Public transportation: the subsidy in doubts

Transporters consider themselves victimized by the recent rise of fuel prices. Today, professionals of the sector evoke once again the necessity of state subsidies in order to avoid urban transportation price rises. 

Some transporters indeed already benefited from state helps, in 2008, because of the unprecedented rise of crude oil barrel prices likely to impact on derivate product prices in Madagascar. 

Mamy Francis, line 114’s transporter, linking Antananarivo’s downtown to an outer suburb called Ambohimanarina currently regrets that the question of the subsidy has never been evoked by the new government of Transition. 

Professionals deplore that the HAT limited itself to a deduction of 50 Ariary per litre from the fuel price in April. Yet, the same prices recently rose by a bit less than 400 Ariary. A new price to give headaches to transporters whereas, as they specify it “the number of passengers seems to decrease”.