In April 2017, the Government changed the subsidy policy for transporters after just over a quinquennium of inefficiency since its introduction in 2011. In fact, the previous subsidy channeling method has only aggravated the deficiency in public transport and filled pockets of the corrupt ones due to the lack of an effective control mechanism, that is, it was not possible to know if the beneficiaries of these same subsidies were actually making their vehicles available to the general public.
However, instead of being transparently accountable and holding potential offenders accountable, the Government chose to change the subsidy policy, ignoring the high expenditures previously made, and now decided to allocate vehicles to transporters, once again in an unclear manner . It should be noted that this practice has already been tried out in the past (the case of the 50 buses awarded to FEMATRO in 2011 by the Transport Development Fund) and has not had the desired effects.
