2023-05-17 17:30:29
Starting today, Wednesday May 17, the interurban passenger transport company Ko Ko has the authorization of the Executive Power of Río Negro to increase the price of the ticket once again, in the provincial territory.
Official sources from the Río Negro Transportation Secretariat confirmed to RIO NEGRO that today the Resolution No. 271/2023 of the Ministry of Public Works and Services of the Province in which the increase is approved.
The rise will be 15% in all the sections corresponding to the “all the provincial lines of – 60 kilometers between headwaters”, they explainedwhich for the moment excludes transfers to the city of Neuquén as it is another jurisdiction.
Besidesa provincial minimum ticket of $149.50 is instituted -first 10 kilometers- y the longest stretch in the Alto Valle will cost 900 pesos approximately, which is the trip between Chichinales and Cipolletti, and vice versa.
Nowthe company must make the increase public in the next 48 hours, as a prior step to be able to apply it. The firm must obligatorily publish the new tariff in visible places, within the groups, in ticket offices and related places, for the effective communication of the users.
Los Rate tables approved by the Secretary of Transportation will be applicable once the 48 hours of publication have expired. for de side of the company.
RIO NEGRO consulted in the ticket offices of the card recharge company but the new prices have not yet been published. The information has not yet been published since so far there is no signage.
Ko Ko increase: 36% in a quarter
Las ministerial resolutions that authorized rate increases this year were two during 2023, but the increases so far were three with this one that they just approved. The increases reach a cumulative rate of 36% in three months (February to May).
The The first resolution was last February, taking December 2022 as the analysis period. At that time, the update for the provincial lines was 10% as of February 15 and 11% as of March 1, with a minimum ticket of $130.
It should be remembered thate «Ko Ko» had announced an increase at the beginning of the year that was without authorization, but finally in February, the Province ordered a staggered rise.
From the Province, they indicated that when the first increase was authorized in 2023, the parties understood that it would be necessary to discuss an increase new after a few months and for this reason it was granted in a “staged” manner.
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