{"id":104357,"date":"2022-05-03T13:30:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T10:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=104357"},"modified":"2022-05-03T13:30:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T10:30:40","slug":"use-of-public-transport-almost-back-to-pre-pandemic-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/use-of-public-transport-almost-back-to-pre-pandemic-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of public transport almost back to pre-pandemic levels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">According to public transport statistics, passenger numbers for the first quarter of 2022 were almost back to pre-pandemic levels.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;We&#8217;re glad to see people&#8217;s trust in public transport recovering, with more people opting for the environmentally friendly option,&#8221; explained <strong>Mihkel M\u00e4eker<\/strong>, head of the public transport department of the Transport Administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Occupancy of county buses was up 26 per cent on the first quarter of 2021, and only 7 per cent below 2019 figures. There was a similar story for ferry passengers to Estonia\u2019s islands, with numbers up 31 per cent compared to 2021, and only 8 per cent below 2019 figures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Domestic aviation saw the biggest rise, up 57 per cent compared to 2021, and 50 per cent compared to 2019.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s2\">Source <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.err.ee\/1608583771\/use-of-public-transport-back-on-pre-crisis-level\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">ERR <\/span><\/a><span class=\"s2\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; According to public transport statistics, passenger numbers for the first quarter of 2022 were almost back to pre-pandemic levels.&nbsp; &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":104358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[14275,14695,14696,14697,14698,14699,14700,14701],"class_list":["post-104357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-estonia","tag-public-transport","tag-public-transportation","tag-public-transport-statistics","tag-public-transport-statistics-estonia","tag-mihkel-maeker","tag-public-transport-estonia","tag-public-transport-statistics-2022","tag-bus"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104357"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104366,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104357\/revisions\/104366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}