Change routes. Public transport

Comfortable environment by the hands of Urbantin. Cancellation of minibuses, crooked tiles and future demolition August 17th, 2016

Tiles laid the favorite place for Muscovites to walk on roller skates and bicycles - in Luzhniki, on the embankment. Why, tell me, is there a tile here? Who had to destroy what is customary and necessary for Muscovites?

This is how it became

And that's how it was

"There will be no minibuses! Walk.
The Department of Transportation has canceled another 370 routes.

Remember how the Moscow authorities actively urged us to switch to public transport? It was under this slogan that in Moscow in 2012-2013 they began to introduce paid parking, fine car owners and evacuate cars. Then, three years ago, on the eve of the election of the mayor of Moscow, buses and a trolleybusWe went one after the other. I didn’t have time to leave the stop alone, as the next one approached ....

In three years, the situation has changed dramatically. Public transport was getting worse and worse. Back in May, the intervals on the routes increased noticeably. In our Northern District, passengers of routes No. 79m, 167m, 179m, 200m, 677m had problems. Commercial routes have been canceled and additional buses have not been introduced. Yes, and with bus routes, some kind of confusion began ...

Around the spring, at meetings with our candidate for the State Duma, Yulia Galyamina (more http://galiamina.ru/ #rec5556494 ) residents began to complain about the poor performance of public transport. “You stand for thirty minutes at the bus stop, but there is no bus and no. Then it turns out that the desired route was canceled, and now completely different, unfamiliar numbers go here. There are no announcements at bus stops,” people say.

And last Monday, the Department of Transportation simply took and canceled another 370 routes. That is, millions of passengers were left to fend for themselves. Many of these routes were non-alternative. To notify people in advance, as is customary with us, they simply did not bother. In the Khoroshevsky district, residents say, the minibus 435a to Belorusskaya was canceled. They are now waiting for a trolley bus for half an hour, risking being late for work.

The Department of Transport says that there are no plans to launch minibuses on those routes where buses or trolleybuses already run. That is, we are waiting for the queue, the crush and the long wait. It is impossible to find information on which minibuses have been canceled in our Northern District on the capital's portals since Monday - everything is for the comfort and convenience of residents. And this is the attitude of the mayor's office towards us .... "- writes the candidate for the State Duma from Yabloko, Yulia Galyamina.

Well, and for dessert, as always, fresh tile "Our street". Repaired. Simply gorgeous. We admire. And this is not a separate area, such rubbing is everywhere and everywhere.

Newspaper lane. There is no crowd here, it is generally quiet here, but where does this come from then? Everything is broken and crooked.

This is what a comfortable environment looks like through the eyes of Urbantine. Clean ponds. A deserted parade ground and a giant dummy of food. There is no food here now, there are now many, many tiles. Model of the tundra.

And, a little Tverskaya

Photo: Svetlana Grishina, Mike All, Olga Nezvetskaya, Sergey Sakov

The idea to streamline the work of minibuses in the capital is not new - the city authorities have long warned about the current changes. The head of the deptrans, commenting on the appearance in Moscow of new city minibuses operating under a contract, noted that the new blue minibuses “will operate only at city tariffs.

All of them will accept all benefits, all social cards. Officials say up to last day we tried to adjust the route network at the request of the citizens, because they understood that Muscovites could face difficulties.

As a result, it turned out that the load on the route network was planned incorrectly.

In addition, on the eve of the launch of the final stage of the urban land transport reform, on August 15, a downpour passed in the capital, which led to numerous flooding in the streets. Because of this, there were delays in traffic, almost 50 land transport routes had to change routes.

As a result, all the disadvantages of the old minibuses faded against the background of the fact that at the same time tens of thousands of passengers simply lost the opportunity to quickly move around the city. According to estimates of entrepreneurs interviewed by Gazeta.Ru, the ban could leave more than 10,000 people unemployed. Serious losses will also be incurred by auto companies that have been actively investing in expanding their business and are now forced to curtail their activities.

We expect the result: citizens are dissatisfied, thousands of drivers are left without work, city officials are hastily expanding transportation, and the order, which reduced the number of regular routes of small-capacity buses, is checking.

The check was launched after the deputy turned to the Moscow prosecutor. The parliamentarian asked the prosecutor to check the deptrans order for compliance with federal law. A letter with similar content was sent by the same deputy to the capital's mayor Sergei Sobyanin.

The press service of the Moscow prosecutor's office confirmed to Gazeta.Ru that an investigation into the facts set out in the deputy's request had begun.

