What public transport tickets cost across the world
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India offers one of the world's cheapest public transport services.
Mapping the prices of public transport across the world, Deutsche Bank lists out the minimum fares for single rides in metro services, mono rails or buses.
Most cities have their version of tube rails or mono rails. In cities, which do not have any form of intra city rail transport system, Deutsche Bank has taken equivalent fares for bus rides.
Take a lost at the fares across the world...
India
Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 9.71 ($0.18)
(Prices may vary slightly depending on currency fluctuations, $1= Rs 53.96)
Image: Commuters disembark from a Namma Metro train at an elevated station in the Indira Nagar area of Bangalore.
Photographs: Vivek Prakash/Reuters.
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Malaysia
Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 11.87 ($0.22)
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Image: Bandar Tasik Selatan station (KLIA Transit), Klang Valley, Malaysia.
Photographs: Wikimedia Commons.
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Mexico
Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 12.95 ($0.24)
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Image: Ruben Oviedo, 40, dressed as comics superhero Thor, waits for the subway in Mexico City, Mexico.
Photographs: Edgard Garrido/Reuters.
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China
Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 16.19 ($0.30)
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Image: Guangzhou Metro.
Photographs: Wikimedia Commons.
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New Zealand
Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 20.50 ($0.38)
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Image: Britomart Train Station, Auckland, New Zealand.
Photographs: James Pole/Wikimedia Commons.
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Hong Kong
Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 23.74 ($0.44)
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Photographs: Honeybee/Wikimedia Commons.
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Singapore
Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 38.31 ($0.71)
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Photographs: Reuters.
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Russia
Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 45.32 ($0.84)
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Image: A view of the Slavyanski Boulevard Metro station in Moscow, Russia.
Photographs: Sergei Chirikov/Pool/Reuters.
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South Africa
Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 61.51 ($1.14)
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Photographs: Wikimedia Commons.
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Brazil
Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 69.06 ($1.28)
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Image: Trains parked in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Photographs: Paulo Whitaker/Reuters.
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Germany
Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 96. 04 ($1.78)
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Image: A regional train travels along snow-covered rails near Essen in Germany.
Photographs: Ina Fassbender/Reuters.
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Japan
Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 104. 14 ($1.93)
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Image: A worker gestures as a car at Tsukiji subway station of Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line moves off in Japan.
Photographs: Kimimasa Mayama/Reuters
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United Kingdom
Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 104.69 ($1.94)
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Image: London Metro.
Photographs: Tompagenet/Wikimedia Commons.
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Australia
Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 105.76 ($1.96)
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Photographs: Reutrers.
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United States
Public transport (minimum fare): Rs 107. 92 ($2.00)
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Image: A man punches another man dressed up as 'Punch Me Panda' inside the subway system in New York City.
Photographs: Lucas Jackson/Reuters.


















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