Population to learn about new transport tariffs from drivers

The Tariff (Price) Council reviewed on September 5th, the fare on some suburban bus routes in the city of Baku. However, oddly enough, the council did not inform about this decision, and the public became aware of the new transport fares from drivers.

According to the decision of the vehicle, which came to the 6th of September, the number of bus routes extending from 15 to 25 kilometers, inclusive increased from 45 to 53. The fare on these buses is set at 25 gepiks. If you have previously fare in 11 routes was 35 gepiks (cycle length of the route up to 40 km), from the 5th of September this list included two more routes (100, 107, 126, 136, 141, 149, 157, 172, 194, 196, 197, 200, 212). Passengers began to pay 50 gepiks still on the same routes, and now so much worth is the drive in three routes (101, 164 and 171).

There is good news for passengers - if they had previously paid 30 gepiks on 20 routes (25-30 km), now 5 routes have been excluded from the list.

According to the "Regulations of the Tariff Council" of 26 December 2005, as the secretariat TC is also correct and timely information to the public through the media about the importance, purpose and possible consequences in the sphere of state regulation of prices.

The head of the press service of the Ministry of Economy and Industry (head of this department chairs the TC) Abbas Aliyev told one of the sites that the decision to revise the tariffs for passage in the bus routes in the city of Baku due to the change in the length of some routes.

Earlier TC revised fares on the shuttle in May 2013. --08B--