Alliance Services

Today in several cities - conception and Rancagua for example - concessions are overdue and are temporarily extended by resolutions of the Ministerial Regional Secretaries of transport and telecommunications system. The new rule provides that the call to tender it must be by means of a notice published in the official journal, and the Transport Ministry favors companies that offer less-polluting buses, better working conditions for its personnel, and capacity for complementary services that allow to develop efficient, safe routes and quality. In tenders only eligible companies with financial solvency, technically trained to before proceeding to the tender itself, be examined when their economic, financial, operational and administrative capacity. This leaves outside the system to guilds associations of entrepreneurs and assimilated drivers unions which, through campaigns and to parliamentarians and political pressures claimed to continue operating with routes and public transportation services. For the Ministry of transport and telecommunications, as senators and deputies who by a large majority approved the law according to a protocol which the Concertacion and the Alliance signed in September of last year, the faculties were delivered to provide the country, both in Santiago and in regions, with safe, efficient public transportation services and quality and develop this activity by those who have the financial means, and technical conditions of capacity to meet these obligations. The powers handed over to the Ministry of transport and telecommunications are an amplitude unknown in other areas of the economy, to the end that you can expire the concessions and fix possible compensation, by the mere fact of accepting the thesis of change, revoke or modify the services if the public interest so requires.