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The Legal Framework for Collective Public Transport was the subject of the program Expression Nacional, on TV Camara, shown this Wednesday (8). The proposal, approved by the Federal Senate and which is still being processed in the Chamber of Deputies, seeks to modernize the sector and transform the role of the Federal Government, states and municipalities in offering public transport in the country.
Representing the Ministry of Cities, the general coordinator of Urban Mobility Regulation, Antonio Esposito, highlighted that the construction of effective public policies depends on integration between different levels of government.
Brazil is very diverse, more than a thousand municipalities have public transport, with different characteristics. The Legal Framework is a proposal that clearly defines for the mayor the sources of resources he will have and what he can do with it, he explained.
Urban mobility requires a very high level of coordination. And the passenger doesnt want to know if he is leaving a municipal bus and getting on a state bus or a federal one. He wants to have comfortable, efficient and fast transport that is integrated, to the point of guaranteeing that he will reach the terminal. That is our challenge, he stated.
During the debate, Esposito also addressed topics such as tariff reduction, reinforcing that the Federal Government can contribute to supporting municipalities within their respective realities.
The representative of the Ministry of Cities also highlighted that the country faces structural bottlenecks in public transport, which involve the qualification of projects and the best use of available resources. He recalled that the department is developing the National Urban Mobility Study (ENMU), in partnership with BNDES, with the objective of identifying and structuring a portfolio of priority projects, aimed at the formation of an integrated and optimized transport network.
In most of the countrys capitals and urban centers, there has been a disorderly growth of transport lines and, today, we see competition between buses and rail when, in fact, one should feed the other. So, before reducing fares, we need to rationalize the network we have. ENMU is studying this in the 21 largest metropolitan regions in Brazil, added Esposito.
The cast that participated in this edition of "Expression Nacional". Credit: Thiago Quint/MCID.
Federal deputies Jilmar Tatto and Julio Lopes also participated in the program, as well as the executive director of the National Association of Urban Transport Companies (NTU), Marcos Bicalho, who contributed complementary views on the role of the private sector and the challenge of guaranteeing quality public transport throughout the country.
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