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Metropolitan
Public Conveyances Co. Ltd., Sofia, through its Revenues Realization
Centre, presents you its
updated brochure of conditions of travelling by the public conveyances in Sofia.
IN
CONNECTION WITH THE INCREASE IN THE TRAFFIC OF PASSENGERS TOWARDS ILIYANTSI
GOODS MARKET, TRAMWAY TRANSPORT DIVISION WILL ESTABLISH A NEW TRAMWAY 13
AS OF 15 DECEMBER 2004 UNTIL 31 DECEMBER 2004, INCLUSIVE, OF A ROUTE FROM
ORLANDOVTSI RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT THROUGH THE CENTRAL RAILWAY STATION TO ELPROMENERGO
HEAVY-CURRENT WORKS.
Under
the terms of THE ORDINANCE ABOUT THE TRANSPORTATION OF PASSENGERS AND CONDITIONS
OF TRAVELLING BY THE PUBLIC CONVEYANCES ON THE TERRITORY OF METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY,
Article 42 (1), Section 4, by proposal of the Manager of Metropolitan Public
Conveyances Co. Ltd., Sofia, and by
order of the Mayor of Sofia, Mr. Stefan Sofiyanski, schoolchildren and university
students shall have a discount on the prices of their passes to the whole
metropolitan transportation network for the period from 10 to 31 December
2004, inclusive. The discount shall be for the holidays of Christmastide
and New Year, as indicated hereinafter:
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A one-month pass to all
lines shall cost 15 levs, its normal price being 17 levs,
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A three-month pass to
all lines shall cost 45 instead of 51 levs,
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A six-month pass to all
lines shall cost 85 instead of 102 levs.
On
20 September 2004, the Public Urban Transport Center of Traffic Coordination
and Control and Safety moved house to the new building at 42, Todor Aleksandrov
Blvd., at the east exit of Opalchenska Station of the Underground. The Center
was heretofore on the last storey
of the building in which Sofia Shop was some years ago.
The technical equipment of the new building is brand-new.
The Public Urban Transport Center of Traffic Coordination and Control
and Safety permanently receives information, some of it through a GPS system
introduced in the metropolitan electric transport, on the whole state of and
changes in the transportation process in the public metropolitan conveyances,
and imposes through its chief traffic controller all the actions necessary
for coordinating and regulating the transportation.
The GPS system has so far been introduced in
the tram and trolley bus transport, as well as in two bus lines.
It has been envisaged to include all the buses
of the public metropolitan transport into the system.
Through its information center, the Public Urban
Transport Center of Traffic Coordination and Control and Safety provides information
on all questions about the state of the public conveyances traffic and any
diversions from or violations of the traffic rules and requirements.
Metropolitan
Public Conveyances Co. Ltd., Sofia, through its Revenues Realization
Centre, presents you its
updated brochure of conditions of travelling by the public conveyances in Sofia.
In connection with
a number of enquiries about the heating regime in the metropolitan public
conveyances we have published the order of METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY:
ORDER
RD-09-82/13.01.2004
“In order to establish a regime of switching
on the heating in the public conveyances and to control the consumption of
fuels and electric power, based on Article 22, Paragraph 2 of Ordinance 3
of 25 September of the Ministry of Transport, about the consumption of automobile
liquid fuels and lubricants, and based on Article 44, Paragraph 2 of the Local
Self-Governing and Administration Act,
I
ORDER THAT:
- The heating in all buses, tramcars
and trolley buses that serve lines shall be switched on at ambient air temperature
lower than 3º C.
- Metropolitan
Public Conveyances Co. Ltd., Sofia, in the person of the chief dispatcher
at the Traffic Safety Coordination and Control
Centre, shall order the
dispatchers of bus, tramcar and trolley bus traffic to switch on the heating
after having taken from the weather station the weather forecast of the
temperatures expected on the following day.
- The time of giving the relevant
instructions shall be determined until 2:00 o’clock a.m. for the morning
rush hour, and until 12:00 o’clock at noon for the afternoon rush hour.
- The dispatchers of bus, tramcar
and trolley bus traffic shall order the switching-on of the heating in all
depots and garages, and each such order shall be written in their orderbooks.
- The obligatory minimum time of
heating in all public conveyances shall be:
● In the morning
– from 5:00 h. to 10:00 h.
● In the afternoon
– from 16:00 h. to 21:00 h.
- At temperatures lower than –10º
C, by explicit order the heating in the
conveyances shall be switched on for the rest of their working hours.
- Staff cars shall be warmed at work
from 19:00 h. to 6:00 h.
- The time when the heaters have
worked shall be recorded in the way-bill.
The
heating season shall begin on 1 November 2003 and shall last until 31 March
2004.
