JSC " The press center of Ukrzaliznytsia warns about this in a press release sent to the media on Friday, January 21.

" We plan to leave several of its steps as a museum exhibit and a symbol of the beginning of iron changes on the railway,"

Work on replacing the escalator will continue until April 6 this year.

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It is noted that the new escalator is designed to operate for 30 years without major repairs..

It is also reported that the old lift has transported more than 250 million passengers over the years..

Thus, the new escalator will transport about 120.

5 million people in 30 years, which is more than half as much as the old transport in 20 years of operation (since 2001).

Good news: the new escalator will have an automatic handrail disinfection system, a speed controller, a sensor to stop the stairway when there are no passengers.

" Therefore, we continue to improve our infrastructure,” Alexander Pertsovsky summed up..

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Recall that the current escalators were installed in 2001 during the reconstruction of the station Kiev-Passenger.