36 million transport cards sold in Moscow within 8 years

In his blog, the Mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin shared the success of the Troika card project and some other popular services of Moscow Metro.

36 million transport cards have been sold since 2013 when smart card Troika was introduced, according to Mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin who published a post titled Convenient and practical. New metro services in his personal blog.

15-20 minutes in the morning queue at the ticket office was once the norm for Moscow Metro. Now ticket vending machines and the Troika card have become queue killers. Since 8 years, 36 million cards have been sold, with their help over 90% of trips on the metro are made, writes Sergei Sobyanin.

In addition, in his blog, the Mayor of Moscow spoke in detail about other popular services of Moscow Metro, such as Passenger Mobility Service, sale of SIM cards, Books in the Metro project and information screens. According to the mayor, the latter are installed in about 4 thousand cars - this is more than 17.7 thousand media screens. By 2023, this number will grow to 6 thousand, which is 87% of the total number of operated metro cars.

Sergei Sobyanin also touched upon music in Moscow Metro, noting that it has been present at least since 1992 and was legalized in 2016. Before the pandemic, about 90 thousand concerts took place in the crossings and lobbies of the stations.