“Ukrzaliznytsia” plans pilot projects of inclusiveness of railway stations, starting with reconstruction of historical buildings in Kiev and Lviv, said the head of the project “Bezbar’ierna zaliznytsia” of JSC “Ukrzaliznytsia” Yarema Dul during the National Tourism Summit on Friday in Lviv.
“It is planned reconstruction of these stations, taking into account that these buildings are monuments of cultural heritage, raising the aprons, arrangement of elevators to them. Now the project documentation is being developed,” he told the agency “Interfax-Ukraine”.
According to the head of the project, these stations were chosen as pilot stations because they are leading in terms of passenger traffic served.
“The task is for the passenger to get into his carriage barrier-free. Today we have, for example, in Kiev, only the first platform is high,” he said.
At the same time, Yarema Dul added that part of the platform should remain low, so that it was possible to accept trains with low entrance.
JSC Ukrzaliznytsia will install electric generators and heaters received from the Red Cross Society of Ukraine at railway stations.
As reported in the Telegram channel of UZ, the generators will operate at stations in Zaporozhye (two stations), Vinnitsa, Khmelnitsky, Kamenetz-Podolsky, Berdichev, Rivne, Krivoy Rog (two stations), Kovel, Kolomyia, Mukachevo, Truskavets, Morshyn , Zhmerinka, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Chop, Uzhgorod, Zhytomyr, Mironovka, Chernihiv, Trostianets, Sumy, Kharkiv, Odessa, Cherkassy, Kropyvnytskyi, Ternopil, Lvov (two stations) and at the stations “Taras Shevchenko” and “Darnitsa” in Kyiv.
The total cost of humanitarian aid is about UAH 12 million.
In addition, last week Ukrzaliznytsia received 154 water heaters from the Ukrainian Red Cross Society, which were distributed among 79 railway stations.
