As the reactivation of local businesses steadily picks up, Chapala area residents dependent upon public transportation are raising complaints about lax enforcement of the obligatory use of face masks to help contain the spread of the Covid-19.
Passengers and bus drivers alike appear to face no consequences for going bare-faced aboard crowded camiones operated by a monopolistic private company that has reduced the regularity of transport routes during the the lockdown. City Hall officials say that they are unable to intervene on behalf of consumers since the oversight of public transportation services is the purview of state transit authorities.