The Tariff Commission proposes to increase the bus fare

"City bus fare – there is a progress!" – Volodymyr Kozun, the head of the Uzhgorod ATP-12107, wrote that enthusiastically in the group “Uzhgorod” on Facebook, commenting on the meeting of the City Interdepartmental Commission on the Implementation of the State Price Policy on increase of the fare for city transportation to 5 hryvnias. Yesterday, we  wrote 

about this possibility, and today, at the meeting of the tariff commission at the city executive committee, the majority voted for the decision to approve the city bus fare at 5 UAH. The draft decision on the approval of the ticket price must be made public on the city hall’s site and considered at the meeting of the executive committee not before March. The meeting was attended by all the carriers of the city.

Kozun, as one of the carriers, tried to explain why the fare is rising.

"Since the submission of calculations, the cost of diesel fuel has increased by 7%, gas – by 4%. Now the public will have more than a month to discuss this draft decision. I think that passengers should understand carriers. There is no other way out to maintain this kind of services. This year, we will have electronic ticket, in the following year – personalized compensation to privileged persons for the cost of fare. But now we are forced to increase the tariff. "

In turn, the city community have the opportunity to express their complaints regarding the quality of services that have not improved; inadequate state of buses; drivers’ behavior that is far from noble, and so on.