From 25 to 29 March, nearly 100 stations in Russia work public reception for the conservation and development of passenger rail transport in the long-distance and suburban trains.
OnFar East railway stations share held Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Tynda, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
The main objective of the action «Public Reception: Protect the train!» Is a public education campaign about the existing funding currently the federal budget-distance and suburban passenger services, plans of their state aid in the coming years, and the collection of signatures of the population in support of conservation and developmentRail passenger transport in the regions of Russia. Now required to develop integrated solutions (involving all the relevant ministries and agencies) in improving the mechanism of state regulation of tariffs, which would allow the state to order the scope and standards of social traffic for budgetary possibilities and interests of citizens, and carrier to plan their activities and development on the basis of volume of state orders.
Collecting signatures on a petition in support of passenger rail is an opportunity to draw the authorities\’ attention to the need to preserve the availability of transport in the region.
In addition, during the campaign specialists of «Federal Passenger Company» and commuter rail companies will be willing to answer all of the passengers emerging issues related to the transport of long-distance trains and suburban trains.
In addition, the official website of JSC «Russian Railways» placed a banner on the action «Public Reception: Save the train!». Technical possibilities to distribute Internet users on sites railways — branches of JSC «Russian Railways» to print addresses on the respective governors and presidential representatives in the federal districts. Print and fill out the Application Form, you will send it by mail to the appropriate administration (the address is on the site of the railway — branch of JSC «Russian Railways»).
Recall up to 2012 rail suburban transported more than 1 billion people and more than 116.5 million people — long distance.
The total amount of state support of passenger rail transport in 2013 is 39.8 billion rubles. Including:
— 25 billion rubles — subsidies to support passenger rail in 2013 to compensate for the rate (99% of the agreed value of the FTS of Russia) on the provision of infrastructure services in the implementation of commuter traffic. Despite the fact that this amount is not enough to fully compensate for falling from the preferential tariff revenues (projected deficit for 2013 is about 8 billion), in 2014 the Ministry of Finance of Russia plans to halve budget support suburban infrastructure (up to 12.5 billion rubles replacing the existing 25 billion) in 2015 — to 625 billion and total cessation of state support in the coming years. Thus, the entire financial responsibility for passenger commuter rail in the Russian Federation «lie» to regional budgets.
Given that regional budgets are limited in financial resources and can not completely compensate for the lost income AUC, many regions have resorted to every time already tested method to reduce their costs — reduce the amount of local trains (routes, frequency of trains plying and composite), increase rates for the population.
— 14.8 billion rubles — subsidies to compensate for lost income from the regulation of tariffs for transportation of passengers in reserved seats and general cars (instead of the required 36.3 billion rubles). In particular, 1.2 billion of that amount — subsidies that provide students travel long-distance trains at reduced rates. In part-time compensation from the Russian budget shortfall in income of JSC «Federal Passenger Company,» and in order to improve financial performance had considered various options to reduce the cost of passenger transportation and operating costs, including the optimization of the size of the movement distance trains and a reduction in non-profitable routes. So to optimize routes will be reduced about 235 unprofitable routes (sparsely-distance trains, unprofitable for JSC «FPC»), cut more than three thousand employees and other measures.
This radical reduction in state support for commuter and long-distance passenger rail to reduce its pricing and territorial availability.