“The little things that make up passenger comfort”

The President of the Moscow Transport Union, told Gazeta.Ru that since August 15, when the decree of metropolitan officials came into force, the number of minibuses in the city has decreased from 4.6 thousand to about 2.1 thousand. “After about 370 routes removed, entire areas were left without transport links, and people stand at bus stops for an hour,” says Sveshnikov.

The press service of the State Public Institution "Organizer of Transportation", which is responsible for the reform, does not agree with Sveshnikov. “Of the 481 routes that were served in the city by private companies, only 142 were original, the rest duplicated each other and the routes of SUE Mosgortrans or did not operate,” GKU told Gazeta.Ru. All 142 original routes remain - they are served by carriers that have concluded government contracts. Duplicate routes were also replaced, which were served by two or three carriers at the same time.

Officials also indicate that after the elimination of duplication, instead of 480, about 200 routes will operate in the capital.

The presence of dissatisfied citizens in the State Institution "Organizer of Transportation" does not deny and explains this complex adaptation to change: people are very conservative in choosing the routes of their trips - this is a habit that develops over the years, and it is not so easy to change it. In the meantime, they emphasize in the GKU, all Muscovites' appeals are promptly considered at a meeting of the city headquarters, which includes city departments and representatives of carrier companies.

“Citizens with limited mobility and passengers with wheelchairs can now comfortably enter the cabin using special ramps. All buses are new, equipped with air conditioners, voice notification of stops, a “creeping line”.

Transport strictly adheres to the schedule, this is monitored by our specialists online.

In addition, buses are displayed in the Yandex.Transport application: you no longer need to stand at the bus stop and wait, the arrival time of the transport is known in advance. These are the little things that make up the comfort of the passenger, ”summed up in the GKU.

City officials promise that by the end of the year about 2.5 thousand new buses will appear in Moscow, all issues will be removed by themselves, and the changes will ultimately benefit the city's residents. So, for the first time, beneficiaries can ride any transport using social cards. And the rest of the passengers can save an average of 35% of the annual fare: travel on a TAT ticket for 17 rubles. or one by one - for 22 rubles. Previously, the average fare in fixed-route taxis around the city was much higher - 35 rubles.

“If I were them, I would invalidate the order”

The GKU Gazeta.Ru was assured that all carriers were notified of the changes coming into force six months in advance, as required by law. However, the head of the Transport Union, Yuri Sveshnikov, is sure that the legislation was nevertheless violated.

“The liquidation of routes was illegally carried out by city officials, and in the signed order there is only a reference to the decision of some mysterious commission,” Sveshnikov says. According to him, federal law 220-FZ "On the organization of regular transportation of passengers by road" prescribes that, along with routes with regulated fares, there must be routes with unregulated ones. Deptrans also included in the new register only those routes on which carriers operate under contracts previously concluded with the city, and the rest refused to issue certificates for the right to operate routes.

The city does not recognize charges of violating the law.

“According to Federal Law No. 220, the authorized executive body has the right to establish, change or cancel municipal routes for regular transportation. In Moscow, the register of routes is formed by the Moscow Department of Transport. The right to close routes is provided for by Decree No. 643-PP and Decree No. 32-PP, the order was adopted by the Department of Transport within the competence and does not contradict the provisions of Federal Law No. 220-FZ, ”the department says.

Although the carriers are strongly critical of the order, they have not yet been able to win support. “Earlier, we also applied to, but we didn’t find violations there, although they are obvious: the number of carriers in Moscow decreased by about eight times in one day,” he says. The prosecutor's office, where Sveshnikov complained back in March 2016, also found no violations in the actions.

As a result, some carriers applied to the Moscow Arbitration Court.

Vladislav Tolstukhin, the owner of the transport company Transway, which was directly affected by the reform, notes that “there are no private carriers left in Moscow that set their own tariffs. Now only those who have a contract with the city and who receive a certain amount for the transport work performed are traveling,” he explains. Such contracts with the city authorities, according to Tolstukhin, are unprofitable for carriers. As a result, companies that have won contracts with the city do not fulfill the terms of the state contract in terms of the number of minibuses and other indicators, which leads to queues at bus stops.

Tolstukhin admits in a conversation with Gazeta.Ru that in a number of districts, the old minibuses familiar to citizens have not disappeared anywhere after August 15.

“For example, in Peredelkino, after the cancellation of the minibus, people walk 2 km to the nearest stop. This is fine? There are many examples. Therefore, we, and a number of other companies that are suing, violated this ban, did not remove the cars from the route and continue to work, ”says the businessman.

“If I were them, I would invalidate the order or somehow postpone its implementation,” he sums up, noting that he is “almost confident of victory” in court.

