The issue of electronic payment was in force throughout 2016. In fact, this proposal led to huge discussion between the government and different stakeholders in the transport sector.
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MOPT) held forums and workshops to inform citizenship about the existing proposals for the electronic payment system and to open a space for discussion.
Putting this project into practice would help to alleviate the serious, national transport crisis.
Liza Castillo, deputy minister of Transport, has coordinated this project at government level and she is also responsible for presenting this legislation to modernize the public transport.
According to Luis Diego González, Canabus spokesman, within the actions raised by the deputy minister, there are pilot plans that are unknown to the sector.
We also do not know how the money will be collected or how the money will be distributed, as well as the surpluses generated by the system. We hope we can get all the due explanations in 2017,
stated the official.
González declared that from the technological point of view, nothing prevents the immediate implementation of the electronic payment, but from a political level, they need to define the rules.
Silvia Bolaños, executive director of the National Chamber of Transport (CANATRES), said that, as a Chamber, they have insisted with written notices and notes to the Presidency and some state institutions because there is a significant advance in the subject of electronic payment.
Some of the companies that have dared to implement the system, explained Bolaños, are Hermanos Badilla, Tracasa, San José La Tapachula and Periférica.
According to Bolaños, on this issue there is nothing to invent since the systems already exists, what needs to be defined is how they are going to do it and in that regard, what they need to do is sit and talk.