Argentina’s Minister of Transport, Diego Giuliano, announced Friday that the planned 40 percent increase in public transport fares across the country will occur early next year instead of the initially planned date of this December.
«A 40 percent increase in public transport is planned for the beginning of 2023. It was to be in December, but it was taken to the beginning of 2023,» Giuliano specified in an interview to La Red radio station.
Ministry sources have pointed out to ‘Clarín’ that the increase, announced by the minister’s predecessor, Alexis Guerrera, will take place in January at the latest.
Guerrera explained that this increase will be applied to the «metropolitan transport area and all federal transport, which is regulated by the national government».
Minister Giuliano recalled that this increase was decided because «the current rate (…) has a very large distortion throughout the country», and that it is an increase that comes after prices remained frozen «for almost four years» due to the pandemic.
