Moscow authorities have stopped using entrance turnstiles on buses, trams and trolleybuses as of September 1. The approximately 15-year history of turnstile madness in the capital has ended on city routes, but it still poisons the lives of suburban train passengers, reminds our own correspondent Travel.ru.
Turnstiles in Moscow's ground public transport appeared at the beginning of the century as a way to combat fare evasion. They did allow for a temporary increase in revenue, but at the same time led to chronic mass delays in the movement of buses, trams and trolleybuses and contributed to a further outflow of passengers from public transport, an increase in motorization and, as a result, an increase in transport problems.
The city authorities did not immediately realize the harmfulness of this route, although attempts to remove the turnstiles had been made since 2010 - but for a long time they were unsuccessful. Before abandoning the turnstiles completely, experiments were conducted on tram routes in 2017, which yielded positive results in the form of a sharp increase in speeds and passenger traffic.
The problem still remains with the turnstiles on the Moscow suburban electric train lines – or rather, their imperfection and extremely slow operation. As a result, during rush hour, long queues form at many stations to exit, which can take up to 5-7 minutes (outside rush hour, these queues are slightly shorter). At the same time, there is no information that Russian Railways and its suburban subsidiary companies are going to solve this problem.
Source: travel.ru