Today, a new campaign has begun to pay for metro and surface transport with a MIR card using a smartphone. The discount is half as much as in previous similar promotions, but in the current difficult time, even it will be important to many.
The fare in Moscow transport depends on the method of payment. The most expensive "tickets for visitors" for 1 and 2 trips - 61 rubles per trip without the possibility of a preferential transfer (you can only cross the street from the metro to the MCC and back).
It is more profitable to simply pay with a bank card, applying it to the turnstile (in the metro, this is the leftmost and sometimes the rightmost turnstile, they are marked with the corresponding signs). This fare costs 51 rubles. You can also transfer to the MCC and back for free.
It is even cheaper to pay for travel from the balance of the Troika card (the card is sold for 50 rubles at the metro ticket office and can be returned there). The fare costs 46 rubles, the transfer to the MCC and MCD and back is free, transfers in ground transport too free (now even on a bus or tram with the same number) if Troika is registered in the Metro app Moscow. For an additional 23 rubles, you can change from the metro to ground transport and from ground to metro.
Many of those who travel to work every day by public transport buy a travel card for 60 trips (it is valid for 45 days and is recorded on a Troika card). Such a ticket now costs 2400 rubles. The cost of one trip is 40 rubles (but if you do not have time to “roll back” 60 trips in 45 days, unused trips will “burn out”). There is no preferential transfer from the metro to land transport and vice versa.
This was a brief note for those who are not familiar with the public transport payment system in Moscow, and now, in fact, about the action.
From March 1 to June 30 when paying with a smartphone with the MIR Pay application (or Samsung Pay, Apple Pay, Sber Pay, but no one knows whether they will continue to work) 51 rubles are deducted from the card and immediately returned 10 rubles. The cost of the trip is 41 rubles. This is 5 rubles cheaper than the fare when paid by Troika from its balance (but 1 ruble more expensive than paying for a travel card for 60 trips).
An important technical point. For unknown reasons, choosing a payment method by opening the corresponding application on Android smartphones does not work. In order to pay for MIR Pay travel, it must be the default payment system, and in order to pay in stores Google Pay should be set to this system by default, so you have to switch every time back and forth.
When paying directly with a Mir card, there will be no discounts and the fare will be 51 rubles.
Of course, 5 rubles is a very small discount, but if you make a lot of trips and do not use a pass for 60 trips, it will be useful.
In conclusion, I wish everyone a peaceful sky over their heads.
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