Frustration over power outages in Yucatán extended to public transport this Tuesday.
Residents from western Mérida blocked Mérida 2000 Avenue and the depot for Mobility Mérida vehicles, leaving five “Va y Ven” routes without service for over six hours. This marks the sixth street blockade in 14 days protesting the lack of electricity.
Protesters placed stones, traffic cones, tires, branches, and even a mattress across the roadway.
They had been without electricity in their homes for two days.
Additionally, the Yucatán Transport Agency reported the suspension of the following routes:
R87 Santiago-Clínica Esperanza-Petronila
R92 Avenida Jacinto Canek-Almendros-UPY
R96 Animaya-Bicentenario
R112 77-Sambulá and R113 66 Amapola
All these routes connect to Ciudad Caucel, leaving thousands of passengers stranded.
Power was restored shortly after 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday.
Following this, the residents cleared the roads, and the five routes resumed operations.
“It’s not that we are troublemakers or revolutionaries; we have to stage these protests so that someone pays attention to us,” said Ms. Alegría Alcocer.
“We are fed up with stopgap measures; we want solutions. Otherwise, we will stage these protests again as many times as necessary, and they will get worse each time,” she noted.
Meanwhile, Pablo Gamboa Miner, director of the Yucatán Energy Agency, reported that over 700 power outage reports had been received a couple of days ago.
Source: eluniversal
