11/07/08

Transport and Communications

Drivers to Face New Fee to Drive in Central Kyiv

By Katya Shtamburg, Nova Mova staff writer, from Internet sources.

Car owners Ukraine’s capital will soon need to tight their belts if they drive regularly through the central part of Kyiv. The city’s mayor, Leonid Chernovetskiy, recently announced that drivers will be charged 10 hryvnias (about $1.6 to $2) to drive in the city center.

“Why not?” the mayor said.  “This money will be spent on Kyiv roads and highway improvement.  Any additional revenue will help to improve payment to the transport police officers.”

According to the road statistics, 8,000 cars drive in or pass through the center of Kyiv every day. This, the new fee would add an average of 80,000 hryvnias (about $14,500) to the transportation revenue each day..

Some experts, however, doubt that the plan can be realized. It will take 3-5 years to convince all the branches of government that the city will benefit from this innovation, and local citizens will not suffer. The innovation will influence not those who want to drive into the city center, but mostly those who want to pass through it.  The network of city roads is designed in such way that it is practically impossible to bypass some central highways. For this reason, some officials believe that the burden will fall mainly on city residents.    

Several other European cities already have payment systems for car entrance into the city centers.  For example, in London a driver must pay the equivalent of 70 hryvnias (about $13) to drive in the center.  These measures help reduce traffic, which allows traffic to flow more quickly, conserves fuel, reduces pollution, and saves monuments and other historical places from the effects of exhaust emissions and vibration from car movements.

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