Hamlet Hermann, the former director of the Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET), in an interview in El Siglo says he fears chaos and disorder is making its way back to public transport. He said qualified personnel has been fired, including 21 agents who were carrying out post graduate studies in local universities and at the City College in New York City. He feared the days of users having to pay five or six fares, instead of taking one public transport bus to get to their destination would be back. He forecast the shortened routes and increased fares would Hermann was very critical that the government had placed taxi union leaders in positions of power within AMET. "We were oriented to favor the poor, now the orientation is to favor the so-called union leaders," he commented referring to the difference between his administration and the new transport authorities.
