Over the next month, the Transport Department of the Kyiv City Council, together with Kyivpasstrans, will determine the places for the installation of concrete shelters, where passengers should hide, who will be disembarked from public transport during air alerts. This is discussed in the relevant decision of the City Council dated August 10..

Moreover, as follows from the explanatory note to the document, it should be not just a shelter, but comfortable rooms for waiting for public transport.. It is also proposed to conduct free Internet at such stops..

True, if transport will be stopped throughout the city, then concrete stops will still have to be looked for.. They are planned to be installed only in crowded places..

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The size and capacity of such stops are not given in the explanatory note..

Funding sources are also missing.

At the same time, on the Kyivpasstrans website, you can find information that in the year of total quarantine 2020, Kyiv passenger transport transported 212 million citizens. And, for example, in 2017, passenger ground transport transported 453 million. human.

And that's all you need to understand about the initiative of the Kyiv City Council to install shelter stops.

Recall that from August 1 in Kyiv during air alerts began to stop all ground public transport.

“Only a person could come up with the idea of \u200b\u200bstopping public transport during alarms, he never uses it,” this is how the people of Kiev 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 under consideration..

At the same time, it later turned out that one type of transport - the city 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 superiors in another department - in Ukrzaliznytsia.

In addition, as you can see in Kyiv during the alarms, the capital's minibuses are also not very imbued with the ban, and continue to transport people, regardless of the announced alarms..

Obviously, the Kyiv authorities borrowed the idea of \u200b\u200bconcrete stops from Kharkov, which is under constant artillery fire.. On July 25, the mayor of the city, Igor Terekhov, announced that reinforced concrete structures would be installed on the busy routes of trolleybuses, buses and trams in case of artillery shelling. There are such shelters, for example, in Israel.

This is how they see this project in Kharkov.