Cubans forced to walk through the Havana Bay tunnel after a P11 breaks

Dozens of people were forced to walk inside the Havana Bay tunnel after a P11 broke down as it was crossing the capital's important artery.

A video broadcast on social networks by the activist Silverio Portal, who was a direct witness of the incident, showed the moment in which the passengers of the articulated bus - which runs between Alamar and El Vedado - were walking in a disciplined manner along one of the paths of the tunnel. , while vehicles were circulating on the other.

As seen in the images, the people were apparently walking in the direction of Havana, while the cars were moving in the direction of Alamar.

Silverio Portal noted that it is inevitable that events like this happen due to the tremendous overexploitation to which buses on the island are subjected.

“Poor people, my God, look how we Cubans have a hard time doing everything,” commented a woman in one of the forums where the video has been published in the last few hours.

Others have lamented the conformity and resignation that prevails among those who see no other option than to face setbacks such as these.

“And everyone is quiet. That is why Cuba will be worse, for not loving us or giving us our place”; “But everyone is like little lambs and quiet. The thing is that we are already used to it, because it is what we deserve,” wrote two Internet users following that point of view.

As of the closing of this note, there are no other details about the event, which has become further evidence of the serious crisis that afflicts public transportation in Cuba, especially in the capital.

In recent days during a review by the Ministry of Transportation (MITRANS), Yunier de la Rosa Hernández, general director of Transportation of Havana, described the current scenario as “complex.”

The manager stated thatCurrently only 252 buses circulate in the capital, a figure even lower than the number of vehicles that remain stopped: 309.

De la Rosa Hernández explained that at the stops in Havana people can spend up to three or four hours waiting for transportation, depending on whether the route is the main or feeder route, for which sometimes they only have one bus in operation.

Transportation is a sector that is affected not only by the economic crisis, but also by internal restrictions and the inefficiency of the state sector.

"We would like more private transporters to join, butWe will not allow absurd prices to be applied", recently declared Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, in a meeting with officials of the Ministry of Transportation from all over the country.

In response to this context, President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez urged the transportation sector to seek a turning point, insisting on the need to overcome internal obstacles because fuel shortages in the country will persist.