Alarming Number of Passengers Caught Misusing Children's and Other Discounted Bus Cards

The Ulaanbaatar Transportation Office reported that nearly 20,000 violations were found during a five-day onsite inspection on public buses.Four specialists from Ulaanbaatar Smart Card LLC, 18 state inspectors from the Ulaanbaatar Transportation Office, and 249 inspectors and six supervisory staff from City Bus Consulting LLC observed and inspected operations of public buses from November 9 to 13. During this period, 83,822 passengers rode 2,868 public buses routed to four destinations, namely Ch:7 Nisekh-National Library-Doloon Buudal-Zunjin, Ch:36 Gachuurt-Officers' Palace-Zaisain, Ch:3 Zuun Salaa-National Center of Communicable Diseases, Ch:51 3rd and 4th micro district-National University of Mongolia-and Dunjingarav State Service Center.

According to the inspection report, a total of 19,525 violates were detected.Violations were divided into the following categories:Riding without smart bus card 12,485Using cards with insufficient balance 5,403Adults using children's bus card 1,093Adults using bus cards for elderly people 288People using bus cards for the disabled...