Finish the Small Bypass Road and Bortnychi Station: Iryna Vereshchuk Unveils New Vision for Kyiv's Development

She plans to focus on transport and construction.

People’s Deputy and Kyiv mayoral candidate Iryna Vereshchuk (Servant of the People) presented the programme “5 Years – 5 Steps,” in which she outlined the projects she will focus on as city mayor if she wins.

What Iryna Vereshchuk offers Kyivans:

1. reconstruction of the Bortnychi aeration station
2. construction of a small bypass road
3. construction of a waste processing plant
4. creation of a network of park-and-ride lots at the city entrances
5. construction of social housing.

According to Iryna Vereshchuk, each project will have clear deadlines and people responsible for its implementation.

In her view, the reconstruction of the Bortnychi aeration station (BSA) is needed not only by Kyiv but by the whole country, because it will show foreign investors that Ukraine is ready to fulfill its obligations. As is known, Japan allocated a $1 billion loan on preferential terms for the BSA reconstruction five years ago, yet a general contractor has still not been determined and work has not started.

As for the construction of the small bypass road, Vereshchuk considers her “highlight” to be access to the president, the prime minister and the leadership of Ukravtodor, which will help her bring to life a project that has been discussed for several years but called “impossible.”

Also among the plans of the mayoral candidate — increasing the amount of public transport in the capital many times over, creating a comfortable space for everyone, restoring order and cleanliness in the city, and fighting illegal construction.

In her pre-election statements, Iryna Vereshchuk says there will be no “miracle,” but unified rules for everyone and constant work on the city’s development will help make Kyiv innovative, safe and eco-friendly within 5 years.