The Government of Ukraine intends to implement the high-speed railway communication project with the international airport Boryspil not later than December 2018, Prime Minister Vladimir Groisman said, informs the Main with reference to the TCC.
"We have a real technical solution that can be realized by the end of the year. To get to the airport or to Kiev it will be possible for 35 minutes. The ticket costs 80-120 UAH, "he wrote..
At the same time, the Prime Minister specified that the construction of a railway line between the capital and the airport should begin no later than June 1 and be completed in December of this year.
"Today the government and personally Vladimir Groisman entrusted Ukrzaliznytsia's PJSC with the most important task: by the end of the year we have to build a line of fast railway communication with Boryspil Airport. The deadlines are tight, but real - construction should begin no later than June 1, complete - in December 2018, "confirmed later. head of UZ Yevgeny Kravtsov in his Facebook.
According to the data provided by Kravtsov, the amount of investments necessary to implement the project is up to 800 million UAH. Of these, capital investments amount to UAH 720 million. This includes the construction of an overpass (450 million UAH), the construction of a track, platforms, the reconstruction of the contact network and other (100 million UAH), the construction of a depot box (70 million UAH), the technical renewal of rail buses (100 million UAH).
With the help of trains to the airport Boryspil is scraped to unload the Kiev roads (about 1 thousand. auto and 30 buses a day).
It should be noted that the project "Air Express" started to be realized in 2013 - active work was done to prepare for the construction of the liner for the train, which was supposed to connect Kiev and Borispol airport.
In April 2017, Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan stated that Ukraine and China are preparing for talks on the prospects for the implementation of the project for the construction of a railway line to the airport Borispol.
It is known that the cost of building "Air Express" in 2017 was estimated at $ 300-320 million.
As the airport's general director Pavel Ryabikin said, the acute need for railway communication between Boryspil and Kiev will rise in 2020-2021. Such a conclusion in the airport management came, given the growth rate of its passenger traffic.