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03-16-2011, 05:10 PM
Readers are advised to adjust their travel plans on Monday. The Bus Owners Union has announced that it would withdraw all its buses from the highway for 24 hours next Monday.
Union president Freddy Mendez said that they could no longer sustain the high operational costs. Mendez says he realizes that the solution to the problem cannot be just an increase in bus fares, "because the family budgets are already sufficiently hurt, so we are calling for a meeting with President Leonel Fernandez in order to present him with a series of demands from the sector. He said that these demands included eliminating all taxes on fuels used by companies that transport urban, intercity and tourism passengers, and to give them fair treatment or single tax on the import of buses for the transport service. He said that in the face of the situation that has come up, "we do not have any more solutions except selling our buses to the state. We cannot continue to yield to pressure to mistreat our clients who are by now fed up.
Diario Libre lists some of the companies that will remove their units from service on Monday: Caribe Tours, Transporte Espinal, Metro Servicios Turisticos, Terra Bus, FM Centro Bus, Servicios Turisticos del Atlantico, Expreso del Este, Perla Bus, Star Bus, Transporte Lin and AI Tours.
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Union president Freddy Mendez said that they could no longer sustain the high operational costs. Mendez says he realizes that the solution to the problem cannot be just an increase in bus fares, "because the family budgets are already sufficiently hurt, so we are calling for a meeting with President Leonel Fernandez in order to present him with a series of demands from the sector. He said that these demands included eliminating all taxes on fuels used by companies that transport urban, intercity and tourism passengers, and to give them fair treatment or single tax on the import of buses for the transport service. He said that in the face of the situation that has come up, "we do not have any more solutions except selling our buses to the state. We cannot continue to yield to pressure to mistreat our clients who are by now fed up.
Diario Libre lists some of the companies that will remove their units from service on Monday: Caribe Tours, Transporte Espinal, Metro Servicios Turisticos, Terra Bus, FM Centro Bus, Servicios Turisticos del Atlantico, Expreso del Este, Perla Bus, Star Bus, Transporte Lin and AI Tours.
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