Bus services resumed in Morelia, Michoacán

After the release of thirty normalistas, students of Mexico’s rural Teachers’ College, and five policemen who where being held by students and community members of Arantepacua, municipality of Nahuatzen, Michoacán, all bus services to enter and leave the state were resumed this Saturday morning.

Thirty six hours after all bus services were halted, due to escalating violence at the protests by normalistas last Friday, state authorities informed that all roadways had been recovered and are now in conditions to be travelled.

Arcadio Méndez Hurtado, state leader of the National Chamber of Passenger and Tourism Transport (Canapat), noted that his chamber does not rely completely on authorities to guarantee safety on state roadways, however, bus services were resumed in order to prevent thousand of users from using the very expensive taxi service.

He added that the normalistas still hold ten buses in the Purépecha plateau and did not dismiss the possibility that bus services may be halted again if the normalistas were to reactivate road blockings and the lighting on fire of transport units.

After a day of services supension, Morelia Bus Terminal reported 850 bus services being cancelled, directly affecting 30,000 users plus the ones adding up in the Lázaro Cárdenas, Uruapan, Zamora and Apatzingán bus terminals, which also have regular large passenger traffic flows.