Photo: TanjugStarting this month, Belgrade public transport vehicles are not painted with advertisements, but are either yellow or red, and soon, due to this type of GSP improvement, passengers will also have to be careful what they do.
Mayor Aleksandar Šapić called public transport a cancer-wound of the capital, and began to treat it by standardizing the appearance of GSP vehicles and educating passengers.
From this month, there are no more advertisements on the vehicles, and they will all be either red or yellow, so that the capital's public transport does not look like "Mickey's party", said the mayor.
Apart from aesthetics, Šapić stated that advertising on GSP vehicles is an almost imperceptible profit for Belgrade's coffers, and specified that advertisements on all buses, trolleybuses and trams cost as much as 30 billboards in the capital.
According to Šapić's announcement, 100 new gas-powered buses should be expected at the beginning of November, and by then, he announced, the gas station should also be ready so that buses do not arrive before the station is finished.
Somehow at that time, the passengers will also have to change. First of all, they should buy tickets and enter only one door, the one near the driver, and exit through the others.
This same rule was introduced when Dragan Đilas was mayor and - it did not take effect. His current successor, Šapić, is now referring to Novi Sad, where such a rule has been enforced for years without problems, and he sees no reason for it to be the same in the capital.
Passengers will be assisted by controllers in acquiring this second habit, buying a ticket. Šapić announced that before that, they themselves will be instructed to change their behavior, and that in some future period, until the passengers get used to it, they should not be strict with them, but just remind them that the ride is not free and just show them where it is validator to validate the ticket.
"People, if they see that we are improving the quality of service, that we are saving money and that we are fighting against those who would not change anything in the previous 12 years, I am sure, and maybe I am completely crazy, that people will start buying tickets themselves and order will be brought to public transport."
"We need to fix ourselves in order to ask the citizens to fix themselves and start paying for a service that should be of high quality," concluded the mayor of Belgrade.
S.Ć./Politika
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