Photo: FoNet/Marko DragoslavićThe revenue from the sale of tickets in the city transport in Belgrade was about 230 million dinars per month in the last three months, which is twice the result compared to the same time last year, claims Nikola Jovanović.
It will soon be four months since the new city transport charging system has been operating in Belgrade, but there are still no official data on how effective it is.
The mayor of Belgrade, Aleksandar Šapić, announced that he will come out with a six-month cross-section of the situation since the introduction of the new system, and experts are already saying that he has failed.
"Income from the sale of tickets in the city transport in Belgrade was about 230 million dinars per month in the last three months, which is twice as bad as at the same time last year, said the director of the Center for Local Self-Government (CLS) and former defender of the Belgrade City Assembly Nikola Jovanovic.
He said that according to the previous ticket collection system in Belgrade, the monthly income was about 560 million dinars per month.
"Although the new system is somewhat simpler for users, it is obvious that it has not yet achieved its basic purpose, which is more money for the City from ticket collection, which would automatically mean more funds in the budget for other purposes," concluded Jovanović.
Šapić is overjoyed
Šapić previously stated that he is satisfied with how the new public transport system works.
"In a month or two, we will come out with a six-month cross-section of the situation since the introduction of the new system and the decision to destroy the bad system that has been eating up our transportation for almost fifteen years." There will be many more new things, but the important thing is that we managed to change the ticket collection system, to make transportation cheaper, easier to pay for and more accessible to everyone, while having cleaner buses with air conditioners that work," said Šapić.
According to his opinion, today's transport is of better quality than it was.
"With the acquisition of new buses and trams and with all the measures we are implementing, I believe that in a year to a year and a half we can have one of the best transportation in this part of Europe, and we will not give up on that," said the mayor.
Čučković is a bit more specific
City manager Miroslav Čučkovuć recently went public with more specific data.
He cited data for June and July and that the citizens of Belgrade sent two million SMS messages.
"These are mostly one-day tickets. We have somewhere around 2.000 tickets that are sold daily at newsagents, we have approximately 2.200 payments per day that are released through the application. In the past, 200 paper tickets were sold per day, which means that now we have 10 times more. Plus, we have an increase in monthly salaries, plus these that companies pay to people, this means that the people of Belgrade reacted to this reform as we expected, they showed love for their city", said Čučković.
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