| Subway Riders in Mexico City Defy Sharp Metro Ticket Price Hike PressTV | |
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Confrontations are going on between metro employees and angry users who have joined the student protests. (PressTV)
This has been a common scene around the Mexico City underground lately: students jumping over turnstiles or crawling under them, and journalists reporting on this new social movement.
Friday, the price of a metro ticket went from 3 to 5 pesos; a sharp 66% rise for commuters' transportation budget. Now a metro ticket costs the equivalent to 7.6% of the daily minimum wage. So if a worker uses 2 tickets daily to go to work, 15% of their income goes to transportation; making the Mexico City underground proportionally one of the most expensive in the world.
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