The question is how to solve this dilemma, and reach a meeting point in the middle of the road ?!
The government's view is that the subway facility loses more than 600 million pounds a year because of government subsidy for ticket prices. While the expenditure is 5.6 billion pounds, revenues are only 1.2 billion pounds. The government says that the price of the ticket, even after it increased significantly on Friday morning last remains the cheapest globally, because the actual cost of up to about 17 pounds, and that there is no country in the world can be a citizen to move in all metro stations from the far continent To a maximum of two pounds before the increase! And even seven pounds after the increase, or about 40 cents, less than half the dollar, even with appreciation of the difference in incomes here and there.

The government's view is that the continuation of the situation as it is, means the transfer of these losses to the public budget in the form of an increasing deficit, and that the metro facility reaches a situation similar to the railway situation or worse, and thus the opportunity for reform is lost.

On the other hand, a simple citizen who uses the metro on a daily basis and the number of those in the millions says that it is impossible for him to bear this huge increase, because his salary not only did not witness a similar increase, but he was practically exposed to a decrease in its real value to more than half, Foreign exchange in November 2016, when fuel prices were increased more than once.

"How can I afford an increase in ticket prices starting at 50% and up to 235%?! Suppose I believe the government's account that the major imbalance in subway operating expenses has to be fixed. , The logical question is: How can I fix the gross imbalance in my living expenses as a citizen, and how will my life form when electricity and fuel prices rise within weeks ?! "

The prices were not economic at all, and remained frozen and stable for years, at the same time, the conditions of the majority of the children of the poor and middle classes no longer bear any increase in any commodity, albeit a small percentage. If the above is true, how can you handle it !.

On Friday evening and Saturday morning, I heard more than one of the metro users regularly saying: "We will assume that the government's story is true and that it is losing, but we have to check that the Metro is operating on real economic grounds. Only the cost of operating expenses, such as labor, electricity, etc., but this is more important than the salaries of experts and consultants who do not need the facility, in addition to profits that are distributed permanently to employees, although the facility is losing.

I do not know how accurate this is, but it is important that the government and the Ministry of Transport really state that citizens do not get rumors that they are financing astronomical wages for consultants who have nothing to do with transportation, whether it is a railway or a metro. If this were to be true, the government had to rectify it immediately.

There is no objection to fixing the price imbalance of goods and services, but it is important to ensure that there are real economic expenditures in all these facilities.

Citizens are not required to finance the mismanagement of many sectors, especially the metro. If citizens are assured that this will happen, their degree of anger will be greatly reduced.