In all buses of the Mostransavto carrier in the Moscow Region, the possibility of paying for travel with the Troika card has become available. This was announced on Monday, December 27, by the press service of the regional ministry of transport.
Troyka’s fare payment has become available not only in buses with validators, but also in vehicles with mobile fare payment terminals, writes RIAMO.
We are talking about more than 4 thousand vehicles plying on 1.2 thousand city, suburban and intercity routes throughout the Moscow region, writes REGNUM.
The unification of ticket systems between Moscow and the region is a large-scale project of the authorities of the Moscow region and the capital together with Sberbank. According to the vice-governor of the Moscow Region Igor Treskov, since the launch of Troika, more than 4.3 million trips have been made in the buses of the Moscow Region, which is about 24 thousand operations a day. In addition, the introduced loyalty program has already allowed passengers to save 1.1 million rubles on fares.
Deputy Mayor of the capital for transport Maxim Liksutov said that next year it is planned to connect more than 9 thousand vehicles to the ticket system, and in the future – to introduce payment by Troika on all routes of the Moscow region, the Moscow city news agency notes.
“Every day, millions of passengers from the Moscow region come to the capital to study, work, on business. Therefore, of course, for them the possibility of paying for travel with a Troika card is familiar, profitable and convenient, “Moscow 24 quotes Liksutov.
It is clarified that the monthly savings of passengers when paying for travel by card is from 7 to 35%, and a year it can amount to more than 4.8 thousand rubles. As part of the scaling of the unified ticket system in the transport of the region, it is planned to distribute to passengers 5 thousand “Troeks” at the bus stations “Mostransavto”.
Source: IZ
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