Riga public transport fare discounts will be reinstituted in the same amounts for all passenger categories from Monday, June 15
"Rīgas satiksme" informs that, pursuant to the decision of the Interim Administration of the Riga City Council of June 11, public transport fare discounts will be automatically reinstituted for all categories of passengers from Monday, June 15. While, taking into account national restrictions, and in order to prevent crowding, this year, on June 23 and June 24, public transport will not be free of charge.
The Interim Administration of the Riga City Council has reinstituted fare discounts pursuant to the Regulations No. 89 "On Fare Discounts in Public Transport Route Network of Riga City":
Free public transport
- Parents with many children registered in the Family Support Registry, who have six or more dependent children, persons permanently residing in long-term social care and social rehabilitation institutions of Riga, 1st - 12th grade students, politically repressed persons and members of the National Resistance Movement, intramural students of professional general education, vocational education or professional secondary education programs of professional education institutions, unemployed seniors and retired persons under 75 years of age, extramural students of general secondary education institutions aged below 19, Members of the Chernobyl accident elimination team who are disabled persons of I and II group, disabled persons of group II who have declared their residence within the administrative territory of the city of Riga, persons with disabilities below the age of 18, persons, who accompany a person of group I or a person with disability below the age of 18, minor orphans and abandoned children, persons aged above 75.
- The Interim Administration of the Riga City Council has introduced a new fare discounts application for 9th and 12th grade students and retired persons. As the emergency situation in the country has been revoked, the abovementioned two categories of pasengers can use the applicable discount of 100% as before – without any time limits and without having to register their trips
- The fare discounts in buses, trolleybuses and trams for pre-school aged children and employees of the State and the Municipal Police are kept unchanged.
Partial discount (for monthly travel cards or hourly tickets)
- Parents, who have three to five dependent children, employed seniority and old age pensioners, students, teachers of municipal educational institutions and technical employees, persons who have declared their residence or who own real property in Riga.
- Social workers, carers, health care workers and those involved in healthcare services, who work in health care institutions of Riga City Municipality under the Welfare Department of the Riga City Council. Please be reminded that for the duration of the emergency situation these categories of passengers received a fare discount of 100%, yet from June 15 these categories of passengers must take into account that free of charge travels are no longer applicable and they have to purchase a ticket.
Public transport fare discounts will be reinstituted automatically, yet, if there is a necessity to make changes in the status, etc., please visit any of the customer centres of "Rīgas satiksme".
Althought the situation in the country is stabilised, "Rīgas satiksme" calls on passenges to be responsible and take into account that several requirements set during the emergency situation are still applicable in public transport. Passengers are still required to wear a mouth and nose cover. Also, courtesy and mutual understanding will ensure a successful trip for everyone – when getting on or off the bus, do not cause unnecesary crowding, and, if possible, keep mutual distance.
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