Passenger carriages by metro does not reach the indices of 2009

In the first half of 2013, the revenues of the Baku Metro  on passenger carriages accounted for 21,715,200 manat,  by  4.8% more than  in the same period last year; passenger carriages by  metro increased only by 4.4%.

According to the State Statistics Committee (SSC),  over first six months of the year, the cost  for metro increased by +24.1% , and amounted to 57 844.800 manat.

According to the  Metro Office, in January-June of the current year  the Baku Metro transported 104.2 million passengers.

Over first eight months of this year 133.8 million passengers  used metro, by 7.1 million or 5.6 % more than in the comparable period of 2012.

After the increase of fares in metro in October 2009, from five  to 15 gepik, subway management  began to report  drop of  passenger  flow.  Thus, according to official data, in 2010 passenger  flow  in  metro fell by  12.2%. If in 2009  it totaled 17,175,000  people a month, in  2012- 16.300,000 million, and in 2013 - 16,731,000.

In 2008-2013 state budget allocated from the state budget of 1.2 billion, including AZN 390 million in 2013 for the construction of new stations and the reconstruction of hallways and escalators and other facilities of Baku Metro. Over these three new stations have been put into  operation. Total of  23 stations serve passengers.  It is planned to put two more stations into operation  in early 2014. --08B--