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New fees for transportation in Havana
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Starting this Monday, the new prices set for transportation services for hospitals, funeral homes and free of the Cubataxi company will begin to apply, reported Maribel Poulot Bravo, provincial director of Transportation in Havana.

For hospitals and funeral homes, the rate will be 1.25 pesos per passenger, each kilometer, and 2.00 pesos per kilometer per passenger, in the free service mode, he said during his speech this Friday in the Hola Habana program.

In the case of transportation for hemodialysis patients, the cost-free trip for the client was reiterated, as this is an expense assumed entirely by the Ministry of Public Health.

Regarding the maximum prices that private carriers can charge, he explained that the indication is to multiply the previous rates by 1.5, in such a way that the trip that previously cost 10 pesos now costs 15 and so on.

Havana-Guanabo was the only section that was approved for a higher increase: from 25 pesos to 30 pesos, as it is longer than the rest and with little influx outside the beach season.

The so-called gazelles and the road taxis in cooperatives are maintained with the rates approved before the Ordinance; 5.00 pesos per section and supply and demand after 9:00 p.m., for the first ones, and in the case of cooperatives, 5.00 pesos throughout the route.

In the small tranches traditionally charged at 5.00 pesos, it was raised to 7.50 and rounded to 10, so we work with the boards of the administration at different levels so that they are able to regulate in their demarcations the prices of, for example, horse-drawn carriages.

Likewise, the directive reported that the new rates set for requalification, parking, technical review and punching services are being reviewed, although the possibility of generating profits was verified, through a study of cost per kilometer and passenger .

Regarding the payment of two pesos per passage in public transportation, the official acknowledged that it is very complicated for both the driver and the population, and therefore proposals are being analyzed – together with the Ministry of Transportation and the National Bank – to find alternatives that make the process viable.

He recalled that only officers of the National Revolutionary Police, soldiers in compliance with Active Military Service – both in full uniform – and children up to five years of age are exempt from paying the cost. Students of all schools dressed in uniform pay 50 percent and the possibility of establishing an identification document is being studied for those who, when boarding the bus, are dressed, for example, in physical education clothes, said Poulot Bravo.

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