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Fri, May 25 2012
All-night public transport in Sofia will be discontinued
Photo: Georgi Kozhuharov
Round-the-clock transportation in Sofia will be stopped. The three experimental bus lines 605A, 606B and 607C, which were launched earlier this year will be discontinued on October 31 2009, the Sofia City Council has decided, Dnevnik daily said on October 21 2009.
The bus lines will be stopped because the operation is not profitable. According to Urban Mobility Centre data, the buses are used by an average of 94 passengers a night.
Assuming that everyone bought a ticket, that means all the lines on average would yield 94 leva, while keeping the bus lines going costs 1212 leva, resulting in a loss of 1118 leva.
The wages for the inspectors alone over the course of three months, employed twice a week, amount to 3806 leva, Dnevnik has said.
The three night buses, which will operate until the end of the month, are 605A, from Obelya to Druzhba, 606B, from Levski G until Ovcha Kupel and 607C, from Lyulin 3 until Mladost 4.
This was the second time that Sofia Municipality attempted to launch night transport in the capital city. Previously, bus line 94 was inaugurated on October 14 2008 to serve the route between Sofia City Centre with Studenski Grad. That was closed down because it lost money.
The bus lines will be stopped because the operation is not profitable. According to Urban Mobility Centre data, the buses are used by an average of 94 passengers a night.
Assuming that everyone bought a ticket, that means all the lines on average would yield 94 leva, while keeping the bus lines going costs 1212 leva, resulting in a loss of 1118 leva.
The wages for the inspectors alone over the course of three months, employed twice a week, amount to 3806 leva, Dnevnik has said.
The three night buses, which will operate until the end of the month, are 605A, from Obelya to Druzhba, 606B, from Levski G until Ovcha Kupel and 607C, from Lyulin 3 until Mladost 4.
This was the second time that Sofia Municipality attempted to launch night transport in the capital city. Previously, bus line 94 was inaugurated on October 14 2008 to serve the route between Sofia City Centre with Studenski Grad. That was closed down because it lost money.
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I think that most of the people just don't know exactly where to catch those buses and exactly when and that's the reason for the non profitable situation . Nobody wants to wait on some bus stop for an hour just to find that that's not the bus stop where one of the three buses pass. That's why people prefer taxis. If people thought that they could really rely on the public transport at night there would be much more passengers which would mean more money and a profit from the night buses. That's just my opinion.
Pity - that's why we call it a state, and not a company... it is about the safety and comfort of those 1200 passengers per year, not the 10,000 that the state will lose.