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Celebrity Tour Bus Driver Fired After Calling Man The N-Word

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A TMZ Celebrity Tour bus driver was fired on Saturday (July 17) after he was recorded on video calling someone the N-Word, TMZ reported.

The online tabloid news outlet said the driver worked for Exclusive Livery Service, which owns the bus that TMZ leases.

No passengers were on the bus when the incident happened, according to TMZ.

A video circulating on social media purports to show the confrontation between the driver and a man who’s off camera.

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It begins in the middle of the argument with the driver yelling that he will sue the other man, who’s demanding confirmation that the driver just called him the N-word.

Unashamed, the driver admits to calling him the racial slur.

Warning: the unedited video below includes expletives and the racially offensive language.

TMZ’s two-hour bus tour takes passengers through Hollywood, West Hollywood, The Sunset Strip and Beverly Hills to see places where celebrities party and play, according to its website.

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TMZ tour bus driver fired after using the N-word

A TMZ tour bus driver was fired Saturday after he was recorded using the N-word, according to TMZ reports. The incident happened between the driver and a man off-screen. No passengers were on the bus at the time. TMZ tour buses take passengers on guided tours of West Hollywood, Hollywood and Beverly Hills.

This @TMZ your bus driver called me a nigger. Black people should avoid using this company. pic.twitter.com/Ug9Jivh03V — Film The Police LA (@FilmThePoliceLA) July 17, 2021

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Maybe he was just rapping.

He sounds (accent) like he is from some low class slum on the East Coast.(no offense to the East Coast, we have Slums on the West Coast)

Why is this news? There are jerks in this world. We know that.

Yeah, it is not smart to hire drivers who use profanity and vulgar language.

A story about TMZ. Really? This is not what we would expect on WeHoVille.

YES!!!! LOL!!!!! TMZ!!!!! the bottom of the barrel “journalism”.

TMZ Tour Bus Driver Fired After Using N

The driver of a TMZ Celebrity Tour bus is out of a job Saturday after hurling the n-word at someone. The TMZ tour was not in progress at the time, nor were there passengers onboard, when the incident happened Saturday morning. The driver was not an…

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TMZ Tour Bus Driver Caught Up In Bizarre Car Pursuit Speaks Out

April 7, 2016 / 11:30 PM PDT / KCAL News

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com)  —   It was perhaps the most-talked about moment of a very bizarre chase Thursday.

The chase of two robbery suspects from Cerritos to South LA lasted for nearly two hours.

While the pursuit will long be remembered for the driver going on sidewalks, doing donuts on Hollywood Boulevard, nearly swiping cars on the freeway and even members of the community taking selfies with the suspects at the end -- the eyebrow-raising moment came when the suspects tried to pass a TMZ tour bus on the 101 Freeway.

The driver appeared to intentionally try to box the suspects in.

On Thursday evening, however, the driver (who didn't want his face shown) told CBS2's Erica Nochlin the move wasn't intentional at all.

He says he was just trying to pull to the right for police.

"I was just obeying the law," Arzu said.

The driver says he didn't even see all the chaos that was happening outside his window. He also didn't see one of the suspects throw what was originally thought to be a hamburger at his vehicle. (Police said it appeared to be a foam cup.)

Many believe the driver was a hero -- slowing down the suspects long enough for police to get a good tail on them.

"I don't feel like a celebrity," Arzu told Nochlin, "I was just doing my job."

No one was hurt -- the bus was empty. The driver told Nochlin the vehicle didn't even sustain a scratch.

The driver's boss said it was all just another day in Hollywood.

"It's kind of the five seconds of fame maybe," said Kami Farhadi, CEO of Starline Tours.

Tour or not, visitors to Los Angeles got to see plenty of action on the streets of Hollywood. Perhaps that's why when they drove into South L.A., the suspects received a warm reception by a big crowd. They were even given high-fives, hugs, and had time to take selfies.

"I thought it was a famous person driving by or something," said witness Julia McIntyre, visiting from Georgia.

She quickly realized -- this is not a movie.

"I was like, 'Oh my gosh! I've never seen one of these before!'," she said.

She also got a special greeting from the driver.

"He was either waving or he was flipping us off, I don't know which one because he was going so fast," she said.

Meanwhile, the bus driver says he could now use a vacation.

"It won't be the last time this crazy thing happens," he said.

