According to Tabnak, quoting the Young Journalists Club, Majid Farahani, Chairman of the Budget Committee and Financial Supervision of the Islamic Council of Tehran, in response to the restrictions on the service of the public transport fleet (metro and bus), said:” This decision will cause the gathering of people in peak hours to become an explosive state and that will be our biggest problem.
Farahani pointed out that during the two years of investigations in the city council, the situation of public transportation has passed the alert state, and continued: For example, Tehran should be managed with 10,000 buses, but now with 5,000 buses. The state of public transport can also be critical in the covid-19 pandemic.
The head of the Budget Committee and Financial Supervision of the Islamic Council of Tehran added: The World Health Organization has officially announced that buses and subways are one of the places infected with the Corona virus due to overcrowding. The government is required by law to pay half of the cost of public transportation development.
Farahani added: “In such a world, the use of public transportation is expanding, but we are acting contrary to international law; In such cases, the government allocated the budget and paid part of the cost of Internet taxis.