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A signed agreement yesterday passed the 5 of the evening among the Mayoralty of Bogota and Apetrans's union, which groups the owners of the buses in the city, allowed to raise the historical and violent unemployment of public transport that confronted the capital of the country during the last four days. (TO SEE INFOGRAFÍA: WHAT DOES MEAN THE REVOLCÓN OF THE SITP THAT WILL START NEXT YEAR? - THE EXPENSES THAT THE OWNER OF A BUS HAS IN AVERAGE IN BOGOTA)

Last night, thousands of buses returned to roll about the streets and in several points of access to the north of the city, as the career 30 and the Autonorte, big trancones appeared.
On the unemployment having got up, the official colleges will return today to classes and will return the restriction of the"pico y placa" for the particular cars (9, 0, 1 and 2).

What was what one resolved? The document signed between the parts establishes that the owners of the buses will have a minimal monthly profit of 18 per cent per year in the Integrated System of Public Transport, which starts next year and which 13 zones will be awarded next July 2.
Before the unemployment beginning, the financial model created by the District was establishing earnings of 10 per cent per year, which indicates that there was a grant of 8 per cent to the carriers in the middle of the unemployment, almost the double.

Who will assume this rise? Will move the user in the tariff that will pay for using, with an alone tiquete, the network of buses and TransMilenio? Though the mayor Samuel Moreno denied incisively last night that the user should turn out to be harmed with an unplayable tariff in the Sitp, experts consulted already speak about 125 billion weight to the year that - after the modifications given in the unemployment - someone will have to manage to put in order that the system is sustainable.

On the topic, the secretary of Mobility, Fernando Alvarez, answered last night that " this cost will be moved to the earnings or to the so called rate of return that there will have the businessmen who gain the managing themselves of each one of 13 zones of the transport ".

Yesterday several interested businessmen proved to be "worried" by this decision.

The second point resolved between Apetrans and the District has to see with the value that will be paid for the buses that will go out of the system.
The Mayoralty arranged a rise of 5 per cent in the table of values, but only for buses models 2001 2010.

Si el pasajero sólo necesita utilizar TransMilenio seguirá pagando 1.600 pesos, según el esquema que tiene ya en sus manos la Administración.

In spite of that in the agreement Apetrans promised not to do any more unemployment’s, it is necessary to see if they fulfill their word in moments in which the Sitp advances without reverse for the Mayoralty and when the District enlists a new licitation in which the collection of the money the drivers would not do it, but a signature recaudadora, foreign to the carriers.

How much they will cost the passages a person pays 1.600 “pesos” for TransMilenio's tiquet and 1.300 “pesos” for moving in a traditional bus in Bogota. It is to say that if this citizen uses both manners of transport to be able to come up to their work or up to their housing, they spends in whole 2.900 “pesos”.

But it is supposed that from next year the things are going to change with the new Integrated System of Public Transport (Sitp), which will start the Major Mayoralty.

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