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High speed rail service connecting Kyiv and Odesa and Kyiv and Lviv would cost $16 billion and take at least a decade to implement

Friday, June 1, 2018
High speed rail service connecting Kyiv and Odesa and Kyiv and Lviv would cost $16 billion and take at least a decade to implement

High speed rail service connecting Kyiv and Odesa and Kyiv and Lviv would cost $16 billion and take at least a decade to implement, Anton Sabolevsky, Ukrzaliznytsia director for strategic development and investment policy, tells Interfax-Ukraine. At present Kyiv trains to Odesa pass through Vinnytsia, making for seven hour train rides. Fast trains traveling at up to 250 km an hour on a direct route would take two hours.

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