Five electric tricycles began operating this Monday in Gibara, Holguín, offering a new public transportation service at a cost of 10 CUP per passenger.
Eduardo Rodríguez Dávila, Minister of Transport, bragged on Facebook that "the initiative has been well received by the people of Gibara," although this measure seems just a patch in the face of the structural deficiencies facing transportation in Cuba.
The head of the department stated that this “is part of a program to extend this technology in public passenger transportation across all provinces of the country, for the remainder of this year and the next,” a solution that is insufficient and temporary in the face of the profound crisis affecting the sector.
Rodríguez also reported that the introduction program for electric tricycles is not limited to Gibara, as five tricycles have also been placed in the municipalities of Baracoa and Maisí, in the province of Guantánamo, which will soon be put into operation.
Recently, the electric tricycle park for public passenger transportation in Havana expanded with a fleet of 35 new vehicles, which will join the 118 already operating in the city.
Rodríguez informed on his Facebook profile that currently these media operate 17 routes across eight municipalities.
The last two of these routes were recently implemented, connecting the first the points 23 and 26 with 23 and L, both urban nodes located in El Vedado, while the second linked 23 and 26 with the Sports City and the Joaquín Albarrán Clinical Surgical Hospital (Clinico de 26) in El Cerro.
Amid the transportation crisis in Cuba and the fuel shortage, the government has promised Cubans to create electric tricycles that will feature high technology and will be equipped with solar panels.
The vehicles will not only be dedicated to passenger transport; they must also develop the communication system and disseminate, through their two screens and a sound system, the topics of interest of the regime.
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