تباين حول رفع تسعيرة المواصلات بغزة
Friday, 13 April 1435, corresponding to February 14 / m in February 2014 and the ascension of the news agency “Mina.”
Strip
In the parking lot downtown area arena in Gaza City argues driver Mohammed Totah with citizen Akram Najjar, who was intended area of the Legislative Council about the pricing of transport after the decision of the Ministry of Transport and Communications lifting.
told Totah Najjar that the fare has become shekels and half-shekel (42 cents) instead of one shekel (28 cents), but the citizen was furious and demanded to observe the conditions of the citizens, replied Totah “It Araina we?”
and raised the Ministry of Transport and Communications in the deposed government in Gaza prices fare internal transportation in the region and between the provinces into account the circumstances of the drivers who are forced to mobilize the Israeli fuel about two dollars per liter. The Gaza Strip depends on the period prior to fuel the Egyptian getaway cheap, and following the closure of the tunnels became the arrival of this fuel to Gaza, “the seventh of the impossible.”
And tried Totah explain the suffering of the drivers of the carpenter by rising fuel prices the Israeli and the high cost of spare parts and lack of passengers, but the carpenter insisted that pays NIS and one refused the driver, but the dialogue between the two continued. another problem says Najjar, “The problem is that drivers and citizens do not find a piece half-shekel, forcing the driver to give passenger grain chocolate or tissue paper and this is what I do not like, “and urged to find a solution to this problem by the competent authorities. He said Totah of the island, it has to give passengers “candy or cookies, or other value of half a shekel (14 cents) because they do not exist, and is embarrassed by it, but it does not have is this option in light of the lack of money from this category in the market.” complains Gaza markets of the decrease in the currency half-shekel supplied by Israel to Gaza, and turn some drivers respond to the half-shekel for passengers in the form of candy which is not like a lot of passengers, and open up the door of ridicule across social networking sites. According to the Ministry of Transport and Communications in Gaza, said more than twenty A driver affected by the closure of tunnels and high fuel prices, which the Israeli solution instead of the Egyptian getaway. A spokesman for the ministry Khalil Zayan the island revealed that his ministry tried to balance the difficult conditions of the drivers and the difficult conditions of the citizens as well, pointing out that the driver under the high cost of fuel is no longer able to work the way that it needs enough.
Mitigation actions
and said Zayan The amount of the half-shekel, which added some quotations internal transport does not meet the needs of drivers, so the ministry renewed the decision of the Council of Ministers campaign 50% reduction of the license fee vehicles for drivers, in addition to opening the door of installments remaining amount in two installments. pointed to The new rates adopted in approval on the price of fuel as well as the distance traveled by car to get to the place to be, and the fixed fee of license and maintenance of the vehicle, in addition to the intensity of the passengers on the lines. The Ministry of Transport is currently – according to Zayan – to communicate with the banks to provide the sector in the currency of the half-shekel Besides changes have occurred in the first list of the prices include reducing dependence on the currency so that does not happen any dispute between the driver and passenger.
Source: Al Jazeera
