16 March 2021
After four months in “the parliamentary labyrinths”, Government’s draft law for taking a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for construction of two Bus Rapid Transit lines in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, yesterday finally passed through the Financing and Budget Committee’s filters. The Government finalized the draft-law for rapid […]
12 March 2021
In 2020, there were 40,523,000 passengers in the urban and intercity public transportation in North Macedonia, show the data provided by the State Statistical Office. It’s the historically lowest number of transferred passengers with public transportation throughout the municipalities nationwide and the COVID pandemic is behind this drop in numbers. Compared to 2019, the number […]
8 February 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a drop of the number of passengers that used the public transportation in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, reaching a historic low. Last year, “JSP Skopje” (Public Enterprise for Transportation) buses and the buses of the private transportation companies transported 27.709.556 passengers, which is almost 30 million passengers less […]
25 January 2021
On foot or riding a bike are the best options when the air pollution is low, and vice versa, these are the riskiest exposures to PM particles when the air pollution concentrations are high, shows the research conducted by an expert team from the Goce Delchev University of Shtip, North Macedonia in collaboration with the […]
2 July 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has had an enormous negative effect on the functioning of public transportation in Skopje and the Public Transportation Company-Skopje (Javno soobrakjajno pretprijatie – Skopje – JSP -Skopje). The long lockdown hours, closed schools, and colleges, many people working from their homes, including people’s fears to use public transportation, in a period of […]
11 May 2020
Instead of using trains and buses as it is the case in Europe, Macedonia is a rare example where the taxi transportation is slowly becoming the dominant means of transportation in the intercity trips. The data provided by the State Statistics Bureau for 2019 shows that trains and buses are becoming less attractive for the […]
12 April 2019
The number of transported persons by the public transportation in Macedonia has been dropping through the years, but nevertheless, more and more Macedonian municipalities are deciding to introduce regular public transportation in the cities. The data provided by the State Statistical Bureau indicate that last year 71.400.000 passengers have used urban or suburban transport, while […]
