Did Bus Fares Increase?

[MilHojas]

The Secretary of Transportation made the announcement on TARIFA DE COLECTIVOS.

Tarifas de transporte público AMBA 2024 a partir del 12 de agosto

### Tarifas para colectivos | Distancia | Con SUBE registrada | Tarifa Social | Con SUBE sin registrar | | :-----------------: | :-----------------------------: | :--------------: | :------------------------------: | | 0-3 km | $ 371,13 | $ 167,00 | $ 590,10 | | 3-6 km | $ 413,44 | $ 186,04 |...

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[jantango]

I took a bus tonight from CCK to Moreno & Alberti. The driver charged me the fare for 3-6 km which is $413.44. Drivers don't have any system that calculates the actual distance before charging the fare, so they just guess the distance and charge accordingly. I checked the Como Llego map for the number of blocks for the trip. I discovered it was 29 blocks. so I should have been charged $371,13. It's not a big difference. The fare is still very inexpensive for those of us who live on dollars. But the transportation secretary sets new fares for the bus companies to charge without actually using the established fares. I call it a guessing game.

I am posting this for anyone who is interested in comparing the distance and fare to the new schedule. If you take the same bus every day to the same destination, you should be charged the same fare by every bus driver. That isn't always the case after 25 years of riding the buses in BA.

When spring weather finally arrives in November, I'll be walking to and from concerts.

 

[elhombresinnombre]

I took a bus tonight from CCK to Moreno & Alberti. The driver charged me the fare for 3-6 km which is $413.44. Drivers don't have any system that calculates the actual distance before charging the fare, so they just guess the distance and charge accordingly. I checked the Como Llego map for the number of blocks for the trip. I discovered it was 29 blocks. so I should have been charged $371,13. It's not a big difference. The fare is still very inexpensive for those of us who live on dollars. But the transportation secretary sets new fares for the bus companies to charge without actually using the established fares. I call it a guessing game.

I am posting this for anyone who is interested in comparing the distance and fare to the new schedule. If you take the same bus every day to the same destination, you should be charged the same fare by every bus driver. That isn't always the case after 25 years of riding the buses in BA.

When spring weather finally arrives in November, I'll be walking to and from concerts.

It would be interesting to understand the mechanism the bus companies use for calculating distance and whether or not the driver just sticks their finger in the air to work out which way the wind is blowing and takes a guess.

I must have way too much time on my hands. Fascinated by your experience I've been playing with maps. One of the possible bus routes is indeed 29 blocks but have you noticed that all the city blocks are different sizes? If you measure the blocks against the scale on Como Llego many of them are 20-50% bigger than 100m and the Como Llego suggested distance of over 3.5km seems believable. What doesn't seem believable is that using the grid on Google Maps seems about the same yet Google seems to think the distance is over 7km. I've long ago given up trusting Google's answers for anything.