Simple trains due to lack of driver grew 3.5 times

Since the beginning of the year, the average daily number of abolished railway flights due to the lack of drivers and their assistants increased 3.5 times. About this writes "Kommersant", who got acquainted with the documents of Russian Railways.

Every day, due to a lack of locomotive brigades, an average of 83 trains went on an average of 83 trains. At the same time, since the summer the problem has become aggravated: in August and September, more than two hundred flights were canceled every day.

The Russian Railways told Kommersant that the staff of locomotive brigades was equipped with 97.5%, about three thousand workers are not enough. It is borrowed with money: lifting, increasing hourly rates and scholarships for students, as well as complete compensation for renting housing. Thanks to this, for a month and a half, it was possible to recruit more than a thousand drivers and their assistants (whether there was an outflow from these posts, it is not specified - RS) .

Along with the increase in the costs of the set of locomotive brigades of Russian Railways, it increases the tariffs for transportation: by 11.6% - for passenger and by 13.8% - for freight from December 1. Last year, passenger passengers were indexed twice, in 2022 - once. As a result, the fare on long -distance trains in three years increased one and a half times, calculated Bank.ru.