Photo: FoNet/Ana Paunković"We only need to check the tickets so that the system registers us only on the field," says one controller. There are no validators on the buses. No one is being fined
Line number 16. Around 9.40:XNUMX this morning, about thirty passengers board the bus at the initial stop in the Belgrade Pavillions. There is no validator in the vehicle that they waited for fifteen minutes, unusually long for this line.
A group of five or six men and women enter after the passengers. It became clear that they were controllers when they took out the devices for checking tickets.
Everyone confused.
"What is it now?", asks one passenger. "How can I type the ticket when there are no these..." and points to the yellow bar on which the validator used to be, and now the black bar.
"Don't worry," a controller reassures the passengers, then explains: "We just need to check the tickets so that the system registers us as being on the field." You see, nothing takes away the money you have."
They don't go all over the bus. They don't check everyone in the vehicle. Several passengers take out their tickets, hold them against the machines. To those who have monthly tickets, the screen shows green, to those who have those that are topped up for time-limited rides, it shows red. No one gets punished.
Among the passengers is a reporter from "Vremena". We ask them what will happen to them and their work, they say they don't know.
"We are waiting for what the City and Šapić will decide. We are here until the end of the month and that's it," one of the conductors tells us as he sits down next to his colleague in an empty seat.
We ask them how citizens react when they see them and when they ask for their tickets, he says that there is no problem.
"It's easy to explain to them. But everything is clear to them", he answers. They got off at the station opposite "Ušća" and continued on.
Is this transportation free?
What is currently happening with public transport in the Serbian capital is probably known only by the mayor of Belgrade, Aleksandar Šapić, and his associates. But they haven't advertised on this topic in recent days.
The last thing citizens were told at the end of April was that until further notice, the old prices will apply, that is, the old prices will apply in May, regardless of the fact that the mayor announced new ones.
"Blic" announced that today Šapić will present a new system for charging city transport tickets, which will be valid from tomorrow
The company Kentkart, which was in charge of collecting tickets and with which the City of Belgrade terminated its contract, announced on Saturday that the validators started disappearing from the vehicles, but that it was not the whim of hooligans, but an organized removal.
As Nova.rs wrote, according to information based on a cross-section made a few weeks ago, according to unofficial information from "Kentkart", there are currently more than 90 million busplus cards active in Belgrade, with around 236 million dinars on them.
What will happen to the money that citizens have already paid for riding public transport is currently unknown.
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