Along with a dozen social organizations, each representative of many others that have been organized in terms of achieving a passenger service worthy, comfortable, economic and state, the Users' Committee presented its ideas-raised on the Decalogue, and requested User Senator Frei more willing to summon the will to achieve the state-owned passenger transport.
The meeting was attended by the coordinator of social organizations in the north, which includes Til-Til, Colina Lampa, social leaders, the Council of Users of Cerro Navia, the movement Here the People, who agreed on the need for a state enterprise.
coordinator for the north, is vital to end the monopoly of transport between the towns of Lampa, Hill, Til-Til and to end the isolation that cause insufficient Conchalí tours, Independence, Quilicura or Huechuraba.
In general, participants realized the hardship that has resulted in the implementation of private transport system and the negative effects that result in the deterioration of the quality of life of users.
Users Committee placed emphasis on the real road to a state enterprise, to place in the middle of planning social welfare over profits to aspiring private companies. Besides pointing out the ideas of the Decalogue, Sergio Sepulveda, regional coordinator, suggested that $ 290 million that will eventually be injected to the private system, serve, rather, a state-owned capital. With that money ($ 159,500,000,000, one hundred fifty nine thousand five hundred million pesos) is possible to buy a fleet of 5,000 buses, with a remaining sufficient for the gradual incorporation of the technology. The Metro realizes that it is possible to self-finance, and even generate profits, with a state enterprise, he said.
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