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How many minibuses will remain in Moscow
The Village collected statistics on how minibuses worked before and what will happen to them now after the transition to the new system
From August 15, all Moscow buses switched to a single method of paying for travel. If previously drivers of minibuses owned by private companies accepted money directly in the salon, now they began to accept single tickets and travel tickets. In addition, they are now prohibited from stopping on demand and deviating from routes. The bus fleet of private cab drivers has also changed: three types of blue buses will be on the line: large ones for 80–90 people, medium ones for 40–65 people, and small ones for 20 passengers. They must be equipped with air conditioning, heating system, DVR and CCTV camera. The Village spoke with Pavel Yablokov, editor of the online transport publication TR.ru, and collected data on what the private bus route market was like before and what will happen to it now.
520,000
people used minibuses in Moscow
in 2015
4 500
minibuses traveled to the main highways of the city every day
in 2015
Near
320
routes remained in the hands of private cab drivers at the beginning of August. Of these, 37 were in Zelenograd and New Moscow, unaffected by the reform.
On the remaining
282
Moscow routes
About 2,400 machines were operating.
Basically it was
minibuses
208
commercial routes will switch to the new system, blue minibuses will begin to travel on them
> 100
routes, mainly operating on suburban routes, will continue to operate according to the old scheme
35–40
The average cost of a minibus ticket was rubles , but there were also routes with prices of 25 and 60 rubles
70
rubles - the highest ticket price among Moscow private cab drivers; how much did it cost to travel on minibus 477m, Yugo-Zapadnaya - Yuzhnoye Butovo
15–20
minutes - maximum
the service interval of most of the new minibuses, however, some of them will still travel once every half hour
8 out of 70
private companies remained
on the Moscow market, having won a competition for the right to transport passengers; The group “Avtoline” received the most routes
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