In Kryvyi Rih, public transport will be free

The details of the innovation will be known after the project passes all regulatory procedures.

In Kryvyi Rih, as of May 1, 2021, public transport will be free. On Wednesday, December 23, write the First Kryvyi Rih.

“It is not yet known how much money from the city budget will be spent on free trips for citizens,” said Mayor Konstantin Pavlov.

At the same time Radio Liberty informs with reference to the press service of the mayor’s office that it will be possible to travel for free with the “Kryvyi Rih resident card”, special software will be developed for this.

In turn, the publication writes that the draft budget assumed that the abolition of tariffs on transport would cost the city 116 million hryvnia in 2021.

It is planned to introduce free rides in part from the first day of the new year. Therefore, on January 1, teachers, doctors, employees of social services, kindergartens and youth sports schools, who are subordinate to the city council, will travel for free on public transport. And this, as emphasized in the city hall, is more than 35 thousand residents of Kryvyi Rih.

Earlier it was reported that the cost of travel on some minibuses from the capital increased by hryvnia.

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