In Russia, they offered to make travel on public transport free of charge for children: Society: Russia: Lenta.ru
The Russian authorities have offered to make free travel on public transport for children from 7 to 16 years old, now the bill is under development. About it RIA News said the head of the State Duma committee on family, women and children Nina Ostanina.
Adolescents under 16 years of age who have not paid for travel must not be dismissed from the transport. The family committee was the co-executor of the new project. Ostanina explained that the bill had already been discussed in the current version, and it received a negative opinion from the Cabinet.
“We do not want to lose this law for the next budget, already in 2023. We are asking the regions about expenditures, because, unfortunately, the law has not been worked out in terms of these statistics. If you make, then do it fully. And our committee wants to initiate the development of a new bill with the same idea, with the same name, but taking into account legal work with the regions, ”said Ostanina.
The deputy is sure that the bill will find a response. “Today, the subjects independently solve these problems – somewhere orders, somewhere social cards, that is, whoever can. And we will summarize the materials, submit them to the government and try to convince that this money should be allocated from the federal budget, ”she concluded.
Earlier in Russia, the transition to free public transport by 2035 was discussed, but the Ministry of Transport abandoned this idea. According to the representative of the department, there is too much to implement before seriously implementing this initiative.