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What public transport tickets cost across the world

Last updated on: April 23, 2013 08:40 IST

Image: Commuters disembark from a Namma Metro train at an elevated station in the Indira Nagar area of Bangalore.
Photographs: Vivek Prakash/Reuters.

India offers one of the world's cheapest public transport services.

Mapping the prices of public transport across the world, Deutsche Bank lists out the minimum fares for single rides in metro services, mono rails or buses.

Most cities have their version of tube rails or mono rails. In cities, which do not have any form of intra city rail transport system, Deutsche Bank has taken equivalent fares for bus rides.


Take a lost at the fares across the world...

 

India

Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 9.71 ($0.18)

(Prices may vary slightly depending on currency fluctuations, $1= Rs 53.96)


What public transport tickets cost across the world

Image: Bandar Tasik Selatan station (KLIA Transit), Klang Valley, Malaysia.
Photographs: Wikimedia Commons.

Malaysia

Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 11.87 ($0.22)

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Image: Ruben Oviedo, 40, dressed as comics superhero Thor, waits for the subway in Mexico City, Mexico.
Photographs: Edgard Garrido/Reuters.

Mexico

Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 12.95 ($0.24)

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Image: Guangzhou Metro.
Photographs: Wikimedia Commons.

China

Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 16.19 ($0.30)

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Image: Britomart Train Station, Auckland, New Zealand.
Photographs: James Pole/Wikimedia Commons.

New Zealand

Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 20.50 ($0.38)

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Photographs: Honeybee/Wikimedia Commons.

Hong Kong

Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 23.74 ($0.44)

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Photographs: Reuters.

Singapore

Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 38.31 ($0.71)

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Image: A view of the Slavyanski Boulevard Metro station in Moscow, Russia.
Photographs: Sergei Chirikov/Pool/Reuters.

Russia

Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 45.32 ($0.84)

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Photographs: Wikimedia Commons.

South Africa


Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 61.51 ($1.14)

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Image: Trains parked in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Photographs: Paulo Whitaker/Reuters.

Brazil

Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 69.06 ($1.28)

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Image: A regional train travels along snow-covered rails near Essen in Germany.
Photographs: Ina Fassbender/Reuters.

Germany

Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 96. 04 ($1.78)

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Image: A worker gestures as a car at Tsukiji subway station of Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line moves off in Japan.
Photographs: Kimimasa Mayama/Reuters

Japan

Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 104. 14 ($1.93)

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Image: London Metro.
Photographs: Tompagenet/Wikimedia Commons.

United Kingdom

Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 104.69 ($1.94)

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Photographs: Reutrers.

Australia

Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 105.76 ($1.96) 

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Image: A man punches another man dressed up as 'Punch Me Panda' inside the subway system in New York City.
Photographs: Lucas Jackson/Reuters.

United States

Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 107. 92 ($2.00)

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Image: People wait for trains at the Gare Saint Lazare railway station in Paris, France.
Photographs: Charles Platiau/Reuters.

France

Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 125. 72 ($2.33)

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Photographs: Alexcaban/Wikimedia Commons.

Canada

Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 146.77 ($2.72)