The monthly subway ticket will rise to 40 yuan ($4.80) from 18 yuan starting Monday and the single-journey ticket will rise to two yuan from 0.5 yuan, a subway official said. Current prices have been in place since 1991.
The city government is expected to pay a subsidy of 400 million yuan in 1995 to keep the subway system going, up from 250 million in 1994, the subway official said.
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