In the Big Moscow will introduce a zonal pay

5 February 2019

Capital metro initiated the development of a new remuneration system in the zones

Capital metro held in December, the tender for the development of a new system analnoy payment for all public transport, including land, for which, however, are already in the zone pay A and B.
Today, the press service of the transport Department of Moscow has denied the information about the introduction of zonal pay in the metro. The head of the Department of transportation and development of road transport infrastructure of Moscow Maxim Liksutov spoke on this subject quite clearly: "the Transition to the payment calculation zones on existing infrastructure, the Moscow metro is not even considered. Any speculation on this issue have no Foundation". However, Mr. Liksutov said that the zone is included in the terms of reference of the new ticketing system, which leads the development of the capital underground, to integrate commuter rail and future lines of the Moscow Central diameters (IDC).

As in 2012, the capital's area increased by more than 2.5 times, it is inevitable there is an urgent need for new tariffs. According to him, the inclusion in the terms of reference zonal payment need to integrate commuter rail and future of the IDC, where there are zonal payment. He also noted that zones have ground transportation when traveling to and from these areas and Zelenograd. In addition, the new ticketing system will allow you to personalize the card "Troika", as well as create the opportunity to apply the latest contactless payment methods and validators.
Developers have to create a fare collection system to provide "support functions of zonal pricing".
The representative of the metro reported that the new system is designed for use on different types of public transport, including land, which already has two zone pay zone a (Moscow within Moscow and the Novomoskovsky administrative district) and area B (Troitskiy administrative district).
The documentation for the auction stated that the validators metro should work in the mode of "control of output to ensure zonal pricing" and "validation of the aisle area (without direction)".

PS Frankly, it is clear that "there is no free cakes", but nevertheless, the public transport system in Moscow is served the current authorities of the city as an "alternative to personal vehicles", so it is possible the unit cost of travel on public transport including metro raises reasonable fears. Because I have been that negative examples, such as (in the 1995-2011) the notorious head of the Moscow metro Dmitry Gayev. This is the very Dmitry Gaev (1951-2012), who single-handedly managed to restore the infamous Stalinist hymns (the lobby of the station Kurskaya), while arranging empty rename stations (Bitsa Park Novoyasenevsky), and another "hand" to run as in the budget (a number of abuses of this officer was investigated in 2010-11. on behalf of the Mayor Sobyanin, but ended only voluntary-compulsory resignation Gaeva), and in the pockets of ordinary passengers, for example, setting draconian terms of validity of the travel, so travel for 60 trips operated only 30 days, and who spent not of his problem. By the way, recently the validity of such 60-poezdochka travel again reduced from 90 to 45 days. Again, the "shadow Gayev" someone does not rest? I do not want to be so stingy that "efficiency" will prevail when you create a zonal system..