Photo: TanjugThe discounts go up to almost 50 percent, which I think will make people decide to pay for transportation - said the mayor today, explaining to the citizens what he talked about yesterday and they apparently did not understand him. The opposition believes that the proposal for a new public transport system in the city was made without an analysis and feasibility study, and that it will bring losses to the city.
It seems that the citizens of Belgrade did not understand Mayor Aleksandar Šapić very well yesterday, so today he had to explain to them again how the city transport will function from May.
Namely, the time ticket of 90 dinars is not abolished, only its price is abolished, so in the future it will cost only 50 dinars!
Let us recall that yesterday he said the following about the time ticket: "In the current system, there is a ticket that is valid for 90 minutes and costs 89 dinars." This card is being discontinued. There will be an all-day ticket for the whole city and the price will be 200 dinars."
Just in case, so that there would be no misunderstanding again, he announced: "We will send this information to people at their addresses so that there is no disinformation and obstruction."
And until then, today he said:
"In the future, the city will be divided into two zones and there will be two tariffs." The time ticket for 90 minutes cost 90 dinars, and now it will be 50, while the daily ticket for both zones will be 200 dinars. A seven-day ticket, also for both zones, will cost one thousand dinars, the same as the three-day ticket. The next big thing is the price of monthly tickets, which ranged from 2.990 to 4.990 dinars depending on the zone. Now zone A or zone B will be 2.500 dinars, and both zones 3.500 dinars. The discounts, therefore, go almost up to fifty percent, which I think will make people decide to pay for transportation."
Then: "the proposal is that annual tickets cost 25 for one zone, or 35 for both zones, while it used to be 54." In addition to elementary school students, high school students will also have the right to free transportation, and older citizens will no longer pay 417 dinars per year for a new ticket, but their ticket will be valid for life. All other privileged categories remain and the price will be one thousand dinars. Payment systems via SMS and applications will also be introduced, as well as at points of sale," Šapić specified.
The director of the Center for Local Self-Government, Nikola Jovanović, says that, unlike the previous private partner Kentkart, which received about 4.5 million euros per year from fare collection, the newly formed public company Beokom will cost the citizens of Belgrade more than seven million euros from the budget.
He also believes that Šapić's solution, according to which control will be carried out by communal police and not controllers, is bad, because "it raises the question of who will deal with communal order, noise or wild construction, if all communal workers - about 400 of them - are engaged in public transport". .
Nikola Jovanović reminds that "the city of Belgrade became the owner of validators after the first contract with Kentkart, and now we see that they are being returned - what is the logic? In doing so, the validators provided the city with significant data on the number and flow of passengers at any given moment. Also, how will we control private carriers and actual departures if we abolish the system with validators? These are significant allocations for the city. Even with the existing system, there were omissions and certain abuses, and by abolishing real-time monitoring of vehicles, we will be left without any control by SJP".
Đorđe Miketić, MP, who was elected as a candidate for mayor in the upcoming Belgrade elections in the Zajedno party, believes that "the main problem in these decisions is that they were made without any plan, analysis and feasibility study." No one knows what the consequences of these decisions will be because they are thoughtless and capricious. Belgrade has experts and institutions that could have prepared this well, but apparently Šapić is not interested in the opinions of professionals or in respecting procedures. As he passed on the embankment, so will he pass with all the decisions he makes alone, in the cabinet with other thugs."
Ana Gođevac, vice-president of the GrO Belgrade of the Freedom and Justice Party and councilor in the Belgrade City Assembly, believes that "it is not clear why Šapić is now raising the price of the daily transport ticket, which reaches the level of the metro price in some European cities."
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