SPTC increases bus fares

The new bus fares that will take effect from January 1 have been announced by the Seychelles Public Transport Corporation (SPTC).

The general fare will be R7, and for night services after 8pm it will be R10. Air-conditioned bus fares will be R10 and, after 8pm, R13.

Smart cards will be priced as follows:
• Day fare (six trips) ¬– R28.
• Monthly (44 trips) Monday-Friday – R308.
• Monthly (52 trips) Monday-Saturday – R364.
• Monthly (60 trips) Monday-Sunday – R420.

Students living within 3km of their schools will pay R2, while those living more than 3km from their schools will have to report to the Ministry of Education to register for their bus pass.

Disabled people will have to register with the National Council for the Disabled to get their travel concession.

Similarly, pensioners will have to register with the Social Security Fund.

The SPTC will introduce a new card from next year which will be called the Parents’ Special. This will benefit parents accompanying their child to day care, crèche or lower primary.

For example, a parent living at Anse Aux Pins and works in town but whose child goes to a daycare at Pointe Larue, can get off the bus at Pointe Larue to leave her child and then take another bus to go to work without having to pay a second fare.

Parents who qualify will have to register with the SPTC at the Smart Card sales office.

The SPTC says these new fares will be revised every three months.

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