Barranquilla: process for implementation of the taximeter - Barranquilla - Colombia

With the socialization of adjustments and the schedule of a new tenderthe Metropolitan Area of ​​Barranquilla (AMB) resumed the process for the implementation of the intelligent system in Individual Public Transportation (TPI), which includes the taximeter.

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In a meeting with businessmen, owners and union associations of taxi drivers, the director of the AMB, Libardo García, presented the changes and adjustments requested during the observation period.

Some adjustment requests related to the uncertainties derived from the effects of the pandemic were found to be pertinent

Currently, there are 17 companies authorized by the AMB to provide the service, which have 14,363 affiliated taxiswhich on average each perform 17 races per day.

According to the official, the recommendations received during the observation stage of the bidding process were taken into account, aimed at the selection of the technological operator that will guarantee the implementation of the SIT.

“Some adjustment requests related to the uncertainties derived from the effects of the pandemic on the shortage of electronic components required by the system were found to be pertinent,” García said.

He added that they also analyzed the racing demand mobilized by this mode of individual transportation, the instability of the exchange rate, among others, which had a direct impact on the financial model of the structuring.

Due to the above, he recalled that it was necessary to “stop along the way” to adjust and make the implementation of the SIT viable and sustainable.

The settings that are socializing

The system maintains elements such as a taximeter (AVL) that guarantees the collection of a fair rate

In this sense, he indicated that among the adjustments, the vision of strengthening aspects such as security, quality of service and restore citizen confidence in legal transport.

“The system maintains elements such as a taximeter (AVL) that guarantees the collection of a fair rate, connected to an electronic screen that allows viewing the service, the identity of the driver and a monitoring system that allows the authority to validate compliance with the regulations. service provision conditions”, stated the director of the AMB.

He estimated that the adjustments made to the new SIT-TPI bidding process generate positive impacts for its different actors, mitigating the financing riskincluding technological renovation and a competitive operational rate for the sector.

The foregoing, as he pointed out, reduces the sustainability costs of the project by 18.2 percent, for which he thanked the commitment and willingness of all the actors involved in the project.

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The financing of the system

He reiterated that the financing of the SIT will result from the selection of a technological operator that is in charge of making the investments required to implement the solution.

These expenses will be remunerated over time through a quality factor of 450 pesos per race, avoiding that the on-board kit devices and operating costs represent a burden for owners and drivers, according to the socialization.

The union expressed the need to advance in its implementation and harmonize its start-up with greater controls on the illegality that affects the individual public transport sector.

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US Plan for New Center to Process Afghan Evacuees in Virginia Sparks Controversy

Washington — 

The U.S. government aims to open a new center in Northern Virginia to receive additional Afghan evacuees, according to four sources familiar with the matter, although even before any official announcement the local sheriff in the area raised concerns about the plan.

The center is due to open as the government closes down the last of eight sites on military bases that housed tens of thousands of people evacuated from Afghanistan since August. It would be staffed by multiple U.S. agencies involved with the resettlement effort and could be operational by late February or early March, a senior U.S. official told Reuters.

The site being considered is in Leesburg, Virginia, according to two of the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement to Reuters that it was still working to confirm the location of the center.

The sheriff’s office of Loudoun County, where Leesburg is located, issued a statement Thursday saying it was told by DHS that the government planned to bus some 2,000 Afghan evacuees a month, mostly relocating from Qatar, to the National Conference Center (NCC) from nearby Dulles International Airport beginning this month.

Sheriff Michael Chapman raised concerns about a “lack of communication, lack of planning, language barriers” as well as “the NCC’s unfenced proximity to a residential neighborhood and two public schools,” according to the statement.

DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the sheriff’s concerns. Chapman said he had spoken to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on the matter.

The remaining Afghans currently housed at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey – the last of the eight sites on military bases – are expected to be resettled in communities around the country in the coming days.

Major milestone

The move away from placing refugees in repurposed military installations marks a major milestone in U.S. President Joe Biden’s evacuation operation launched as the Taliban overran Afghanistan in August.

About 1,200 Afghans were still at the base, commonly known as Fort Dix, as of Tuesday, DHS said. The agency told Reuters that the base will continue housing evacuees awaiting resettlement until the new processing center is set up.

About 80,000 Afghans have been resettled in the United States as part of “Operation Allies Welcome” in the largest effort of its kind since the Vietnam War era.

The population passing through bases included applicants to the Special Immigrant Visa program, which is available to Afghans at risk of Taliban retaliation who worked for the U.S. government.

Others were admitted to the United States temporarily via “humanitarian parole” with the option to apply for asylum.

The Biden administration has urged Congress to create a more direct pathway to citizenship for Afghans.

Thousands of vulnerable Afghans are still stranded abroad as the U.S. government evaluates their cases and wrestles with logistical challenges to processing their admission.

Eligible Afghans currently in third countries could be allowed entry through an expedited refugee admission process, Reuters reported earlier this month.

But for Afghans still inside Afghanistan the pathways are limited. As of data from mid-February, the U.S. government had only approved around 170 applications out of 43,000 Afghans who have applied for “humanitarian parole” to come to the United States.

Mayor of Sincelejo sued Revocation Process - Other Cities - Colombia

Before the Attorney General’s Office the mayor of Sincelejo, Andrés Gómez Martínez, demanded the revocation process initiated against him, by identifying forged signatures.

Last week the National Registry of Civil Status endorsed 34,440 signatures, out of a little more than 62,000 that were collected and delivered by the Revocation Committee.

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At that time, more than 22,000 signatures were annulled due to anomalies. After that, the list of people who signed was known and then other irregularities were confirmed.

Relatives of people who appear signing denounced that their loved ones died many years ago, which for them constitutes a painful affront.

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This was said by Rosa Bertel, who stated that her relative died more than 20 years ago and is on the list provided by the Registry.

Committee would have acted without consulting the steps to follow

Likewise, complaints were filed by people who did not sign, who work in the same administration, and even provincial sub-controllers were identified.

“I have tried not to interfere in the issue and I have given way to democracy, that the pro-revocation committee does its job, however, I believe that the time has come to act and seek that things be done with transparency. We have given power to our lawyer to file the respective complaints due to the large number of anomalies that have been detected in this process,” said Mayor Andrés Gómez.

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Said They also await a new pronouncement by the Registry in relation to a new analysis of the signatures.

Committee Member Resignation

Also known during the week was the resignation of one of the spokesmen for the movement seeking the recall, teacher Álex Manuel Sierra, who reportedly became aware of the anomalous situations that have occurred during the process of collecting the signatures and now with the result of the presumed falsification of the same.

Álex Sierra said in his letter that the committee would have acted without consulting the steps to follow and that it had nothing to do with the complaints that were being made in the process.

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For now, the members of the committee and the lawyers of the municipal administration have said that they will first wait for the new endorsement of signatures from the Registrar and the result of the complaint they filed with their respective evidence.

Francis Xavier Barrios
Special for WEATHER
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