More than 60 minibuses will be reduced in St. Petersburg in the summer

After July 2020, the Transport Committee will reduce more than 60 commercial routes in St. Petersburg. This was written by Kommersant with reference to three sources in the transportation industry. The information was confirmed by the Paper in the press service of the committee.

According to the Transport Committee, they are already discussing with the professional community how bus transportation will be organized in St. Petersburg after July 16. In particular, there is an agreement that the routes of non -state carriers will continue their work until the launch of transport reform. But some of them can be reduced earlier.

“Ineffective“ commercial ”routes, 100 % duplicate“ social ”transport, which are planned to be canceled, are 34 routes (out of 265). Another 29 routes can be canceled at the request of the carrier, as agreed with the transport committee, ” Irina Efimova, spokeswoman for the transport committee, told Paper . According to her, 63 routes can be closed in the city.

Kommersant, citing three sources in the transportation industry, writes that they will reduce 67 routes that are still forbidden to work due to coronavirus. According to the publication, they want to close them when the carriers end with the current contracts with the administration. At the same time, according to the sources of the publication, until that moment, the authorities will not allow them to work on the tracks.

Most of the routes that can be canceled are served by large carriers: LLC Piterevto (27 routes), third park OJSC (12 routes) and LLC “St. Petersburg Transport Company” (8 routes). Almost all canceled routes duplicate the lines of state carriers of Passasasravtotrans and Gorelektrotrans, Kommersant writes.

What specific routes can be canceled is still unknown.

Earlier, at Ice-Governor Maxim Sokolov , he reported that transport reform in St. Petersburg was not implemented in 2020 due to the pandemic of coronavirus. The reform involved a reduction in most minibuses and the entry of buses instead. Sokolov could not name the new terms for launching the reform. At the same time, he argued that, according to preliminary information, all agreements concluded within its framework will extend until 2022.

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