa, they were paying eighteen pesos, now they have to pay twenty. Twenty pesos one way and twenty back adds up to 40 pesos that they have to spend daily just in transportation. In one week they will spend two hundred forty pesos. The minimum wage, adding the raise gotten in 2015, is only 70.10 pesos a day; which means that transportation in Bahia de Banderas, in relation the actual minimum wage, is of about 57 %. We are talking about a very expensive public transportation.
The high cost of transportation in this municipality, will leave the majority of families staying home, without being able to enjoy the beach and other entertainments. On the other hand, the transportation owners are in need to raise fares, given the high cost of fuel and spare parts.
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