Vandalism in Havana: Another bus is stoned

It has happened again: another bus from the Provincial Transportation Company of Havana was stoned, resulting in the breaking of its front windshield and the entry into the workshop of a vehicle vital for the operation of a public transportation system, collapsed due to the shortage of fuel and the reduction of its vehicle fleet.

“This can cause accidents. Doing this is an act of cowardice,” denounced a Cuban Internet user in the group of Facebook 'Bus & Truck Accidents', sharing in its publication some photographs of the state of the front window of the urban bus, right in the middle of the driver's field of vision.

The stone or projectile used by the vandals caused the windshield to crack, without actually penetrating it, so there were no injuries in the incident.

The bus, a Chinese-made Yutong identified with the number 9029, belongs to the whereabouts of the Regla municipality and covered the A32 route (Palatino - Regla - Habana del Este).

In the publication, several users regretted and denounced these events that affect the already critical public transportation service in the capital.

Others tried to explain it as part of a general unrest in the population, to which some responded that this was channeled against those responsible for the situation: the leaders and the repressive forces that protect the regime.

This is at least the fifth incident of this nature that has occurred in Havana in the space of a month.

At the beginning of April, a public transport bus was stoned shortly before 11 p.m. while circulating through the Centro Habana municipality, as reported on its social networks by the Provincial Transportation Company of the capital.

The entity specified that the vandalism took place at 10:40 p.m. in Prado between Genios and Cárcel against bus 8412, which covered route A58, which begins its journey in Boyeros and Bruzón (Plaza de la Revolución) and concludes its journey in the Bahía district (Eastern Havana).

Photos released by the state transportation company showed that the stones apparently hit the front area, where the driver sits.

Days later, Several public transportation buses in Havana were vandalized, after being stoned while carrying out their usual routes.

A note published by the Provincial Transportation Company of Havana reported three incidents of stone throwing on different routes.

One of the events occurred on “bus 9002 that covered Route A 27 at the Palatino terminal,” which according to the source “while at the 26 and Puentes Grandes stop, a fight broke out upstairs and a passer-by threw a stone across the street. front door splintering the glass of the driver’s cabin.”

In the other incident, the stone throwing was described as “massive” against bus 8456 that covered Route A62 at the Guanabo Terminal.

It happened when the vehicle was parked at the Virgen del Camino stop. The source reported that the driver was attacked, while the individuals fled.

The last of the incidents involved the 5500 bus that covered Route 55 from Terminal Lisa and occurred at 23rd Street and the intersection with 214th Street. The criminals fled and broke some passenger windows.

These events occur in the midst of a crisis in citizen mobility in the Cuban capital, described by Yunier de la Rosa Hernández, general director of Transportation in the territory, during a review of the Ministry of Transportation (MITRANS).

At the beginning of March, 252 teams were circulating in the country's capital according to official figures, a number less than the 309 who remained unemployed.

According to the capital manager, At Havana stops, people can spend up to three or four hours waiting for transportation., depending on whether the route is main or feeder, for which sometimes they only have one bus in operation.