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Instead of focusing on Hollywood’s boldface names, the new TMZ Selfie Tour gives someone else the star treatment: You. In its first expansion since launching celeb-spotting rides in 2011, the company seeks out some of the city’s most iconic buildings and backdrops while offering to help those who plunk down $59 improve their selfie game.

The daily tour, which launched Oct. 16. was the brainchild of TMZ Senior VP, Business Development & Growth Stuart Alpert, who says the idea bubbled after discussions with TMZ founder Harvey Levin about how ways to expand the tour offerings.

“A few months ago, I was out and about in Hollywood and West Hollywood,” Alpert tells The Times, “And I’d see all these young people taking selfies at all these iconic locations — like the [Paul Smith boutique] pink wall — I thought it was fascinating. So I thought that this was something that could be so much fun — making the next extension of our tour product a curated tour of a lot of the iconic spots in Hollywood, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills [and down] Melrose where our guests can get their own selfies with context and narrative from the tour guides.”

I tell Alpert that sounds like the tour is giving the A-list treatment to landmarks. “That’s right,” he responded emphatically. “And it gives our guests a chance to be a star in their own right in front of these locations that so many other influencers and celebrities have taken photos in front of. And along the way we’re also giving some tips here and there; how to get your best shot, where to stand.”

As inane as a selfie tour sounds, it’s not the first effort to leverage the look-at-me compulsion ( Museum of Selfies circa 2018, I’m looking at you). And when you really think about it, the notion of swapping out celeb-spotting for landmark drive-bys makes sense. After all, Hollywood’s elite are slippery as eels in the wild, busy people with things to do and places — most often away from bright red tour buses — to be. The Capitol Records Building and Rodeo Drive? Not so much.

How is the new tour different from the long-running TMZ Celebrity Tour? Instead of several departures daily, there’s just one departing at 2 p.m. And it’s slightly longer, clocking in at 2½ to 3 hours, which allows for getting on and off the bus. It’s got just a handful of stops — nine in all right now — and goes roughly in the opposite direction from the flagship tour (down the Sunset Strip through West Hollywood to Beverly Hills, then looping back down Melrose past Paramount and back up to Hollywood). Many of the spots are instantly recognizable landmarks; buildings and signage with links to the industry while others lean more into the selfie side. There are some baffling omissions (like the Hollywood sign, which seems like a no-brainer), but Alpert said some of those had to do with logistics and time constraints.

It also skews slightly younger, says TMZ’s social media manager Jaysn Lewis. “Not as young as you’d think, though,” Lewis says, noting that the tour tends to attract those “in the 30- to 35-years-old range, compared to the mid-50s for the [original tour].”

As someone who lives within about a five-minute drive of all of the stops on the tour, but takes a lousy selfie, I found the prospect of learning to up my phone photography game compelling. If the TMZ Selfie Tour could help me look like even slightly less than a ham-handed buffoon in pictures of my own taking it would be worth the price. So, with the bar set just that low, I headed off on a Friday afternoon to snap some celebrity-level selfies.

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Before embarking on our voyage, I had a chance to chat with the tour’s affable guide, Eunice Elliott at the TMZ kiosk just inside the Hard Rock Cafe on a tourist-heavy stretch of Hollywood Boulevard. She explained that her selfie expertise came from her stint as a morning news anchor at a Birmingham, Ala., TV station.

“Before I went on the air, I would always take a selfie as a way of checking my hair and makeup,” Elliott tells The Times. “So I’ve learned a few things. One is that it’s the angle — it’s always the angle. Another is to say in your head — not out loud but just in your head — ‘I know you see me.’ Have that ‘I know you see me’ energy.”

With that as my only preflight instruction, I made my way to the bright red, 25-seat, open-sided TMZ tour bus.

2:11 p.m., Orange Street at Hollywood Boulevard

“I’m your tour guide,” Elliott says to the group, “but think of me as your personal paparazzi.” She looks at us, 17 in all, ranging in age from early 20s to early 60s and asks the million-dollar question: “Who here would consider themselves a pretty good selfie-taker?” When a single hand jabs the air in affirmation, Elliott smiles.

As the bus starts to move, she launches into her spiel, which includes reminding us to tag our posts with #tmzselfietour. “When you use that hashtag, I’m able to pull that immediately from your Instagram and put it up on the screen,” Elliott explains, pointing to the handful of small, flip-down video screens over the bus seats. “And then we’re going to have a little contest to see who feels like they got the best selfie from each stop. And I do have prizes!”