However, another carrier, which has agreed to work under the new conditions, sees advantages in the changes, which relate, among other things, to the safety of passengers.

"The new system will be adjusted"

In particular, the mode of operation of drivers was streamlined. “Previously, they were on flights from early morning until late at night and arrived at the park in a half-dead state,” the general director of the Gepart company told Gazeta.Ru. — Now our drivers work from 6.00 to 15.00. Then there's another shift."

“The commercial transportation market that existed in Moscow before was chaotic, unorganized,” he is sure. Minibuses regularly got into accidents, and for various reasons: the incompetence of drivers who were seized by a thirst for profit, the desire to earn from the carriers themselves, who did not monitor the technical condition of their vehicles, and the drivers themselves.

As for the situation with a long wait for transport in the peripheral areas of the city, then, according to Sultanov, the situation should level off very soon, it is possible that this will happen by the beginning of September.

"On the working group in deptrans all these points are considered. After difficulties arose, starting from August 19, we reduced the interval of movement, released more cars, and from August 26, all carriers are switching to the winter schedule. This means that rolling stock will be increased by another 10% on all routes, and the interval will naturally be reduced, especially during rush hour,” Sultanov noted.

“The reform still had to be carried out, because the bacchanalia that was before is simply unacceptable for developed countries,” says, in turn, the chairman of the Union of Passengers of Russia. - Now the system will be adjusted by the deptrans, we are in constant contact with them. I am sure that the problem with the lack of minibuses will be promptly resolved.”

Muscovites are actively sharing their emotions about the cancellation of minibuses in social networks.

"Big thanks" to the Department of Transport of Moscow from us, ordinary passengers. I went by minibus "301m" to the stop "Lilac Garden". Now I have to ride two buses. First you wait for the "760th", which runs irregularly (three can drive up at once with an interval of 1 minute), and then there will be no one for 30 minutes. And then transfer to another bus. This is an alternative, ”complains in social network"VKontakte" metropolitan passenger Elena Levkina.

“I used to have a bus and a minibus running from the metro. Now only the bus is jam-packed and every 30 minutes. It used to be 40 minutes from the door to work. Now it’s good if you get there in 1.5 hours, and you won’t be remembered anywhere, ”Kirill Ananiev is indignant.

“I’m now on the 443 bus from the River Station to Druzhby Avenue in Khimki. Although I need to Novokurkinskoe highway. But the minibus "662", which miraculously took me exactly where I needed, now does not go from the "River". A kind gentleman in a yellow-green vest explained: minibuses have been canceled since Monday. When I asked how to get from Rechnoy to Novokurkinskoye Highway, he shrugged his shoulders and said: “Look for detours. Until they come to an agreement there ... "And so I'm driving, and ahead of me is a traffic jam on Leningradka, which the 662nd has perfectly traveled around the Moscow Ring Road. Farewell, wasted time, ”another passenger is indignant.

“Minibuses ran every 5-7 minutes in the morning, and my girlfriend waited 35 minutes today. As a result, I went by taxi,” Alexander Dvizhnov is indignant, specifying that we are talking about the minibus “456m”. “This blue bus (like a minibus) rides like a turtle. Well, everything is not for people!” - Yulia Mukhoryamova echoes him in the same place.

Preparations for the land transport reform began in 2012. In April 2013, Moscow imposed a moratorium on the opening of new "commercial" routes. According to the decree of the Moscow government, new routes could appear only by order of the State Unitary Enterprise Mosgortrans. As a result, the number of "commercial" routes began to gradually decrease. In 2015 there were about 500 of them, and by 2016 there were less than 400 left.

On Monday, the Moscow Department of Transport published on its website the news that the reform of the surface transport of the capital is close to completion. The changes affected all districts of the capital, with the exception of TiNAO and ZelAO. Now the usual minibuses no longer exist, and all city tickets and social cards must be valid on all bus routes.

“Passengers can now easily distinguish a legal carrier. Buses of private traders of one - bright blue - color. There must be a validator in the cabin to pay for travel with city tickets. If the carrier does not offer such an opportunity, it operates illegally. Such companies often violate safety standards: they exceed the speed limit, maneuver dangerously on the road to save money, refuse passenger health insurance, and do not issue a ticket. Drivers of illegal carriers often do not observe the regime of work and rest, and before entering the line they do not undergo a medical examination. Inspection of transport is also carried out irregularly, which increases the risk of an accident, ”the Department of Transport quotes the words of the head of the State Institution “Organizer of Transportation” Sergey Dyakov.

In GKU "Organizer of Transportation" to the question "NI" about the lack of information for passengers about upcoming changes, we were told that today an additional information campaign is being carried out at large transport hubs.

