The Plantain card is the most convenient and profitable way to pay for transport in St. Petersburg. Among the tariffs, you can choose profitable for both permanent residents and tourists.
Podorozhnik is an electronic card used to pay for all types of transport in St. Petersburg. It can record any number of trips or unlimited travel for a specific period. It is convenient and profitable to use it: the cost of the card is lower than when buying a one-time ticket.
Types of tickets
At the box offices of transport organizations in St. Petersburg, you can pay for and write on the card several types of tickets.
A single monthly pass is valid for a calendar month. It entitles you to an unlimited number of trips (including transfers) by ground transport and 70 metro passes.
A single e-ticket does not limit the number of trips. The user deposits a certain amount to the wallet and can make a pass within the framework of these funds. You can replenish the card at a time for an amount not less than the cost of one trip and not more than 15,000 rubles. The ticket is valid for 3 years.
90 minutes - a ticket that is valid for an hour and a half from the moment of activation (the first pass through the metro turnstile or travel in ground transport). During this time, you can make 1 trip by metro and an unlimited number of trips by ground transport. You can record up to 30 such tickets at a time on the card.
Tickets with a period of 1 to 7 days are valid for a specified time and include any number of trips in any transport.
How to pay and top up the plantain card
Using the card is easy. In buses and trolleybuses, it is enough to simply attach the ticket to the validator on the handrail or to the hand-held device at the conductor. A green light indicates that the card has worked correctly.
You can replenish Plantain in different ways. Ticket machines are located in the lobbies of every metro station. You can also contact cashiers at specialized kiosks.
The current balance can be found using information terminals in the metro and transport salons.
In addition, you can replenish the card online, through the personal accounts of the banks "St. Petersburg", "Russian Standard", "Sberbank", as well as through the metro website. With this method, the card must be activated through the vending machine.
Tariffs
For March 2018, the following main types of tariffs are valid for the "Plantain" card:
- Ticket for 90 minutes - 65 rubles;
- For 1 day - 180 rubles
- For 2 days - 255 rubles;
- For 3 days - 340 rubles;
- For 4 days - 425 rubles;
- For 5 days - 510 rubles;
- For 6 days - 595 rubles;
- For 7 days - 680 rubles;
- For a month (metro and ground transport) - 2900 rubles;
- For a month (only ground transport) - 1955 rubles;
- Single e-ticket - top-up for any amount, a discount from 9 to 14 rubles from the full fare.
