Five train routes to Alakol will be launched from Almaty

JSC "NC "Kazakhstan Temir Zholy" told about the planned five routes, thanks to which it will be possible to get to Lake Alakol from Almaty. Earlier, the Akimat of the Almaty region announced a memorandum with JSC NC "Kazakhstan Temir Zholy", according to which 11 routes will run to Alakol in the Almaty region. According to the press service of Passenger Transportation JSC, it is planned that five of these 11 routes will run directly from Almaty. JSC "Passenger transportation": - train No. 221/222 with the Almaty-2 - Dostyk connection will run three times a week, the cars are designed for 670 seats; - train No. 211/212 with Almaty-2 – Dostyk connection with "Talgo" cars - every other day, the cars are designed for 290 seats; - non-stop cars in trains No. 22/6941/6942/21 Almaty-2 - Dostyk - every other day, for 352 seats. Private carriers: - train No. 137/138 Almaty-2 - Dostyk (Wagon Service Almaty LLP, three times a week); - Train No. 453/454 Almaty-2 - Dostyk (Turan Express LLP, three times a week). The company also told how the issue of the shortage of train tickets will be resolved. According to KTZ, in the summer of 2021, 331 thousand seats were offered in the direction of Lake Alakol, while only 182 thousand passengers were transported. This year, the frequency of running trains will increase. It is planned that the proposed places will also increase to 11 thousand compared to last year. One of the reasons why people could not buy a train ticket to Alakol is ticket dealers. The shortage of tickets for Alakol last year was explained in JSC Passenger Transportation, and the transport prosecutor's office told how ticket resellers operate. This year, according to JSC Passenger Transportation, the fight against resellers will continue. "JSC NC "Kazakhstan Temir Zholy" has gradually introduced the technology of electronic ticketing. Since July 2019, ticket sales have been fully transferred to the Mobius electronic system. It made it possible to improve the conditions for buying tickets for the population due to a significant expansion of sales channels. Measures were also taken to exclude the facts of resale of tickets at the system level. We are talking about blocking the user with multiple requests of the same type (catching seats), introducing the possibility of purchasing tickets in order of priority on the waiting list with confirmation of SMS-mailing to the client about the fact of reserved seats. Over 200 thousand passengers have been able to use the "Waiting List" service over the past two years," the company said. It is noted that since the beginning of quarantine, most passengers purchase tickets online. To date, the share of online sales is 70 percent, which is 10 percent higher than last year. Информация взята с сайта Tengritravel.kz