Free Ride if SUBE Machine Doesn’t Work
If the fare machine is not working, the passengers will travel free. According to Resolution 811 published yesterday in the official bulletin of the National Commission of the Regulation of...
View ArticleWorkers at Tube Line B Refuse To Top-Up SUBE Card
Workers at tube line B are protesting against the equipment provided to top up SUBE and Monedero cards by refusing to load them. They are complaining that the keyboards are not “adequate” and that they...
View ArticleGovernment Warns of No Subsidy for Passengers Without SUBE
The Argentine government released an ad campaign informing that after 10 February bus passengers who do not pay for their tickets with a SUBE card will not get subsidised. Official authorities have not...
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Weekly News Roundup, January 27th.
It’s Friday again! And since most of you are still partying around the world and don’t really care about what happens here, there’s no point in me making some snarky (yet extremely profound) remark...
View ArticleSUBE deadline extended to 2nd March
Transport Secretary Juan Schiavi announced today that the deadline to acquire the new SUBE card has been extended to 2nd March. As a result of delays in registration from waves of latecomers, the...
View ArticleChanges to SUBE Card Announced
On a press conference this morning, minister of the interior and transportation Florencio Randazzo announced a series of changes that will be introduced to the use of SUBE, the card used to pay for...
View ArticleBus Crash Caused by ‘Fare Dispute’ Leaves 30 Wounded
At least 30 people were wounded this morning after a 109 bus crashed into a building on the corner of Paraguay and Agüero in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Palermo around 8.00am. Although there were...
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More Problems on Sarmiento Line as Train Derails at Once Station
The derailed train on the Sarmiento line (photo: José Casal/Télam/lz) This morning a diesel train on the Sarmiento line suffered technical problems when changing lanes at Once station, leading to a...
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Government Extends Use of SUBE Card
SUBE card (photo: Wikipedia) The use of the SUBE electronic card system, implemented by the national government in 2009, will be extended to include payment at highway tolls and for the purchase of low...
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City Government to Launch Multifunctional Payment Card
Mauricio Macri (photo courtesy of Mauricio Macri flickr page) The Buenos Aires government is planning to launch a new multifunctional card that will allow citizens to pay for subte journeys, purchase...
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Argentina News Roundup: 15th January 2014
Head of Sedronar Juan Carlos Molina (photo: Fernando Gens/Télam/jcp) Irregularities in Sedronar: The new head of Sedronar (Secretariat for Prevention of Drug Addiction and Fight Against Drug...
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Argentina News Roundup: 30th January 2014
Foreign Ministers Héctor Timerman and Luis Alberto Figueiredo sign Plan Condor agreement at Celac summit in Cuba (photo: casarosada.gov.ar) Accord Signed with Brazil over Plan Condor Files: Foreign...
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