The Government analyzes maintaining the freezing of public transport fares in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. If transport rates were updated based on the regulations, there would be an increase of up to 51.6%.
Instead, they could allocate more subsidies. "In principle there is no adjustment planned for May," they say in the Government, which must also avoid a new strike within two weeks. The path is narrow and each alternative has an enormous cost: social, if the increases are paid by the users; economic, if they are covered with subsidies in the midst of fiscal adjustment; and political, if Government does not recognize more expenses and forces workers and companies to prolong the salary conflict. The last update was in February and the increase in bus fares accumulated 419% so far this year. The private sector declares, they are going to lose $574 per ticket or $92,912.24 million per month, which is reflected in a "loss of quality of service, frequencies, security and renewal of units"