The
present order shall be enacted as of 15 January 2004.
I
assign the control over the implementation of the present order to the Manager
of Metropolitan Public Conveyances Co. Ltd., Sofia;
copies of it must be submitted to the Chief Executives of Metropolitan Electrotransport
Inc., Metropolitan Autotransport Inc., Eridatrans Ltd., Karat-C Inc., Union
Trade Company Ltd., International Transportation Company Ltd., SIBBUS Ltd.,
Rimessa 99 Individual Co. Ltd.,
and to the Manager of Traffic Safety Coordination and Control
Centre of Metropolitan Public
Conveyances Co. Ltd., Sofia, for implementation.
MAYOR OF METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY:
/Stefan Sofiyanski/
In connection with Decision 53 in Protocol 53/26.05.2003 of Metropolitan Municipal
Council, new prices of passes to the metropolitan public conveyances shall
be established for studying persons as follows:
1. A monthly student’s pass of 3.50 levs to one optional route and one of Bus
Lines 280 and 94;
2. A monthly student’s pass of 4.50 levs to two optional routes;
3. A monthly student’s pass of 10.00 levs to all routes;
4. A quarterly student’s pass of 30 levs to all routes;
5. A half-year student’s pass of 60 levs to all routes;
6. A monthly pupil’s pass of 3.50 levs to one route;
7.
A monthly pupil’s pass of 4.50 to two routes;
8. A monthly pupil’s pass of 10.00 levs to all routes;
9. A quarterly pupil’s pass of 30 levs to all routes;
10. A half-year pupil’s pass of 60 levs to all routes.
There shall be no change in the rest of the passes for studying persons.
Based on a decision of Metropolitan Municipal Council, made at the session
of 26 May 2003, and Order RD-09—1012/28.05.2003 of Metropolitan Municipal
Government:
1.
As of 2 June 2003, the movement along the routes of the metropolitan
public conveyances shall be restored as it was until 1 April 2003.
2.
In order to put the transportation capacity of the metropolitan public
conveyances in accordance with the traffic of passengers in the summer season,
some of the routes shall be serviced according to their summer timetables as
of 2 June 2003:
2.1.
Tramways 3,7,8,10 and 14,
2.2.
Trolleybus Line 11,
2.3.
Bus Lines 11,60,73,84,90,204,306,310,313 and 604.
Based on Order RD-09-796/25.04.2003 of Metropolitan Municipal Government,
the route of Bus Line 54 A shall be partially changed, as of 1 May
2003, from Slivnitsa Blvd., along Dobrinova Skala Str., to the turnaround
for Bus Lines 111 and 309, in Lyulin 1-2 Housing Estate. The line number shall
be changed from 54 A to 53. The busses moving along Line 53
shall be stopping in the new segment of their route at the existing stops
of Bus Lines 81 and 82, which shall be marked.
In pursuance of Article 42, Paragraphs 3 and 5 of the Ordinance about
THE REGULATION FOR PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION AND TERMS FOR TRAVELING ON THE
PUBLIC TRANSPORT ON THE TERRITORY OF THE SOFIA MUNICIPALITY
on the Territory of Metropolitan Municipality, adopted by Decision of the
Metropolitan Municipal Council on 24 March 2003.
1.
A person who has purchased preference passes for schoolchildren and
university students, of a total value of 790 (seven hundred and ninety) levs,
is given a free, one-month civil pass to the whole metropolitan transportation
network, and if their total sum exceeds 790 levs – there is a 5% discount
on this total price. The passes are issued while keeping all the requirements
in the Ordinance about the Transportation of Passengers and Conditions of
Travelling by the Public Conveyances on the Territory of Metropolitan Municipality.
2.
When companies purchase civil passes by paying to a bank account with
no right of refunding, there is a discount of:
- 2% of the sum, for over 50 passes;
- 3% of the sum, for over 150 passes.
Metropolitan Public
Conveyances Co. Ltd.
has changed the prices of single tickets for traveling from Sofia to the mountains
of Vitosha and Lyulin, as of 1 April 2003, as follows:
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for
Fast Bus Lines 261 and 266:
1.
Bus Line 261 – Ovcha Koupel (Sheep Bath) Housing Estate - Zlatni Mostove
(Golden Bridges) Place– 2.00 levs
2.
Bus Line 266 – Hladilnika (The Refrigerator) H.E. – The Moreni (The Moraines)
Hotel 2.00 levs.
3.
A return ticket costs 3.00 levs.
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for Bus Lines 61,66 and 103
1.
Bus Line 61 - Ovcha Koupel (Sheep Bath) Housing Estate - Zlatni
Mostove (Golden Bridges) Place – 2.00 levs and
a one-way travelling charge, for the distances between non-terminal stops, according
to a tariff.
