Transport: Increase Actually Goes up to 40%, According to ACIM

10 years, 8 months ago - July 31, 2013

If the government announced a 12% increase in the bus fare, the Consumers' Association of Mauritius (ACIM) observed that the increase reached 40% in some cases. The new rates take effect Thursday.

Jayen Chellum, general secretary of the PMAC, recalls that "the shorter the journey, the greater the increase." If we usually add Rs 2 to the current price list for the new tariff, a thorough analysis of the scale presented yesterday by the National Transport Authority, he argues, shows for children, rising sometimes reached 40%. Thus, the path Port-Louis/Bell-Village, rising Rs 2 for adults is 12% increase, but for children, it would be between 30 and 40%.

PMAC account details go these figures at a press conference tomorrow. Meanwhile, Jayen Chellum deplores the speed with which the rate increase was decided and maintains a balance sheet would have to reassure consumers by raising tariffs.

Text by Le Mauricien

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