At a meeting of the Presidency of the Council of State, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that more than 10 billion Russians travel by public transport during the year.
“Every year in Russia <…> more than a billion [человек перевозится] in commuter rail transport,” he said.
According to him, buses, trolleybuses and trams carry more than 10 million Russians a year, while the metro transports 3 billion people a year.
“This is despite the fact that we have lived in the last decade <…> Putin stressed that there is an explosion in the increase in the number of private vehicles.
At the same time, he noticed that this trend is gradually decreasing and said that every year more and more citizens of the Russian Federation prefer to travel by public transport, which is faster, more affordable and cheaper.
On the eve, it was reported that Putin was on August 17. will hold a meeting The Presidium of the State Council will discuss with its members the development of public transport in the country.
Before Putin instructed government on the development of river transport.