Penza, 17 November 2017. PenzaNews. 57 million people were transported by road passenger public transport in the Penza region from January to October 2017. This was reported on the website of the Penzastat.

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According to information of the regional office of the Federal State Statistics Service, it is 8.7% more than in the same period of the previous year.

More than 5 million people were transported by trolleybuses, which is significantly less than in 10 months of 2017 – 77.6%.

The total passenger turnover during this period was over 1.3 billion passenger-kilometres, increase to the level of the previous year equals to 5.2%. 46,3 million passenger-kilometres is the share of trolleybus transportation.

According to information of the Ministry of Industry of the Penza region, the system of motor transport services in the region has an inter-municipal network with 145 routes including 84 suburban and 61 interurban ones.

Passenger transportation by motor transport within municipal service is provided in 23 areas of the region and has 183 routes of suburban service.

In Penza there are 65 municipal routes of scheduled passenger transportation: six routes of large class buses, 52 – of small class buses, as well as seven trolleybus routes.