As the bus lumbers down Hollywood Boulevard toward the first tour stop, Elliott punches a few buttons and a pre-recorded video begins: “How to grab the best selfie in five easy steps.”

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2:23 p.m., Vine Street near Yucca Street

The bus rolls up in front of the Capitol Records Building and disgorges its cadre of selfie seekers. “Five minutes for this stop,” Elliott advises. Racing against the clock, I twist my iPhone all kinds of ways trying to find a framing that includes both my head and the entirety of the building behind me while keeping Elliott’s pre-stop advice top of mind. (“The further away you are,” she’d told us, “the more of the building you’ll get.”) The best of my efforts makes me look like a pelican’s neck pouch sporting sunglasses. By 2:33 p.m., we’re back on the bus, rolling toward our next stop.

“They need chargers on this bus,” says Candice Evans, a 23-year-old from Claremont. She’s not wrong. I loan her mine.

2:58 p.m., Melrose Avenue

Our driver, Vargas, stops just short of the Paramount Studios Melrose Gate and we scuttle out, not trying to seem too eager to take pictures of ourselves again so soon. I try to remember some of the selfie tips and cock my head slightly to the right, like a dog who thinks he hears a treat bag opening three rooms away. I’m not totally happy with the result. But it feels markedly better, and there’s enough of the gate centered behind me that it mercifully pulls focus from my boiled-potato head.

Few of my fellow bus riders seem to be scaling the same steep learning curve that I am (well, except the one guy who hasn’t gotten off the bus at all yet). They whip out their phones with confidence, extend their arms to the right distance and tilt their heads just so. When their selfies pop up on the bus’ video monitors they look like natural-born influencers. I decide that the next time Elliott offers her assistance to help set up — or even take — a selfie-stop photo, I’m going to take her up on it.

3:11 p.m. Melrose Avenue near North Ogden Drive

Passing Pink’s Hot Dogs prompts Elliott to pose the query that has roiled the internet and divided many a family: “Is a hotdog a sandwich?” The bus is unable to come to a consensus. The philosophical gymnastics turn out to be a good warm-up when we arrive at our third stop — a pair of colorful wings painted against a pink backdrop by artist Colette Miller, as part of her Global Angel Wings Project . A beautiful piece of street art to be sure, but sans yard-long arms, one that’s nigh impossible to capture as a selfie.

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Fellow bus-rider Blair Moon offers to snap my picture, and suggests I extend my arms and drop my wrists to mimic the arc of the wings. As I do, he snaps away, resulting in a humorous shot I’m not totally unhappy with. But as I get back on the bus, I muse aloud: “When is a selfie not a selfie?”

3:21 p.m., Melrose Avenue at North Harper Avenue

Before we scramble to post up in front of the Instagram-famous Paul Smith pink wall, Elliott offers some advice. “Try some ‘I know you see me’ energy out there,” she says. I try mightily, but my efforts at capturing the perfect shot are thwarted by the shadows cast by the bright mid-afternoon sun. Watching my struggle, Elliott asks for my phone. I hand it over and look away, ashamed at my failing. That’s when she takes the kind of photo I want on my funeral easel; I look cool and confident, and thanks to the way I’ve placed my hands on my hips and turned my face to look just past the camera to the left I seem a good 30 pounds lighter. I decide I’m going to be all about the “I know you see me” energy all the time.

4:01 p.m., Santa Monica Boulevard at North Doheny Drive

By the time we arrive at the Beverly Hills Shield, the busload of selfie seekers seems to have lost its energy, having been mired in rush-hour traffic so long, Elliott jokes it should be its own stop on the tour. Not me, though. I keep looking at the not-selfie that Elliott took of me trying to reverse engineer what made it work. We’re off and back on the bus in five minutes flat.

A smartphone selfie captures Cooper Terle, 27, far left, with Blair Moon, 26, both from Hollywood, in front of the pink wall at the Paul Smith Store on Melrose Avenue . (Blair Moon)

Raquel Morales, 60, of Los Angeles, takes a selfie in front of 800-pound “Peace and Love” statue designed by Ringo Starr, former member of the Beatles, on Santa Monica Blvd. in Beverly Hills. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

4:15 to 4:55 p.m., Santa Monica Boulevard at North Crescent Drive, Rodeo Drive

We hit a flurry of stops — first a three-for-one, giving us shots at Insta fame in front of a palm-tree-lined street, Ringo Starr’s “Peace & Love” sculpture and a Beverly Hills sign, and then a two-fer, via Rodeo and the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. At the first of these I ask my charger-borrowing buddy what she thought of the selfie tour.

