The Effects of the Pandemic Have Begun to Decrease: İzmir Returned to Public Transportation

As the effects of the Covid-19 epidemic began to decrease, the usage figures before the pandemic period in public transportation were reached again. The average of getting on all public transportation vehicles in the city was 1 million 900 thousand per day.

After the difficult period caused by the Covid-19 epidemic, the rate of use of public transportation vehicles reached the pre-pandemic period with the increase in vaccinations and the decrease in the course of the disease. Especially in recent months, the serious increases in fuel prices have also been effective in the tendency of citizens to public transportation. The average of boarding of all public transportation vehicles in the city caught before the pandemic, reaching 1 million 900 thousand per day.

Maximum attention to hygiene

Despite the decrease in the effects of the epidemic in the ESHOT, İZULAŞ, Metro, Tram and İZDENİZ enterprises affiliated to the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, cleaning and disinfection activities are carried out with sensitivity during the heaviest periods of the pandemic. Both the disinfection teams of the Metropolitan Municipality and the cleaning personnel of the institutions and organizations clean and disinfect their vehicles and transfer centers continuously and regularly.

It had fallen to 200.

The Covid-2020 epidemic, which has also affected Turkey since March 19, had serious negative effects on public transportation as well as in all areas of life. Before the pandemic, while 1 million 900 thousand rides were made on all public transportation vehicles on a daily basis, this figure decreased to 2020 thousand with a decrease of 90 percent as of the second quarter of 200. The loss of revenue, triggered by the 'passenger capacity reduction' decisions implemented with the Presidential decrees in order to protect public health, had a very negative impact on the sustainability of the service. Izmir Metropolitan Municipality subsidized all public transportation institutions and organizations, and the subsidy amount in the last two years had reached 1 billion 309 million TL.