Bob Michaels
nobody special
My part time home in Cueto, Holguin in Cuba has various forms of "buses" all of which leave around the bus station. Some of the "buses" are official while others are private as the official transportation system is acknowledged to not be adequate the meet the need.
This is an official government bus. Travel to a nearby community is the equivalent of 4 cents. You usually need to be in line an hour before this bus leaves to be able to board.
This is the alternative private bus that runs the same route but costs equivalent of 20 cents. People use this bus after the official bus is filled.
Some of the buses run on RR tracks instead of roads as some outlying communities do not have reasonable road connections. Almost everywhere is connected by RR tracks to accommodate hauling the sugar cane from the fields to the sugar mill.
Some need bus transportation to go to work out in the sugar cane field. Since there are no passable roads, they have these trailers pulled by tractors. They load / unload on the other side of the RR tracks from the bus station.
There are also what most would consider a normal bus for transportation from a major city to another. These are Russian and are some 30 years old but usually reliable. This is at the local transportation terminal in Holguin City.
This is an official government bus. Travel to a nearby community is the equivalent of 4 cents. You usually need to be in line an hour before this bus leaves to be able to board.
This is the alternative private bus that runs the same route but costs equivalent of 20 cents. People use this bus after the official bus is filled.
Some of the buses run on RR tracks instead of roads as some outlying communities do not have reasonable road connections. Almost everywhere is connected by RR tracks to accommodate hauling the sugar cane from the fields to the sugar mill.
Some need bus transportation to go to work out in the sugar cane field. Since there are no passable roads, they have these trailers pulled by tractors. They load / unload on the other side of the RR tracks from the bus station.
There are also what most would consider a normal bus for transportation from a major city to another. These are Russian and are some 30 years old but usually reliable. This is at the local transportation terminal in Holguin City.
