One group of ticket collectors can fine 15 students every morning
Students keep showing their student IDs out of habit to avoid fines.
I notice a cadet of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on bus #19. The conductor is checking everyone's tickets but does not reach the girl due to a quarrel at the back of the bus. Then she says that there are no problems with cadets because they always pay the fare.
She notes that her daughter studies at Belarusian State University of Physical Culture and always asks her to buy her a season ticket because she meets ticket collectors quite often.
The cadet I met near the bus stop had bought her decade ticket for 21 thousand roubles. She bought it herself because "the Academy does not help pay the fare".
Ticket collectors get on the bus all of a sudden. Three students show their tickets. One of the ticket collectors says that they manage to fine up to 15 students every morning. Not bad!
"Agency Minsktrans" assures that no special raids are organized to fine students. They use public transport everywhere:
"Agency Minsktrans": “Students are everywhere. It is difficult to find a route used by students".
But what are ticket collectors doing on the way from the campus and why can they fine so many students in several hours?..
A season ticket for two kinds of transport costs 82 thousand roubles. It is 1/7 of a BNTU student's monthly scholarship.
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