“I like it,” Evans says, “because it’s interactive. You’re hopping on and off the bus instead of just sitting there the whole time.”

5:05 p.m. North Crescent Drive at Sunset Boulevard

By the time we hit our last stop — the Beverly Hills Hotel — even the most recalictrant seem to be enjoying the challenge of upping their selfie game, and everybody seems to be bonding. Someone makes an offhand mention of “Zoolander,” and, before you can say orange mocha frappuccino I’m throwing my best blue steel look with a complete stranger in front of the hotel’s instantly recognizable, flora-flanked green-and-white sign.

This is where Elliott drops some more hot selfie knowledge on me. “Try focusing on the sign first — then yourself,” she said. “And remember you can use the side button [to take the picture].” Mind. blown.

5:28 p.m., Sunset Boulevard at North Doheny Drive

As the tour began to wend its way back to where our navel-gazing tour began, I started swiping through the myriad photos. While none of them were spectacular (my pink wall not-selfie not withstanding) the ones I took toward the end of the day felt like a marked improvement over the earlier ones. But even after filling my phone with 179 photos of Hollywood-related signage and world-famous building facades over 2½ hours, there was a hole that no amount of self-instilled star power could fill: an old-fashioned celebrity sighting.

Then Elliott pointed out the open side of the bus toward the corner of Sunset and Doheny like Ahab spotting Moby Dick. Necks craned and eyes swiveled as a black SUV with tinted windows inched into traffic.

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“It’s Judd Apatow!” she said. “Hey, Judd Apatow!” Elliott brandished her nearby video camera (all the TMZ tour guides have them in the event of in-the-wild encounters) and aimed it out the window. The figure in the back, all but obscured by the tinting, waved gamely through an open one-third slice of window as the SUV slid by us. Was it actually the director and screenwriter, the guy who gave us “The 40 Year Old Virgin” and “Knocked Up”? It could just as easily have been any random dude in an Uber Black. Still, it felt like I was, just for a few minutes, celebrity-adjacent. Judd Apatow, or whoever we had convinced ourselves was him, and I were sharing a traffic jam.

5:45 p.m., Sunset Boulevard at La Cienega Boulevard

I forget all about our close maybe-Apatow encounter when I get a text from my sister in Vermont: “Dude — saw your picture on Instagram — have you lost weight?? Or is it a really good photographer?” She’s referring to my #pinkwall post. I eventually admit it’s the photographer, but realize I’ve just gotten irrefutable proof that Elliott‘s “I know you see me” energy is doing something.

That, coupled with the way TMZ’s new tour pivots from one type of celebrity adjacency to another makes me think they’re onto something. Does it really matter, in the era of the endless scroll, whether the famous person or thing you’re throwing peace signs next to for your friends likes is Judd Apatow or Brad Pitt or a studio gate? A pink wall or a Beverly Hills road sign that’s just as instantly recognizable?

TMZ clearly seems to think so. That’s why, when I spoke to Alpert, just 12 days after the first Hollywood-based selfie bus rolled into service, he was already in full expansion mode.

“Our next venture is probably going to be extending this selfie tour concept to Las Vegas,” he says. “We’re already in discussions to develop that with our partners Big Bus Tours . And then Washington, D.C., we also have our eye on that.”

Maybe it was my imagination, but I swear I could feel Alpert’s “I know you see me” energy right through the phone.

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Introduction of moscow subway system (metro).

Nowadays the Moscow Metro has 12 lines, light subway and monorail. All stations are unique and beautiful in their own way. Unfortunately, in order to visit them all, you need to spend many days. I invite guests to visit the ones that have the greatest cultural and historical interest from my point of view. Among them are the Revolution Square, Arbatskaya, Kievskaya (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line № 3); Kievskaya, Belarusskaya, Novoslobodskaya, Komsomolskaya (the Ring line number 5). Let us dwell a bit on each.

Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line

Subway station "revolution square".

Most recently - in the year 2008-2010 – the Eastern lobby was renovated. Because of the terrorist attacks in the Moscow subway that took place several hours before the planned opening of the East lobby after renovation, the solemn part of the event was canceled.