2.
Bus Line 66 - Hladilnika (The Refrigerator) H.E. – The Moreni – (The
Moraines) Hotel - 2.00 levs and a one-way travelling
charge, for the distances between non-terminal stops, according to a tariff.
3.
Bus Line 103 – Ovcha Koupel (Sheep Bath) Housing Estate –
Lyulin Mountain - 1.00 lev and a one-way travelling
charge, for the
distances between non-terminal stops, according to a tariff.
Tickets to the above destinations will be available at the terminals of Ovcha
Koupel and Hladilnika.
In pursuance of Decision of the Metropolitan Municipal Council of 24 March
2003, on changing the charge of a one-way travelling by the metropolitan public
conveyances: from 1 April 2003 to 30 April 2003 the Revenues Realization
Centre Marketing Agents Unit, at 84, Knyaghinya Maria-Louisa Blvd., will provide
a possibility for citizens, enterprises and companies to change their not
used tickets (over 10 pieces) of 0.40 levs. The change will be made according
to the value of the delivered numbers of tickets.
In connection with the shortage of funds, Decision 5 of Protocol 50/24.03.2003
of the Metropolitan Municipal Council and based on Article 44, Paragraph 2
of the Local Self-governing and Administration Act, as of 1 April 2003,
a variable regime of work has been adopted for the metropolitan public conveyances
– the initial time of departure from the first terminal being 5:30 a. m.
and final time of departure from the end terminal towards the city center
not earlier than 11:00 p. m.
NEW
PUBLIC-TRANSPORT PASSES BUREAUS
A public-transport passes bureau was established
on 18 February 2003 in the Central Covered Market. Every week, there will
be a lottery with the numbers of the passes issued to university students
and retired people.
A
public-transport passes bureau was established on 4 February 2003 in the pedestrian
underpass next to St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia. Those who have
purchased a pass of a pupil or university student, of a special mark, can
use the privilege “Two with one ticket” for going to the Yalta Cinema.
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the new kind of
TICKET
OF SEGMENTS FOR 5 TRIPS
The price of the ticket of segments
for 5 trips is 1.75 levs.
The
new ticket reduces the single-trip fare down to 0.35 levs,
with
no restriction in the time of using it.
THE
TICKET CONSISTS OF 5 SINGLE-TRIP SEGMENTS OF THE SAME NUMBER
AND
CAN BE USED BY ONE PASSENGER ONLY.
Punching the ticket segments, on public conveyances,
does payment. For each following trip the already punched segment
that has remained from the previous trip must be torn off and the
next one must be punched.
CHECKING THE VALIDITY OF A TICKET OF 5 SINGLE-TRIP
SEGMENTS
A paying passenger is the one who has punched his/her
ordinal, unused segment of his/her ticket at getting on the public
conveyance. The current-trip segment is valid provided that Segment
5 (the bearer) of the same number and price marked on it is
presented.
All 5 segments of the ticket are of the same number.
A passenger who has presented the current-trip segment, of the punch
pattern of the public conveyance, with Segment 5 (the
bearer) but of different numbers is considered a passenger of irregular
transport document, and will be subjected to sanction.
Do not use segments left by another
passenger!
At check, inspectors compare whether the segment used
for the current trip corresponds to Segment 5 (the bearer)
possessed by the passenger. The inspector tears off a stub inscribed
“counterfoil” and returns the rest of the segment to the passenger,
who keeps it until he/she has got off the public conveyance, thus
being able and obliged to present it at a repeated check, together
with Segment 5.
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THE SERVICE
KNOWN AS “AUTOMATED SYSTEM OF CHARGING THE PASSENGERS IN THE PUBLIC TRANSPORT
IN SOFIA ON THE PRINCIPLE OF CONTACT-FREE SMART CARS" HAS BEEN RENDERED
SINCE 6 SEPTEMBER 2001.
Caring
for the convenience of its passengers, Sofia Public Transport Company
- Holdihg EAD has experimentally adopted a new traveling-charge system.
The experiment
has been carried out on Bus Line 66. Payment is done by punching a
ticket bought as from the driver so from a coin-operated machine on
the bus.
PASSENGERS WHO BUY ELECTRONIC
CARDS SHALL PAY LOWER PRICES.
THE ELECTRONIC CARDS SHALL BE
FREE OF CHARGE FOR THE DURATION OF THE EXPERIMENT.
The
electronic card reports the trip as it is approached to the charging
device on the public conveyance once, as its holder gets on it and
again, as he/she gets off it. The distance to approach the card to
should not exceed 5 centimetres. A sum that is equal to the fare for
the distance you have really traveled is deducted from the total value
of the card. By the electronic card your trip can be quickly, reliably
and easily paid for.
