Kyiv authorities plan to launch shuttle service on the Blue Line on December 13: what is known

Kyiv authorities plan to launch shuttle service on the Blue Line on December 13: what is known

Kyiv  •  UNN

December 11 2023, 05:30 PM • 161686 views

The shuttle service is currently being tested at night. After that, a train schedule will be developed. According to him, it is planned to launch the shuttle service on the Holosiivska line as early as December 13.

Shuttle service will be tested in Kyiv starting December 13. subway traffic on the Lybidska-Demiivska section to reduce the load on on ground transportation. This was announced by Ruslan Kandybor, Director of the Department of Transport Infrastructure Ruslan Kandybor, Director of the Department of Transport Infrastructure of the Kyiv City State Administration, on the air of one of the Ukrainian TV channels, reports correspondent of UNN.

Details

According to Kandybor, it is planned to to launch two trains on two tracks to organize "shuttle traffic" from Lybidska station to Demiivska station.

Currently, the shuttle service is being tested in night mode. After that, a train schedule will be developed. According to him. he said, the shuttle service on the Holosiivska line is scheduled to start on December 13. on December 13.

"We are still considering two trains to run on two tracks and it will be an interval of 30 to 15 minutes. Each train will run with an interval of 15 minutes," Kandybor said.

Kandybor added that the city authorities want to reduce the the load on ground transportation, which currently transports passengers between Holosiivska and Demiivska metro stations.

"We will also understand that some of the passengers will switch to this shuttle train and reduce the load on the bus service, where we will then take away some ground transportation and and transfer people to the subway," Kandybor said.

The authorities want to clearly calculate the schedules of train schedules and make them accessible to passengers.

"We would not want to mislead people and and say that it will be some kind of interval... we will clearly calculate the schedules, clearly we will clearly inform, we will make a schedule so that a passenger who wants to use it understood at what time they need to come to the station," added the deputy head of OF THE KSCA.

As a reminder

In Kyiv, since December 9, for the urgent repair of the repair of the distillation tunnel, it was announced that the metro stations from "Demiivska and Teremky metro stations will be closed. According to preliminary data, the repair will last 6 months.