Pay up or get off

Starting from the new year, travel on Moscow public transport will jump by another 2 rubles.

A trip on the metro will rise in price to 19 rubles, on a bus-trolleybus-tram – to 17. This was predicted by the deputy mayor of the capital, Yuri Roslyak:
– The fare will increase by 13–15% from the current cost.
It is curious that the day before, city hall employees, commenting on the repair of tram tracks, the construction of new subway stations and the appearance of light boards at stops, swore that this would not affect the price of tickets. Something else probably had an impact.
But in most other Russian cities, whose treasuries are not so spoiled with money, funds were still found to subsidize local transport. In Tomsk, for example, the fare costs 9 rubles, in Chita – 8. There is no news of price increases there.
There are, however, exceptions like the capital. In Ust-Ilimsk, the price of a trip will increase from 7 to 9 rubles. The authorities of Pskov and Khabarovsk may present a similar surprise to their citizens (here they threaten to increase the fare from 9 to 10 and from 10 to 12 re, respectively).
But in Petrozavodsk, from November 1, travel, on the contrary, will become cheaper. And immediately one and a half times. True, not for everyone, but only for schoolchildren and students. But it's still nice.