Mendotran: with opposition support, they marched against the changes of routes

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At first it was just a handful of self-convened people and grouped into small islands of conversation, with the passing of minutes they became hundreds, and after half an hour the protesters already exceeded a thousand people.

This small crowd, which also traveled through the main avenues of the city, made its voice of discontent against the public transport system heard.

The street Patricias Mendocinas, in front of the Provincial Legislature, was the point chosen by the protesters who were adhering from the social networks, in pages like "No al Mendotran" or other similar ones. This was the first protest of 2019, the first against the Mendotran.

About the closing of the day, at the time of deconcentration a voice (by a megaphone) invited a new march for tomorrow at 20, in the same place. Up until that moment, without main speakers, the chants and honks of repudiation were the protagonists.

Some recognizable characters such as Sebastián Henríquez (driver of the Sute) or Mario Vadillo (under the sign of a subsidiary of Protectora) accompanied the march as did the white flags of the Clasista and Combativa Current and the Red Workers Party, which took the vanguard when the caravan -from almost three blocks- started its journey towards Las Heras Avenue.

The people said it
Gabriel (36) held a poster printed on a computer that read: "They rule for entrepreneurs."

This employee commented: "It was time for people to react to what happens to them. They can not put their hand in your pocket as well, because the 63% increase in the ticket is a robbery. "

Meanwhile, minutes before the 18, in parallel the gratuity of the collective ticket for a week was communicated. The landscape of the square was not so usual, the public consulting cellular routes and hurrying the step on the sidewalk of the square looking to return to their homes, taxis-on the other hand- to the hunt for disgruntled passengers or, tired of waiting, they decided to return at any cost.

Nancy (16), participated in the first applause. "I do not take the microphone, because I live near the school, but I'm here for solidarity. For the one who has to get up, at 5 in the morning, to go to work. " His harangue, also encouraged occasional motorists to support with a horn.

"No to the rate," read the posters of Transport Users Network of Mendoza (Rutmen), a neighborhood association formed by users of Greater Mendoza. Entity that also collects signatures seeking to elevate its claim of "flexibility" in the system.

Pedro Basile and Lidia Quintana integrate Rutmen, they explain: "people are angry because they do not understand the changes in transport, many do not have access to the search in electronic media and feel excluded. We went to a checkpoint and they told us that the government delivered some paper books with the printed routes, but they did not reach ".

The people making tin jars, which at times reminded us of the cacerolazos of another time, advanced in its march of 22 blocks.

Mobilization along 22 blocks
From 19, a thousand people walked through 22 blocks of the City. The column, which advanced first through Patricias Mendocinas to the north, drew a rectangle by joining Avenida Las Heras, Avenida San Martín, Avenida Colón, and ascending through Patricias to close the trip at the starting point.

Some people joined during the journey of the march, another as Milagros (20 years) was determined to participate after the experience she had in the morning while trying to reach the Lagomaggiore Hospital. "I liked the other system," he says. Everyone has their reasons, to the beat of the drums of percussion, a group of sicus gave another depth to the voices of the claim.