The Government decided it the maximum negative balance allowed in each SUBE card stay frozen $480Of “Technical Problems”. That value It is not enough to complete even two trips. by bus (minimum ticket is $270) in the city and Greater Buenos Aires, when there were usually up to four minimum tickets.
Second resolution 12/2024 of the Ministry of Transportpublished this Friday in the Official Gazette, an “instant credit top-up for credit cards has been established Single Electronic Ticket System (SUBE) equivalent at $480which will be usable whenever the card has no balance available for use and access to all services public transportand will be restored as priority” on the next load.
In the recitals of the law the Government justifies it Nación Servicios reported that SUBE cards “currently do not have sufficient internal logical capacity to store the negative balance” and specified that work is being done on the “field replacement of part of the Modules or Secure Access” to the system and its machines, and on the reprogramming of those that do not need to be replaced.
After increasing the minimum bus fare in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area (AMBA) to 270 dollars – and 130 dollars on trains -, The maximum negative balance was expected to rise to $1,080but at the moment it is technically impossible.
Source: Clarin