“Employees of the State Public Institution “Organizer of Transportation” help passengers orient themselves and find an alternative transport stop. Employees of the GKU OP are noticeable in a large passenger flow, they are easy to recognize by their bright vests with the “Organizer of Transportation” patch, the press service of the department assured.

In addition, informational posters were placed at bus stops, the organization says.

However, judging by the opinions of the townspeople, there are ads and promoters not everywhere. Neither did the employees of NI, who tried to get to the editorial office this morning on the minibus 308m, which until recently followed from the Kuntsevskaya metro station, either.

26 days Moscow lives without minibuses. The years of Deptrans and Gorproekt attacks on this convenient transport ended with the complete victory of municipal transport over private transport.

I will not repeat my arguments for minibuses again today, because. in any case, only those who use public transport themselves and who respect the citizens can hear these arguments. I will just record today's disaster with public transport.

The problem with the bus is that for at least its minimum payback, it must be packed to capacity. Where the minibus departed once every fifteen minutes, buses will depart every half an hour, or even an hour. Just so as not to transport air corny. The number of complaints in social networks about the long wait for buses (after the cancellation of minibuses) goes beyond all reasonable limits. There are areas of the city, from which, in principle, now people get to work for hours.

And yet I am not writing in order to once again scold the Deptrans “geniuses”. And in order to maybe at least in one they canceled their endless stubbornness.

Talking about traffic jams. There are traffic jams that occur due to accidents, and there are traffic jams that occur every morning and every evening. Most often, such traffic jams are in areas that are not so important for passenger transportation. For example, one or two stations to the metro. Or at some intersection with the Moscow Ring Road. Those. in places where even passengers rarely get out or sit down. For minibuses, such traffic jams were not a problem. The driver asks the passengers "is everyone to the subway?" Everyone in the morning, of course, answers “yes” and the driver goes around the traffic jam. It was the mobility of minibuses that allowed them to carry more passengers per day than buses of the same route. And by the way, such a flexible form of public transport in itself is a fight against traffic jams. But what happened happened and now we have only buses, or mini-buses that are still rare, but also rigidly tied to the route (replacing convenient foreign-made minibuses).

And here is my proposal - to allow buses and mini-buses to bypass traffic jams, going beyond the route.

Yes, yes, in the old days, drivers and large regular buses went around traffic jams. But not now. Now trackers have been put on the buses.
Look at this photo. Previously, this could only be imagined in relation to trolleybuses and trams.

Yes, there is an accident ahead. And yes, the buses stand stupidly and wait until it resolves there. Not a single bus dared to leave the route in order to avoid the accident ahead. Thanks to the geniuses of urbanism, buses are now lining up in such queues, although it seemed to us that "not a tram - it will go around."

Raise your hands if you think it's more convenient for passengers.

“This was not the case with minibuses!”
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I have been arguing with those who have urbanized our city half to death for a long time. So I know their argument - "TRANSPORT APP!". The idea is that you look at the transport application, see how the transport is going and leave the house exactly at the moment when your bus / trolleybus / tram arrives. Let's leave it up to the conscience of urbanites what to do for those who arrive at the bus stop, leaving the metro or train (and this is a good three-thirds of the passenger traffic). Let's imagine that we really want to use the application, according to which buses flutter like a bee and sting stops almost every ten minutes.

So, late evening of an autumn day. I'm standing at the bus stop and looking at the excellent official city transport application. I'm waiting for the bus 591. Now it has already appeared at the turn. Here he is already approaching the stop ... but stop. There is no bus. I am shocked and immediately cut the video recording on the phone screen. Next, look carefully for yourself, follow the ghost bus number 591

https://youtu.be/y_9pM27VDas

It's beautifully gone, isn't it?

I don't know what it was. Maybe the routes are full of ghost buses so that Sobyanin is shown how fun and dense public transport is on the roads of the capital. Maybe this is not a deception of officials, but just an application glitch. So be it.
I only know that at the moment when I was filming the video, I was waiting for transport not for 15 minutes, as usual, when minibuses were running, but for half an hour. And for sure, I could sit in a minibus, but now I have to not only stand in traffic jams, but literally stand. And I would be fine, but this also applies to the elderly and all passengers now.

Summary.
I do not believe that Deptrans will return minibuses. It is foolish to return to the streets vehicles that did not need to be purchased by the city and which brought profit to the city with taxes.
But I hope that at least the deptrans workers will allow public transport to bypass traffic jams and still put things in order in their application. It would be equally desirable, since the minibuses have already been removed, to increase the traffic intensity and the number of routes.