With the number of cars in Kyiv expected to increase by 60% by 2025, the city has adopted a $3 billion, 5-year transportation program.

With the number of cars in Kyiv expected to increase by 60% by 2025, the city has adopted a $3 billion, 5-year transportation program. Heavily oriented toward non-car mobility, the program calls for buying 400 trams, trolleybuses and electric buses by 2023. Bicycle paths, removal of cars from sidewalks, better marketing of the subway system and linking Left Bank and Right Bank tram networks are elements of the plan recently approved by the City Council. Andriy Strannikov, chairman of the Council’s Budget Committee, tells Interfax-Ukraine: “Now the capital’s bridges are overloaded, the tram network is degraded, and there is no associated bicycle infrastructure in general.”