Baku, Azerbaijan, June 24
By Fakhri Vakilov - Trend:
The Ministry of Transport of Uzbekistan is developing a special program to subsidize rail passenger traffic, Trend reports referring to Uzbek media.
“Passenger traffic is low profitable; moreover, somewhere they are unprofitable. To address this issue, a program of subsidizing passenger transportation is being developed. It will take a little more time,” the first deputy minister of transport of Uzbekistan, Ilkhom Mahkamov said during a press conference in Tashkent.
He stated that now the ministry conducts monitoring and compares the prices of tickets in the areas of domestic trains travel. “We have analyzed all our international routes and are considering to implement new prices. I think that within two weeks we will give a separate comment on the prices of train tickets,” he noted.
Nowadays, the railways of Uzbekistan are combined into a single network with total length of 7,500 kilometers.
During the years of independence, new railways with a length of over 2,500 kilometers were laid in the country, more than 1,100 kilometers of railways were reconstructed, and over 2,700 kilometers of steel trunk lines were completely electrified.
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