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The
electronic card shall be free of charge for the duration of the experiment
on Bus Line 66. It can be received against a 2-lev deposit.
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The
electronic card is issued, charged, and recharged at the bureau
at the initial stop of Bus 66, in Hladilnika (The Refrigerator)
Residential District.
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The
electronic card can be charged and recharged to a sum at your desire,
not lower than the fare for traveling from the initial to the end
stop on the route.
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The
electronic card expiry date is the end of the experiment period.
After this end, the sums in the card that will not have been spent
shall be refunded.
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With
the electronic card, the trip fares shall be by 10% lower than those
for travelling with a ticket..
WAY OF CHARGING FARES
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As soon as one gets on the bus, the electronic card
must be approached to the reader of any of the charging devices,
to a distance not longer than 5 cm. The sum registered is in accordance
with the fare for travelling to the end stop on the route. Just
before getting off, the card must again be approached to the reader,
for the purpose of refunding the sum equal to the fare for the not
travelled part of the route.
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The correct functioning of the electronic card is
confirmed by a green light signal.
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The incorrect functioning of the electronic card is
reported by a red light signal.
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The charging device signalizes for the lack of sum
in the card. In such a case, the electronic card must be recharged.
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There is a possibility for checking the current amount
of the sum in the electronic card. Such a check can be had by means
of the charging device, by pressing the BALANCE button and approaching
the card to the reader of the device.
CHARGING THE TRANSPORTATION OF ACCOMPANYING
PERSONS, LUGGAGE, AND DOMESTIC DOGS WHILE USING THE ELECTRONIC CARD
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The transportation of a piece of luggage of dimensions
exceeding 60/40/40 cm, or a domestic dog, shall be charged by selecting
the corresponding button, for the same part of the route and to
the same fare as the holder of the electronic card.
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The cardholder can as well pay for the transportation
of the persons who accompany him/her, for the same route part, the
same fare as the one he/she pays for him/herself.
CHECKING THE VALIDITY OF ELECTRONIC CARDS
Inspectors are equipped with special devices that
check the validity of electronic cards.
SCHEDULES OF FARES FOR TRAVELLING WHILE USING
A TICKET AND AN ELECTRONIC CARD ON BUS LINE 66
Prices of tickets, in levs.
Hladilnika
(The Refrigerator Residential District)
0.40
Dragalevtsi Res. District
0.50
0.20 Vodenitsata
(the Mill)
0.60
0.20 0.20
Lifta (the Cableway)
0.80
0.40 0.30
0.30 Manastira
(the Monastery)
1.20
0.80 0.70
0.70 0.40
Zaslona (the Penthouse)
1.30
1.00 0.90
0.80 0.50
0.20 Gorski Dom
(Forest Lodge)
1.50
1.20 1.10
1.00 0.80
0.40 0.20
the Prostor Hotel
1.60
1.30 1.20
1.20 0.90
0.50 0.30
0.20 the Moreni Hotel
Fares for travelling while using an electronic
card, in levs
Hladilnika
0.36
Dragalevtsi
0.45
0.18 Vodenitsata
0.54
0.18 0.18
Lifta
0.72
0.36 0.27
0.27 Manastira
1.08
0.72 0.63
0.63 0.36
Zaslona
1.17
0.90 0.81
0.72 0.45
0.18 Gorski Dom
1.35
1.08 0.99
0.90 0.72
0.36 0.18
the Prostor Hotel
1.44
1.17 1.08
1.08 0.81
0.45 0.27
0.18 the Moreni
Hotel
The electronic card discounts the ticket prices
by 10%.
Timetable
of Bus Line 66
Hladilnika
Residential District – the Moreni Hotel – Hladilnika Res. District
Hladilnika
Res. District – The Moreni Hotel
Time
of departure Time of departure
On
workdays 7:50
8:50
9:50
10:50
15:45
17:00
17:50
18:45
On
holidays 7:50
8:45
8:55
9:55
9:55 11:05
10:55
12:55
12:05
14:50
14:20
15:50
15:55
16:55
16:55
17:50
17:55
18:50
19:45
20:36
Electronic
cards for travelling on Bus Line 66 are available at our bureau
in Sofia, Hladilnika Res. District, the initial stop of Bus 66.
Information
You
can receive detailed information about the new system of payment
from The Income Revenues Collection Centre (CRP) under Sofia
Public Transport Company - Holdihg EAD,
telephone
+359(2) 312-42-42,
or
from our information centre, telephone +359(2) 987-71-87.
We
hope that this modern system of paying for your travelling will
become convenient to you.
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