Sana'a.. Reducing bus fare and raising gasoline prices
English - Wednesday 13 April 2022 الساعة 10:01 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen:
The Houthi militia in Sanaa obligated bus drivers and internal transport buses to calculate the sum of 100 Yemeni riyals for the passenger's fare on internal transport lines on the streets of Sanaa.
The internal transport fare for buses rose to about 200 riyals due to the aggravation of the crises of oil derivatives and the increase in the price of a 20-liter can of gasoline to 16 thousand riyals, while its price exceeded 40 thousand riyals on the black market.
Taxi drivers believe that the new pricing of the oil company in Sana'a, set at 12,600 riyals for a 20-liter tank of gasoline, is still very high and does not achieve a measure of supply stability for taxi owners.
Ali al-Hamdani, a taxi bus driver in Sanaa, said: "They want to reduce the passenger's fare to 100 riyals and at the same time refuse to reduce the value of the petrol tank to an appropriate price," noting that the Sana'a Oil Company calculates its commission and delay fines, every small and large, and does not calculate the owners' losses. Buses and the damage caused to them by the crises of oil derivatives and their successive price doses.
In its meeting on Tuesday, April 12, the General Authority for Regulating Land Transport Affairs, which is run by the Houthi militia, stressed “the need for bus and bus drivers in all sorting of routes in the secretariat to comply with the prescribed official pricing (one hundred riyals) and to work on it from today,” when it claimed that It is in the "public interest and alleviate the suffering of citizens".
