Ecuador: Public Buses Quito – Ibarra increases to $4.00

elcomercio.com reported The cost of tickets for travel on bus public transportation between the capital of Ecuador and the city of Ibarra (Imbabura), located to the North of the country, increased from the afternoon of today, August 21, 2014. The National Agency of transit (ANT) authorized carriers raise the value of USD 2.50 fare to 4 per person. Thus assured it Óscar García, Manager of Ibarra, which brings together the Andean, tourism and air taxi companies transport United. Carriers requested temporary USD 5 upwards, because now they must enter and leave the capital by greater distance alternate routes, while works are carried out to stabilize slopes on the way Panamericana, between the heat exchanger of the Collas and Guayllabambaroute. The road improvement work seeks to prevent damage to vehicles driven by the sector, as it did after earthquakes earlier this month that rocked Quito. Read Article