Falling sales and increase Metrobus strainer into the underground capital.
The Madrid metro users have fulfilled their threats. Almost four months after the entry into force of the controversial rate hikes (for which the travel voucher climbed 7.40 10 EUR 9), the number of those who are cast in the suburban "has grown by 30%" and the sale Metrobus has fallen by 7%, according to sources confirmed to 20 minutes of the company, who preferred to remain anonymous. The number of those who slip "has grown by 30%" and the sale of Metrobus has fallen by 7%
The campaign promoted by social networks to enter without paying in the underground (which amounted to 602 members this Wednesday after starting with 220 supporters) has borne fruit. Not only because the 100 inspectors working at the company asking banknotes piece lobbies and platforms (their number has doubled since 2005), but because they do now accompanied by two security guards (previously only came with one), "because the aggressiveness of the passengers also has skyrocketed, "reported.
And even the guards to accompany inspectors that are daily with the reality that, for every 12 people who are stopped for different reasons, at least half have no ticket, "more than before," she clarified .
Problems in Circular
The hottest points of the network are located at present in the L3 and L6, as confirmed from Alternative Trade Union (union vigilantes). In the first there are stations that have become authentic "sieve," as in the case of Legazpi and Lavapies, in addition to Plaza de Espana. In the L6 (the Circular) said the volume of people entering without paying at the pump Usera, Elliptical and Opa?el Plaza. Maintaining the traditional Colanders Ciudad Universitaria (L6), Argueelles (L4) and the Principe Pio exchanger
The same thing where you change stations and train fare: Estadio Olimpico (L7), Puerta de Arganda (L9) and Three Olives (L10). And in the L1, the problem is centralized in Tirso de Molina (by the presence, point out the guards, anti groups of pickpockets). Alongside these are preserved traditional Colanders Ciudad Universitaria (L6), Argueelles (L4) and the Principe Pio exchanger, among others.
The profile of those who slip diary nuance from the Federation of Metro de UGT, are "unemployed,The_north_window_of_ther, immigrants and youth with precarious jobs hit by the crisis." They prefer to risk having to pay the fine (20 euros if paid at the time) to buy the ticket.
That if, knowing that the inspectors should make every effort to track down offenders because each fine levied in the act, they are left with three euros. Also, if the sanction is not paid within five days may rise to over 80.
13,000 mugs a day in Barcelona
"Avoiding factor" is the argument that gives the Metropolitan company for not supplying the data for fraud in its facilities, which are made 2.5 million trips daily. What if the public is that in the metro Barcelona (much smaller than the capital, has 155 stations, compared to 294 here) slip to 13,000 people daily. In Madrid, the security guards have already detected ",Eibar_EB_held_tomorrow_inn;meeting" to sneak in without paying.
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