Moscow Metropolites

Subway travel rules have become stricter

Armed with the new city Code of Administrative Offenses, Moscow transport workers have tightened travel standards for underground public transport. Thus, according to the new rules for using the metro, approved by the Moscow government, on the territory of the city subway it is officially prohibited, along with alcohol-containing intoxicating drinks, to drink beer and other drinks made on its basis, to tell fortunes, beg, and also to pester passengers with offers of purchase and sale - including travel tickets.

“It is prohibited to sell transport cards and tickets for travel in the metro, as well as to provide passage on them outside the checkpoints of metro stations by persons not authorized to do so by the metro management,” city officials complain about the widespread speculation in tickets during peak hours today. According to them, cunning businessmen are driving down the price of a one-time trip on the subway. In addition, according to the press service of the capital's metro, material damage to the transport enterprise is caused by beneficiaries who abuse their preferences by lending electronic travel tickets to relatives and friends. The new rules prohibit the transfer of travel documents to other persons and oblige the passenger to present the ticket to a metro employee at automatic checkpoints upon request.

In addition, to account for all free riders, the document establishes the exact age at which a passenger becomes solvent. So, if previously travel on the metro was free for all children who could visually be mistaken for preschoolers, now a ticketless passenger will have to prove that he is not yet seven years old.

Let us remind you that according to the new Moscow Code of Administrative Offenses of November 21, 2007, “obstructing the lawful activities of a member of a public order security center” can cost a passenger from 500 to 1 thousand rubles. fine Violation of the new procedure for using the territory of the Moscow metro and the 25-meter zone from its ground entrance halls is punishable by a fine of 2 to 2.5 thousand rubles. And for representatives of occult services, a separate article is provided, threatening fortune telling in public places with an administrative penalty in the amount of 100 to 500 rubles.

However, as Pavel Sukharnikov, deputy head of the press service of the Moscow Metro, told Vremya Novostey, in conditions of high load on the subway, which carries up to 9 million people daily, in addition to the requirements for passenger behavior, some features of the operation of the transport system itself have also changed. In particular, the document regulates the possibility of using CCTV cameras in train carriages. According to Mr. Sukharnikov, trains on the Koltsevaya and Sokolnicheskaya metro lines are already equipped with them, and the Zamoskvoretskaya line is also being equipped. Considering that passengers would be monitored everywhere in this way, it was necessary to officially provide for the use of technical means of surveillance.

There is one more change in the rules for using the metro: if previously people, as a rule, were forbidden to stand on the left side of the escalator to let passing passengers in a hurry, now they will be required to listen to the instructions of the attendant and, in conditions of increasing passenger traffic, fill both the right and left sides .

Yulia KHOMCHENKO