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Tickets Are not Sold for Batumi-Tbilisi Train

November 6, 2007

Since November 2, tickets for Batumi-Tbilisi have not been sold at the booking office of the Batumi Railway Station. The reason is the current political events in Georgia.

The cashiers say that all tickets are sold; however, the trains leave the station empty. The security guards of the station confirm the situation in private conversations.

Levan Kaikatsishvili, the head of the Makhinjauri Central Railway station stated that there was a temporary delay in the computer system.

In Batumi, in addition to the railway station booking office, tickets are sold at the post office and in Jorjiashvili Street. However, recently it was impossible to buy a ticket there too for various reasons.

Yesterday, only 30 passengers managed to buy tickets in the presence of media representatives. A representative of the inquiry office at the Makhinjauri Railway Station stated that 70 % of tickets were sold. However, the train consists of ten carriages and there are 36 seats in each of them.

Maka Malakmadze, Batumi 

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