Overloaded bus ticket prices required by government

For the Pristina relations, Rahovec of 3.50 euros as a ticket, from now on it will be 4 euros, while for Pristina, Mitrovica, out of 1.50 euros, the price now is 2 euros.

Ticket price increases include other relations.

The ticket extension is considered unfair and affordable by citizens.

They've asked the state to take steps.

“Yes, of course it affects everything. We don't have what to do, we don't have it. When I went to protest, I don't know what to do. As oil grows, it all grows”, said Avdi Kodralia, resident of Pristina.

Worried with this trend of growth, citizens of Ganit Hoti and Nazim Haziray have also expressed themselves.

This goes according to standard, like oil there. It's not their fault either. It affects a lot. We don't have the capacity, the salaries are too small for this price. You can't do anything with salary 500 to600. I also have children travelling every day, should push as we can”, Hoti said.

“It's not fair at all. If you take the current situation in Kosovo, it is very bad that they have made this expensive. It's a big deal because you know what a citizen can handle with this basket. Even this ticket is very expensive, very bad. Therefore, an initiative should be made to regulate these things because it does not go for the first step to be price hikes”, Haziray said.

Ceatin Kachanic of the association “Consumer” has stressed that this rising oil prices will also have an effect on the establishment of other products.

Any price hike, this time fuel, causes so-called domino effects. This price increase will affect the rise of all other prices, no matter the percentage of derivatives in a certain product. In transport, if the price of derivatives is 30%, then tickets go up 50%. This is not real, but 20% is not real either, because the 30% increase of the derivative does not contribute proportionally to any price of ticket”, he said.

The Kachanic has voiced concern that after the oil price decrease, the price raised will not be affected and, according to him, the government is not taking steps.

E Jakup Berisha, chairman of the Union of Road Transport Associations, has indicated that the transport situation is serious.

According to him, up to 75 percent of company revenues go for fuel.

He has stressed that the Kosovo government must take measures to stop the rising price of oil.

Then the government would have to intervene and lower or remove the excise altogether until it is an emergency or a state of war, because these are extraordinary conditions. The state must also have oil reserves, such as wheat, flour, sugar, and salt for emergency situations. At that time, he would have to interfere with these” reserves, Berisha said.

He has warned that if this growth trend continues, companies will be forced to stop operating completely or increase prices on all lines.

Albania and Northern Macedonia are two of the states that have offered relief measures. So is Croatia. /Time