Resistencia Public Transportation

by Lisa Cortes

I met with Luis Silvestri, the Secretary of Public Transportation in Resistencia. This department purchases buses and equipment, and plans and manages the bus routes.

The department has both local routes and intercity routes. They have seven bus lines that all go the main square in the center of town. A bus comes to the square every five minutes and it cost one peso (about 30 cents) for a ride, be it for two blocks or two miles.

Last year they had a ridership of 20 million, but they do not keep track of daily ridership. They estimate that ridership is 54,000 a day on the local buses, and 50,000 for the intercity buses.