The bus station in Petropavlovsk fully meets modern requirements. There is a fairly spacious waiting room with enough seats, and you can also sit on the covered boarding platforms before boarding the buses. There are kiosks where you can buy drinks, sweets, souvenirs, etc. and even a small cafe. All this is good and convenient. But flights have been reduced to a minimum, especially after the pandemic. There are practically no flights in the evening or early in the morning, especially for long distances - Novoishimsky, Bulaevo, Sergeevka, Timiryazevo, Kokchetav, Kustanai. But on the forecourt there are dozens of private owners' cars - they shout, they offer to take them anywhere.
But it's wrong and even dangerous to trust your life and health to random people! And people have no other choice if they need to go. And why the administration of the bus station, instead of expanding, on the contrary, reduces its routes. And there is no need to talk about unprofitability, just look at how many so-called "taxi drivers" are standing on the square, I'm not talking about Internet orders in various applications. And if there were enough bus trips, few people would turn to them. Because you're sitting in the square waiting for him to get a full car, when ordering online, you're also waiting for him to pick you up, and then the rest of the city, and then they rush at unlimited speed, not thinking about the safety of their passengers ...
No, it's better to be on schedule and with a proven driver Even if the trip itself is a little longer, according to experience, it still turns out faster and you spend less nerves on indefinite waiting... Not to mention the cost
You can have a snack, passengers are well informed and you can go to the toilet with a ticket for free. I go shopping once a month from retirement. Everything is fine, everything is clean and tidy. polite staff
I did not go inside the station, but the access roads were not cleaned. That's for buses, that's for passengers getting off them. It is difficult for buses to separate, they enter and leave the bus station through one gate. It's not safe, and the first impression of the city from guests who have not been to Petropavlovsk before is, to put it mildly, not the best. Please note, the administration of the Bus Station, that in order for different passenger companies to come to you, you need to meet the basic requirements of modernity.