Guantanamo Province experienced an increase in passenger transportation during 2017, a trend maintained this year, with the arrival of new vehicles for all routes, including those operating in the mountains, which cover 78 percent of the territory.
Luis Florián Columbié, delegate of the Ministry of Transport, told the ACN that the newly incorporated vehicles contributed to the transfer, in the province and beyond, of almost six million people, more than a quarter of what was scheduled for the stage.
He said that from 2014 to date, the State has benefited Guantanamo with 79 Diana buses, of which 18 are recently arrived and were assigned to the urban service in this city and Baracoa.
This type of medium-sized bus designed and produced in Cuba, is used to transfer people that need to travel from the Guantanamo Municipality to the Imias, San Antonio del Sur, Manuel Tames, Niceto Perez and El Salvador chief towns.
According to the interviewee, on the Year 59th of the Revolution and the first two months of 2018 were decisive in improving the service in that sphere and solving long-standing concerns of the electors.
Although discreetly, 10 motorcycles helped to that success, an amount that will double before the end of March.
Regarding interprovincial transportation service, seven Yutong buses were received to improve traveling from Guantanamo to Havana, and strengthen the link with Villa Clara and Matanzas, from Villa del Guaso (former name of Guantanamo City), the sixth most populated city in Cuba.
But the most important purpose carried out by the provincial direction of Transport and the corresponding Ministry is the inauguration of the Havana-Maisí route, through the Yumurí-Jobo Claro road, or deviation of the Boruga, on the outskirts of Baracoa and the southeast end.
This route ends in La Máquina, the chief town of the farest municipality of Havana, and for making it true before the end of the semester, the Guantanamo Integral Construction Company (Guanco) works in Loma de Maya, a few kilometers from La Máquina, where Hurricane Matthew entered.
While Guanco faces the hydrogeological problems that exist in this elevation, due to landslides and excess humidity, the bus terminal is projected to receive the first passengers coming directly from Havana during the current semester.
In the recent session of the National Assembly of People’s Power, the Ministry of Transport announced the early inauguration of 15 short and three long destinations: La Habana-Maisí, and the links of Santiago de Cuba with Mayabeque and Artemisa.
Translation: Liubis Balart