Half of working Novosibirsk citizens travel by public transport
The share of Novosibirsk citizens who commute to work by public transport increased by 16 percentage points over two years and reached 50%
According to the results of the study, half of the working residents of Novosibirsk choose public transport for trips to work. The share of those who use a personal car is 32%. In 2024, the ratio was reversed: motorists prevailed over passengers on buses, trolleybuses, trams and the metro.
Estimates of travel duration have also changed. Now the road on public transport on average takes at Novosibirsk 50 minutes - five minutes less than two years ago. Motorists spend about 32 minutes on the way to work, which is nine minutes less than before.
However, the actual travel time significantly exceeds the expectations of citizens. The ideal duration of the trip to work residents of Novosibirsk called 18 minutes.
For comparison, Muscovites would like to get to work in 27 minutes, residents of St. Petersburg in 24 minutes, Kazan in 21 minutes. The shortest desired time of the trip was indicated by residents of Krasnoyarsk - 13 minutes.
Novosibirsk showed the most noticeable change in transport preferences among cities with a million inhabitants: in two years the share of public transport users grew by 16 percentage points, and the share of motorists decreased. Less pronounced changes were recorded in Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, Rostov-on-Don, Tyumen and Ufa.
Earlier, MK in Novosibirsk reported that Novosibirsk entered the top 4 cities in Russia in terms of the availability of high salaries.
