Kernes plans to launch Kharkiv metro on May 12
Kharkiv’s mayor is deeply concerned about the city’s metro.
Kharkiv Mayor Gennadiy Kernes plans to resume operation of the Kharkiv metro on May 12. Kernes said this to Strana.
Gennadiy Kernes
mayor of KharkivWe want to launch the metro in Kharkiv on May 12. Not a single country in the world has shut down its metro. Even in Italy and Spain the metro kept running. The Cabinet does not understand this. They believe it is a breeding ground for the coronavirus. But that is not so, because powerful ventilation systems operate in the underground. We are ready to let a limited number of people into each carriage so there is no crowding. Besides, it is a convenient and the most affordable form of transport. The metro must run. In everything else we will synchronize with the government’s orders.
Kernes also noted that he cannot get through to Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.
“The government is acting unreasonably toward the critical infrastructure of cities. We want to convey this to the prime minister, but I cannot get through to him. For a week already... I want to make sure we are spoken to seriously about passenger transport. I am very worried about the Kharkiv metro. The metro exists in only three cities in Ukraine, including Kharkiv. It carries 2 million people. If the Cabinet does not allow the metro to launch now and does not compensate us for losses from the frozen metro, then people need to know who is to blame. And the one to blame is Shmyhal (Prime Minister of Ukraine – Ed.). The losses run into hundreds of millions,” Kernes added.
Earlier, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said that Ukraine’s metro will be fully reopened at the fourth stage of the country’s exit from quarantine, tentatively at the end of June.
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