The Yucatán government announced this Saturday the extraordinary allocation of 105 million pesos to the Metropolitan Va y Ven Transportation System to ensure its continued operation and improve the service received daily by approximately 500,000 users in the state.
The funds, which will be transferred starting Monday, come from an adjustment and reorientation of public spending toward strategic projects, prioritizing mobility as a key element for development and social well-being. Of these, 79.5 million pesos are state contributions and 25.5 million pesos are the Yucatán Transportation Agency’s (ATY) own resources.
With this financial boost, so far in 2025, the administration of Morena candidate Joaquín Díaz Mena has allocated one billion pesos to the Va y Ven system, exceeding the budget goal set for this entire year.
The ATY’s original budget, approved by the local Congress for the 2025 fiscal year, amounted to 2.454 billion pesos, of which 1.611 billion pesos correspond to its own revenues and 843 million pesos to state contributions.
The transportation system, with more than 490 units, serves Mérida, the Yucatecan capital, and the eastern municipalities of Valladolid and Tizimín, near the border with Quintana Roo.
Just last July, the government announced that it would allocate an additional 99 million pesos to guarantee the continued operation of the Va y Ven bus, totaling 933 million pesos, a figure that would represent more than 100 percent of the total state contribution for the entire year 2025.
The local transportation system has been embroiled in controversy since last March, when the director of the Yucatán Transportation Agency (ATY), Jacinto Sosa Novelo, told local deputies that the service had a deficit of 663.4 million pesos, in rounded figures, although by the end of this year the loss would be almost 1.858 billion pesos.
“The model is unsustainable; it’s only a business for one group,” said Sosa Novelo, referring to former PAN governor Mauricio Vila, who pushed this project forward under the guise of radically changing an antiquated and ineffective transportation service, supported by a group of influential concessionaires.
In addition to this issue, in the third week of July, 11 concessionaires of that transportation service, originally supported by former governor and current senator Vila Dosal, began pressuring the government to withdraw 50 percent of a total of 492 Va y Ven units, arguing that the authorities owe them millions of pesos for mileage traveled by their units.
According to businessmen’s estimates, the state owes around 1.2 billion pesos from January to date; However, official authorities emphasized that from January to July of this year, they already contributed 834 million pesos, which is the sum of the debt owed to concessionaires and not the 1.2 billion pesos requested by businesspeople.
In just seven months, the state government has allocated 834 million pesos to the public transportation system, a figure that represents more than 100 percent of the state contribution for the entire year 2025. This means that the allocated budgetary resources have been met in advance.
Source: jornada