Subway station Arbatskaya

Subway Arbatskaya is located on the same subway line as the station "Revolution Square." It was founded in 1953. It received the name in honor of the Arbat Street. It has one ground lobby (Western). Initially, the lobby was in a separate building, but the new building of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense started, the lobby appeared to be in its atrium. The old exits were bricked up; a new entrance was built into the building of General Staff of the street Vozdvizhenka. There is a huge frame with a missing portrait in the ground lobby - until mid-1950 there was a portrait of Stalin. According to some reports, it survived, but closed with plaster.

The lobby was restored and partially reconstructed in 2007-2008.

The depth of the station is 41 meters.

Pylons are finished with red marble at the bottom, decorated with bouquets of flowers made from ceramics. The floor is laid out with gray granite. The walls lined with glazed ceramic tiles, white top and black bottom. The station hall is illuminated by massive bronze chandeliers in the form of rings.

Subway station Kievskaya

There are several subway stations "Kievskaya" in Moscow, located on different branches. This name is quite popular. It comes from the capital of Ukraine - one of Russia's nearest neighbors - the city of Kiev. The name is fully consistent with the idea of the subway station. The interior the station devoted to Soviet Ukraine and the reunification of Ukraine and Russia. The station is decorated with a large number of paintings .Twenty four murals depicting workers of Soviet Ukraine are placed on the arch above the pylons. The wall from the side of platform also contains frescos, mainly with images of fantastic plants. Pylons are decorated with light marble and additionally decorated with colorful ceramic cornice. The butt of the station has a large mosaic, depicting festivities to celebrate the 300 anniversary of the reunification of Ukraine and Russia.

Opened in 1953, this subway station for a long time was the final (1953-2003).

The station has one lobby, combined with the station ring line and located in the building of the Kievskaya railway station. The diameter of the central hall station is 9.5 m, the diameter of side one is 8.5 m. The depth of the station is 38 meters.

= Ring Line Subway =

It opened in 1954. The station received its name after the Kiev station, and locked the Ring line. During the construction of the station many projects were proposed, but the victory in the competition won the Kiev architects who made the construction of the station. It is the only station of the Ring Line which is not located in the Central Administrative District of Moscow.

The station has a pylon structure. Eighteen pylons are decorated with mosaic panels of glazes, decorated on the theme of Ukrainian history and friendship between the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, which started in the mid-17 century.

On the front wall of the central hall of the station a large panel with molding in the form of flags and a mosaic portrait of Lenin in the center are located. There are lines of the Soviet national anthem around the portrait, and under the portrait - the words of Lenin. One of the ways out of the station was designed by French architects modeled on the Paris Subway in 2006.

At one of the mosaics – “The Struggle for Soviet power in Ukraine "- modern passengers observe a mobile phone and PDA in the hand of one of the guerrillas, and on his knees - a laptop. In fact, he uses a field telephone, which was really a heavy thing (guerrillas holds it in two hands), and thing that people see a laptop is the lid of a box with a telephone. However, these phones have begun to produce only in the second half of the 20-ies of XX century. We must assume that the mosaic depicts a foreign field telephone transmitter.

Subway station Belorusskaya

The founded of the station was in 1952. It received the name after the Belarusian railway station nearby. The station has two ground-based lobbies. The Western one goes to Tverskaya  Zastava. It is decorated with beautiful carvings. The Eastern one leads to Butyrskiy shaft and Forest Street. The Eastern lobby is known for its majolica panels.

The station Belorusskaya is located at a depth of 42.5 m below ground. The diameter of the central hall is 9.5 meters.

Pylons are faced with light marble. The walls lined with white ceramic tiles, the floor is covered with ceramic tiles, gray, white and red colors. Lamps placed on pylons, in the form of vases made of glass and marble. The theme of decoration is economy and culture of Belarus. Decorative pattern on the floor repeats the theme of traditional Belarusian embroidery. Decorations of the ceiling consist of stucco decorations and 12 mosaic panels depicting the life of the Belarusian people.

Subway station Novoslobodskaya

Built in 1952, Subway station Novoslobodskaya got its name from the eponymous street:  the station is located at the very beginning of it.

Novoslobodskaya is pylon station of deep foundation (its depth is 40 m) with three arches.

