translated from Spanish: ‘ Vagoneros ‘ request spaces to sell within the Metro

A group of ‘ Vagoneros ‘ were shown outside the offices of the Metro collective transport system, located in the center of Mexico City, to demand its regulation as traders within the stations.
For days the informal traders have requested the capital Government, headed by Claudia Sheinbaum, the opportunity to sell their products within the Metro stations and change offer to perform cleaning tasks.
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In response to requests, the Metro collective transport system reported that in recent months it has decreased 75% of informal trade within its facilities, thanks to the operations implemented in the stations.
The operations, carried out by the institutional security management of the STC and the auxiliary and banking and Industrial Police of the Ministry of Public Security, consist of keeping track of stairways, turnstiles and platforms.
“This prevents informal traders, such as the so-called bullfighters, from entering the transport lines or if they install their merchandise on a blanket in such spaces,” they explain in a statement.
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The surveillance has also hardened within the wagons, “which has managed to eradicate almost entirely the number of bocineros and inhibits the presence of vendors.”
These operations are permanent in the 12 lines of the Metro and are reinforced in certain stations based on the complaints made by the users broadcast through social networks.
The STC argues that the presence of traders within the Metro is prohibited by the regulations of the Mobility Act, in its articles 223, 230 fractions III, XIV and XX:
III. To invade any area not intended for the transport of the users, and in particular, the roads, confined lanes, or tunnels where vehicles of this type of transport circulate.
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XIV. To exercise the itinerant trade, in the units, wagons and/or wagons, platforms, stations, tunnels, corridors, stairs, access areas, exits and zones of distribution and zones of access and exit of the stations in a polygon of 25 meters.
XX. Obstruct access areas, exits, units, cars and/or wagons, platforms, stations, tunnels, corridors, stairs and in general, all pedestrian traffic points and the means of transport itself.
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Original source in Spanish