Recently, travel in Lutsk minibuses will still become more expensive, and this is not an April Fool's joke. As Radio "Family and Home" reports, yesterday at a meeting of the executive committee of the Lutsk City Council, a decision was made to set the maximum fare for travel in "minibuses" at one hryvnia.
Let us recall that until now it was 80 kopecks and, according to Lutsk authorities, it had not changed for the past several years. Lutsk carriers began negotiations with local authorities back in October of last year regarding an increase in the cost of travel. They proposed setting the maximum level at one and a half hryvnias, justifying this proposal by the rising cost of fuel, spare parts, and vehicle maintenance. And since this is a private business and it must be profitable, they sent an open letter to Lutsk Mayor Anton Kryvytskyi. The authorities, trying to take into account the interests of both carriers and the community, proposed settling on the sum of one hryvnia. The participants in the negotiations reached an agreement.
By the way, the day before, about 20 minibuses parked in front of the walls of the city hall. In this way, the carriers expressed their solidarity with the local authorities, who on that same day were picketed by members of the Volyn branch of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists. The KUN members sought to draw the attention of the current mayor's team to a number of social issues and to the unjustified increase in travel prices. Participants of both pickets had an emotional discussion, and about an hour later they dispersed. Each of them remained of their own opinion.