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The Prime Minister of Ukraine must prepare a program of free travel on Kyiv's ground transport and create a sufficient reserve of buses. Earlier, the Kyiv City Military Administration stated that buses alone cannot fully replace the electric transport, which stopped after the attacks. The program and the reserve are needed in case of subway outages or problems with bridges over the Dnipro, said President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Currently, the capital is calculating how much transport will be needed for backup schemes and determining on which city sections it will be necessary to change traffic patterns. The president spoke about this after a video conference during which Prime Minister Serhiy Korovetsky discussed Kyiv's problems.
The government should also prepare concrete measures to support the uninterrupted and reliably accessible operation of the city’s ground transport. The timing, number of buses, conditions of the program, and sources of its funding were not named by the president.
Currently, a one-time ride on Kyiv's communal ground transport costs 30 UAH: such a tariff has been in effect since 15 July. According to calculations by the Kyiv City State Administration’s Department of Economy and Investments, the economically justified tariff for 2026 year would be 44,14 UAH for ground transport and 64,60 UAH for the metro.
Under the capital's free travel program, about 1,1 million Kyiv residents could benefit. The city budget for 2026 year allocated almost 875 million UAH to its compensation, including 181,7 million UAH for pupils, students, and cadets.
The Northern Bridge in Kyiv was closed after a Russian attack on 7 November. According to Zelensky, it was targeted by six ballistic missiles, four struck. After a technical inspection, the bridge will be partially opened: on the left bank, buses and cars will move along two lanes, and on the right bank — along a single lane for passenger transport only.
Due to the critical situation in the energy system after Russian shelling, in Kyiv on 3 November the ground electric transport movement was suspended once again, and some routes began to be duplicated by buses.
About how to preserve cross-Dnipro connectivity during attacks on bridges, in the ZN.UA article “Will Kyiv’s bridges withstand it, or About the Interaction of Government and Society,” writes Oleksandr Serhiienko, PhD in Physics and Mathematics, director of the analytical research center “Institute of the City.”
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