True, if transport will be stopped throughout the city, concrete stops will still have to be found.
During the next month, the Transport Department of the Kyiv City Council together with “Kyivpastrans” will determine the places for installing concrete stops-shelters, where passengers who will be dropped off from public transport during air alarms should hide. This is stated in the corresponding decision of the city council dated August 10.
Moreover, as follows from the explanatory note to the document, these should not be just shelters, but comfortable premises for waiting for public transport. It is also proposed to provide free internet at such stops.
However, if transport will be stopped throughout the city, concrete stops will still have to be found. They are planned to be installed only in crowded places.
“To develop a List of places with the largest concentration of passenger traffic for the arrangement and creation of a fund of civil defense protective structures,” the explanatory note says.
The size and capacity of such stops in the explanatory note not specified.
Funding sources are also missing.
At the same time, on the “Kyivpastrans” website, you can find information that in the year of total quarantine 2020, Kyiv's passenger transport transported 212 million citizens. And, for example, in 2017, passenger ground transport carried 453 million people.
And this is all you need to understand about the Kyiv City Council's initiative to establish shelter stops.
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We would like to remind you that from August 1, in Kyiv, during air alarms, all ground public transport was stopped.
“Only a person who never uses it could come up with the idea of stopping public transport during an emergency,” – this is how the citizens of Kyiv reacted to the initiative of the city authorities. And registered a petition to cancel the decision.
By the way, the petition easily gained the required number of votes and is now in under consideration.
At the same time, it later turned out that one type of transport – the city electric train, ignored the know-how of the Kyiv authorities, and continues to work during alarms. The reason turned out to be simple – the train is not subordinate to Kyiv, but has its superiors in another department – in “Ukrzaliznytsia”. the capital's minibuses were also not very affected by the ban, and continue to transport people, regardless of the announced alarms.
Apparently, the Kyiv authorities borrowed the idea of concrete stops from Kharkiv, which is under constant artillery fire. On July 25, the mayor of the city, Ihor Terekhov, announced that reinforced concrete structures will be installed on the busiest routes of trolleybuses, buses and trams in case of artillery fire. Such shelters exist, for example, in Israel.
This is how they see this project in Kharkiv .
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