Comments on: Public Transportation Prices Rising This Week http://www.argentinepost.com/2009/01/public-transportation-prices-rising-this-week.html Information & Insight on Argentina Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:25:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Michael Z http://www.argentinepost.com/2009/01/public-transportation-prices-rising-this-week.html#comment-1415 Michael Z Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:33:29 +0000 http://www.argentinepost.com/?p=903#comment-1415 The article is right on the mark stating: "finding the extra coins necessary to pay the new ticket prices. That could be the single most frustrating thing about the higher prices". It's going to be a very, very big problem in Buenos Aires to have the exact change for a collectivo. Argentina has a major coin shortage problem and that should have been resolved before any hike in transportation fares. THIS IS ARGENTINA! The article is right on the mark stating: “finding the extra coins necessary to pay the new ticket prices. That could be the single most frustrating thing about the higher prices”. It’s going to be a very, very big problem in Buenos Aires to have the exact change for a collectivo. Argentina has a major coin shortage problem and that should have been resolved before any hike in transportation fares. THIS IS ARGENTINA!

]]> By: Fred http://www.argentinepost.com/2009/01/public-transportation-prices-rising-this-week.html#comment-1414 Fred Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:35:27 +0000 http://www.argentinepost.com/?p=903#comment-1414 Good one Juan, I stupidly paid the subway today with a 10, and only got 10c back. Damn! I use the Yanqui Mike strategy with monedas, I make friends with my local vendors give them monedas when I have extra. Today I was short and they gave me 4 monedas today! Fred fourpointreport.blogspot.com Good one Juan, I stupidly paid the subway today with a 10, and only got 10c back. Damn! I use the Yanqui Mike strategy with monedas, I make friends with my local vendors give them monedas when I have extra. Today I was short and they gave me 4 monedas today!
Fred fourpointreport.blogspot.com

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.argentinepost.com/2009/01/public-transportation-prices-rising-this-week.html#comment-1413 Anonymous Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:09:21 +0000 http://www.argentinepost.com/?p=903#comment-1413 strange.... no one is reacting anymore..... dragno strange….
no one is reacting anymore…..
dragno

]]> By: juan http://www.argentinepost.com/2009/01/public-transportation-prices-rising-this-week.html#comment-1412 juan Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:14:41 +0000 http://www.argentinepost.com/?p=903#comment-1412 this will be annoying and fun at the same time! Much better than paying with a $2 note is to pay with a $5 one, then you'll be getting a $2 note and $1,9 in coins ;) Try to do this for a while and stock as many coins as you can. It may sound a lil selfish but it works. At least, i used to do it in tolls.. In the Panamericana toll (back in the days when it was $2.2) it was way better to pay with two $2 notes than paying with a $5 one. this will be annoying and fun at the same time!

Much better than paying with a $2 note is to pay with a $5 one, then you’ll be getting a $2 note and $1,9 in coins ;)

Try to do this for a while and stock as many coins as you can. It may sound a lil selfish but it works. At least, i used to do it in tolls.. In the Panamericana toll (back in the days when it was $2.2) it was way better to pay with two $2 notes than paying with a $5 one.

]]> By: tina’s world - a tanguera between 2 lands… » Post Topic » Getting change for the bus is about to get trickier… http://www.argentinepost.com/2009/01/public-transportation-prices-rising-this-week.html#comment-1409 tina’s world - a tanguera between 2 lands… » Post Topic » Getting change for the bus is about to get trickier… Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:47:48 +0000 http://www.argentinepost.com/?p=903#comment-1409 [...] As if we didn’t already have enough of a challenge getting 1-peso worth of coins together for the bus (which only accepts coins by the way, and there is no bus pass, no magnetic card, you’d better have your coins.  And by the way there is a coin shortage too), it’s about to get a little more tricky.  Now we’ll have to pay AR $1.10 for a bus ride as well as the Subte.  More information here. [...] [...] As if we didn’t already have enough of a challenge getting 1-peso worth of coins together for the bus (which only accepts coins by the way, and there is no bus pass, no magnetic card, you’d better have your coins.  And by the way there is a coin shortage too), it’s about to get a little more tricky.  Now we’ll have to pay AR $1.10 for a bus ride as well as the Subte.  More information here. [...]

]]> By: AD http://www.argentinepost.com/2009/01/public-transportation-prices-rising-this-week.html#comment-1406 AD Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:52:08 +0000 http://www.argentinepost.com/?p=903#comment-1406 You're absolutely right, the rise is not the main problem. I wonder how they are going to do at subtes, from where they'll get 90 cents when someone pays with a 2 pesos bill. I just don't want to think how I'm going to do to get change for the bus. You’re absolutely right, the rise is not the main problem.
I wonder how they are going to do at subtes, from where they’ll get 90 cents when someone pays with a 2 pesos bill.

I just don’t want to think how I’m going to do to get change for the bus.

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