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Photo: FoNetFor more than ten years, the GSP has put an enormous burden on the city budget. That company is a loser, ticket collection in Belgrade is non-existent, there is a 15 to 20 percent surplus of employees, and a shortage of drivers. The problem persists, and no city government has been able to solve it for decades
In the last few years, the public transport in the capital, it's true, has not come close to the horror of the nineties in terms of (lack of) quality, but it is getting worse. Again, it is not rare that in the morning you simply can't get on the bus because of the crowd (admittedly, there are no funny advertisements for reducing body weight), or there is no transportation for 20-30 minutes (there are three buses at once), or "something" comes up that is already a long time ago, a place in a museum and not on the streets, or during the summer, at 40 degrees, a bus arrives with heating...
Also, during the last months and years, we learned from former drivers of the Belgrade City Transport Company (GSP) through the media that the vast majority of vehicles on the streets are defective, that drivers are forced to work multiple shifts in order to earn a decent amount at the end of the month...
From time to time, there are news about a bus suddenly catching fire, either while driving or in the parking lot, that several drivers lost control of the vehicle through no fault of their own, and the buses suddenly accelerated and crashed into a wall or an overpass. It is visible to everyone that retired drivers are increasingly "longing" some city lines, which also indicates a shortage of drivers.
And those are "only" driving problems...
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