The deaths caused by allocated public transport increased: In 2023 it was 59 and in 2024 it reached 69, according to quarterly reports on the transportation work in the transportation secretariat.
Such a situation occurs in the midst of a fact in which the drivers of these units do not need to meet periodic training during their working life. Currently, C, the C -theoretical and practical training license that lasts between six and eight hours, is currently required.
In most of this type of deadly facts, passenger buses and microbus participated: In 2023 there were 47 cases and in 2024, 45.
The deaths caused by allegations with Metropos five were in 2023 and in 2024 increased to 12.
The deadly transportation actions in which taxis participated from seven, in 2023, to 12, in 2024.
“Technically, the higher the size and weight of the car and the highest is the speed, the more dangerous for those who drive it, for those who crush it and society,” he told Excelsior Areli Carreon, founder of the Civil Assembly.
Local MP Patricia Orieza (MC) presented an initiative to be mandatory for the transfer drivers who were waived to receive the annual training yesterday at the city conference, otherwise the concession will be withdrawn.
The legislator said in an interview: “People who conduct public transport in Mexico represent one of the greatest risks for pedestrians and cyclists, and this involves a responsibility for each of the companies designated for government companies,” the legislator said in an interview.
This initiative proposes the reform of Article 230 of the Mobility Law in a manner indicating: “The concession must prove the annual training of persons from the public transportation of the path that was conducted in front of the Ministry of Transport.”
URRIZA explained that in the UK, the driver’s professional efficiency program (CPC) has implemented since 2008, which requires public transport drivers and commodities a renewable professional certificate every five years through 35 hours of continuous training, which “led to a decrease in accidents and improvements in the quality of service.”
The deputy also suggested in the initiative that the agency itself must enhance the conclusion of cooperation agreements “between the congregation in public transport methods and natural or ethical persons or civil society organizations, which are devoted to theoretical and practical training on the safety and culture of the movement, which aims at the Commander of Public Transport.”
“All people who deal with heavy vehicles and who hold passengers bear more responsibility and need more training (…) in general phrases, I see the initiative well, and I only think that you have to follow, because the many are the most important thing is the application of transmission,” said Bernardo Paranda, Latin American director of the Institute of Transport and Development Policy (ITDP).
Complaints
In his initiative, Orrea explained that “in the year 2020, in the first year of the epidemic, the Movement in Mexico City received a total of 694 complaints regarding poor service on various public transport methods (…) in 2021 there were 1,749 complaints for weak service in important public transport.”
Most complaints were hurry, because drivers invade other passages, because they carry music in a large size or provide a bad treatment for users.
He said: “If we talk to anyone who is going through Mexico City, they can tell you that transport drivers are driving like crazy people, they rush, and do roads. There is no control over the driver, especially trucks and roads.”
The legislator concluded that if the reform is approved, the number of accidents and deaths from road events can be reduced; “That is why we insisted on this issue and not only for public transport drivers, we have talked about it several times for the city’s drivers.”
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- In the United Kingdom, they are demanding drivers in public transport and goods a renewed professional certificate every five years.
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