COSTA RICA NEWS – The Government of Nicaragua said it is limiting from three to two the number of daily trips bound for Costa Rica by Tica Bus and Transnica.
The administrative sanction will have a “minimum effect” of 30 days, that is it will be in place during the month of December and the first week in January 2015, according to the noticed by the Ministerio de Transporte e Infraestructura (MTI) – Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure
The sanction coincides with the period of greatest influx of passengers.
The directive comes one month after the MTI asked both Costa Rican bus operators to improve service on the Nicaragua leg of the trip, including providing sanitary services and benches at bus stops where they pick up passengers.
The directive does not apply to the Nicaragua bus operators offering service from Nicaragua to Costa Rica, Nica Express and Central Line.
Last October, the Consejo de Transporte Público de Costa Rica (CTP) – Costa Rica’s Public Transport Council, denied the Nicaraguan bus company, Nicabus, an operating license in the country.
Thousands of Nicaraguans living in Costa Rica, mostly for work, spend the holidays in their home country. Between 300.000 and 500.000 Nicaraguans live and work in Costa Rica, mainly in housework, farming and construction.
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WTH?? Ok, I thought I’ve heard it all in CR with the “Cutting off your nose to spite your face” acts but this takes the cake!! Cutting back their services during the busiest time of the year?? A time for people/Nicaraguans to return home to their families?? I thought CR was all about “family”???
I’ve been taking TransNica or TicaBus to/from Nicaragua every 3 months & at least in Rivas & Granada, every time I asked I had access to a bathroom & there were a few plastic chairs outside the “office” & at the border & in Managua there were full on bathrooms & seats so not sure what they’re talking about. (is that what this is about??)
Help me understand their “logic”??
The Nicaragua government is sanction the Costa Rican bus companies, limiting them two trips daily. Not Costa Rica!