BH bus stations fill with people after transport suspension for the night – General

Venda Nova and Vilarinho stations, the two largest integration points of the Belo Horizonte transport system, overflow passengers this Thursday morning (17). The overcrowding caused by the suspension of the circulation of buses during the night in the places, due to the burning of another bus in Grande BH, the fifth in less than a week.

On the night of Wednesday (16), the bus line 607 (Estao Vilarinho / Esplendor) was set on fire in Ribeiro das Neves by four hooded criminals armed with submachine guns. As a result, the Union of Passenger Transport Companies of Belo Horizonte (SetraBH) ordered the concessionaires to stop the flow of vehicles until the clear day, alleging lack of security to operate. The movement only resumed at 6:00 am.

Without transportation, passengers can organize however they can to get to the stations. Some came from Uber. Others hitchhike. Some took metropolitan lines and completed the rest of the journey p. Many people will be late for work.

the case of goalkeeper Rodrigo Rubens, whose work begins at 6 in the morning. He says he usually leaves the house at 4:30 am and Estao Venda Nova arrives at 5:00 am. From there, take another path downtown. Calculate arriving at work one hour late.

“Today, as there were no buses in the city, I had to take one from the DER, with a more expensive ticket, to get there. I only got here and I have been waiting for an hour since there are only buses starting at 6 am, when I should already have. start working. Patience “, laments the passenger.

The nursing technician Clia Maria Soares, who works in the hemodialysis center of Hospital da Baleia, estimates that her patients will be waiting for her for at least two hours. The professional begins work at 5:30 am. At 6 in the morning, when the buses began to circulate, he was still at the station. “I took an Uber to get here. I arrived around 5 am. When I saw that the buses were still going to be late, I tried to take a bus outside the station, on the avenue, but there was no way. The way to wait” , he confirmed. Yes.

When the buses finally arrived, many passengers, irritated by the delay, boarded complaining. There was an insult to the conductor Robson Magela, of the S61 line (Estao Venda / Mantiqueira). He reports that he would normally start running at 4 in the morning. Today, he started at 6am, fearing the crowd would hit him.

“It was the vandalism that hurt people a lot, right? The driver works in constant fear. For fear of physical harm caused by both passengers and bandits. In the case of burning buses, there have been cases in which the driver has not had time to get out of the car, ”he says.