Are you left with old public transport tickets? The Prague transport company buys
Updated 18. 8. 2021, 10:08
As of August 1, traveling in public transport (MHD) has become more expensive in Prague, so old tickets are no longer valid. But many people have tickets at home that they bought in stock before the tariff changes. The transport company buys the capital. But people have to hurry.
For the third week in a row, passengers pay extra in Prague’s public transport. Those who were used to buying one-off tickets are the ones who run the most. The half-hour ticket no longer costs the original 24, but 30 crowns, and the 90-minute price went up from 32 to 40 crowns. If people have unused paper tickets from before the tariff changes at home, the transport company has decided to buy them from people.
Purchase up to a maximum of 5 tickets
The first options where tickets can be returned are at the points of sale of the Transport Company of the Capital City of Prague (DPP) in thirty metro stations. But the sellers there may take a maximum of five pieces. They do not take them back to people in information centers and newsagents. “Purchases at all points of sale will be up to a maximum of five block tickets from one face value, due to the check of their authenticity,” said DPP spokeswoman Aneta Řehková. Tickets can be returned there but only until the end of August.
Purchase of more than 5 tickets
More than five pieces of old tickets can be returned in the building of the DPP Central Dispatch Center in Na Bojišti Street, where tickets purchased from vending machines are also returned. In addition, people can return tickets in larger quantities at once until January 31, 2022. In addition, from September it will be the only place where it is possible to return old unused tickets.
DPP prices have risen in price since August 1 after more than ten years. On the other hand, the company has reduced the price of tickets for those Praguers who are in material need.
TN.cz