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HAVANA, April 30 (Luis Viño Zímerman / www.cubanet.org) - The
central division of the Railroad Company of Cuba recently suspended passenger
service between provincial capital Santa Clara and surrounding towns due to
deficiencies in the track.
The measure stranded more than 26,000 area residents who must now depend on
infrequent bus service or expensive private transportation. Heretofore the train
connected outlying districts to the provincial capital twice a day.
Pedro Monteagudo and his wife María recently had to take their
11-year-old son to the orthopedist in Santa Clara children's hospital. They
ended up paying 300 pesos to a private party who took them in his car.
Government authorities, meantime, do little or nothing to alleviate the
transportation crisis.
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