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riders enrol through the bank's app, the system was expected to go live at one station and the bank planned to extend it to 30 more stations.", "exact": false }, "preservation": { "archiveUrl": null, "archivedAt": null, "contentHash": null, "status": "not-captured" } }, { "id": "src-09b3071fa9c494d7", "title": "Civil.ge — Public Transport Prices to Hike as Tbilisi Introduces Subscription System (2021)", "url": "https://civil.ge/archives/463605", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "civil.ge", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-7bf6bb944704ec70", "clm-6d2d26101387056c", "clm-ae75ba8efc27f03f" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": "2021-12-22", "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-11-04", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-11-04", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "publication-and-record-dates-recorded" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "News report on the Mayor's announcement of a subscription-based fare system from February 2022, unified across buses, metro and blue and yellow minibuses: a 90-minute pass for GEL 1, twice the previous tariff, plus daily, weekly, monthly, three-month, six-month and yearly passes, with discount categories kept.", "exact": false }, "preservation": { "archiveUrl": null, "archivedAt": null, "contentHash": null, "status": "not-captured" } }, { "id": "src-0252335342d3e676", "title": "FactCheck.ge — Pensioners and the new Tbilisi transport passes (verdict on an MP's claim, 2022)", "url": "https://factcheck.ge/en/story/40432--as-if-pensioners-did-not-have-enough-with-loans-for-medication-now-kaladze-added-more-for-transport-passes", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "factcheck.ge", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-64a9a552b68a6ec6", "clm-7bf6bb944704ec70", "clm-1f6900948a0451af", "clm-ae75ba8efc27f03f" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": "2022-02-14", "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-11-04", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-11-04", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "publication-and-record-dates-recorded" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "Independent fact-check of an MP's claim that pensioners would need loans to buy the new passes: it states that from 1 February 2022 the single fare became GEL 1 instead of GEL 0.5, that minibus service was included in the joint payment system, and that pensioners keep the reduced 20-tetri fare and need no pass; 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