Exit to the street is through the ground lobby with column portico, located on Novoslobodskaya Street lined with gray marble. Pylons of the underground station are faced with marble from the Urals. Thirty two spectacularly illuminated stained-glasses, placed inside the pylon and bordered by steel and gilt brass are splendid decoration of the station. A remarkable mosaic "World Peace" is located at the end of the central hall. The picture depicts a happy mother with a baby in her arms; it was the face of Stalin at the picture: the child gave a hand to him. But in times of Khrushchev the face of the former leader of USSR was removed from the panel. The walls are lined with bright marble; floor is covered with white and black granite slabs, placed in a checkerboard pattern.

Subway station Komsomolskaya

The station was built in 1952 and named in honor of the Komsomolskaya Square, which is situated nearby.

This subway station is the station of the deep bedding. Its depth is 37 meters. The station has column and three- arched design. Cast iron decoration is used in the construction, monolithic slab used as a tray for a collapsible finishing. The length of the boarding hall is 190 meters; width of it is 10 meters. There are 68 octagonal columns at station.

The main theme of the interior of the station is the fighting of the Russian people for their independence. The ceiling is decorated with eight station mosaic mural made from glazes and precious stones. Six of them represent the Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Donskoy, Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky, Alexander Suvorov and Mikhail Kutuzov, the Soviet soldiers and officers at the walls of the Reichstag.

 Two other panels, depicting Stalin ("Victory Parade" and "Presentation of the Guards Banner"), were replaced after the dethronement of Stalin's personality cult in 1963. New panels depict Lenin's speech in front of the Red Guards and the Motherland on the background of the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower.

The yellow ceiling is decorated with mosaic and moldings. The hall is illuminated by massive chandeliers hanging between the panels; platforms are illuminated with smaller chandeliers. The columns are decorated with marble capitals and trimmed with light marble, as well as the wall station. The floor is laid with pink granite. There is a bust of Lenin at the end of the hall. At the opposite end of the escalator is a large Florentine mosaic of the Order of Victory with red banners on the background. The ground lobby of the station is decorated with bas-reliefs.

In conclusion...

Each of the stations of the Moscow subway is attractive and interesting in its own way. Each has its own long and fascinating history and is beautifully decorated. The Moscow subway is a whole world, which can be talking about for hours. I suggest you short - no more than one hour and a half - and a fascinating journey through the world of the Moscow subway. The pleasure is guaranteed!

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Will it be easy to find my way in the Moscow Metro? It is a question many visitors ask themselves before hitting the streets of the Russian capital. As metro is the main means of transport in Moscow – fast, reliable and safe – having some skills in using it will help make your visit more successful and smooth. On top of this, it is the most beautiful metro in the world !

. There are over 220 stations and 15 lines in the Moscow Metro. It is open from 6 am to 1 am. Trains come very frequently: during the rush hour you won't wait for more than 90 seconds! Distances between stations are quite long – 1,5 to 2 or even 3 kilometers. Metro runs inside the city borders only. To get to the airport you will need to take an onground train - Aeroexpress.

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Paper ticket A fee is fixed and does not depend on how far you go. There are tickets for a number of trips: 1, 2 or 60 trips; or for a number of days: 1, 3 days or a month. Your trips are recorded on a paper ticket. Ifyou buy a ticket for several trips you can share it with your traveling partner passing it from one to the other at the turnstile.

On every station there is cashier and machines (you can switch it to English). Cards and cash are accepted. 1 trip - 55 RUB 2 trips - 110 RUB

Tickets for 60 trips and day passes are available only at the cashier's.

60 rides - 1900 RUB

1 day - 230 RUB 3 days - 438 RUB 30 days - 2170 RUB.

The cheapest way to travel is buying Troyka card . It is a plastic card you can top up for any amount at the machine or at the ticket office. With it every trip costs 38 RUB in the metro and 21 RUB in a bus. You can get the card in any ticket office. Be prepared to leave a deposit of 50 RUB. You can get it back returning the card to the cashier.

SamsungPay, ApplePay and PayPass cards.

One turnstile at every station accept PayPass and payments with phones. It has a sticker with the logos and located next to the security's cabin.

GETTING ORIENTED

At the platfrom you will see one of these signs.

It indicates the line you are at now (line 6), shows the direction train run and the final stations. Numbers below there are of those lines you can change from this line.

In trains, stations are announced in Russian and English. In newer trains there are also visual indication of there you are on the line.

To change lines look for these signs. This one shows the way to line 2.

There are also signs on the platfrom. They will help you to havigate yourself. (To the lines 3 and 5 in this case). 

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