Kiev unimaginable without the subway - the basic form of public transport capital.It accounts for about 60 % of the total urban passenger transport. Almost half a century subway is the only transport that can provide seamless connection to the remote parts of the city to its center , government agencies , enterprises and train stations .
Kiev Metro rightly regarded as a symbol and decoration of the capital , because of its stations are subject to architectural and cultural heritage , and three of them - Vokzalnaya , Khreshchatyk and Arsenal are the monuments of architecture.Currently, Metro has three existing lines with a total length of over 60 kilometers and 49 operating stations , the platforms are designed to train pyativagonnye . In the center of the line has three interchange node. Accuracy of the timetable is 99.7 % - this is one of the highest in the CIS and the world.
are the most loaded station Vokzalnaya , Forest , Petrovka, Svyatoshyn , near which there are large railway stations and suburban transport routes . Passenger traffic on each of them is about 50 thousand passengers per day.
In order to improve service for passengers in the subway introduced mobile communications, information monitors are installed , which facilitate the use of this transport deaf passengers , video surveillance cameras , the new stations mounted lifts , lifts for those who can not walk up the stairs ,and for passengers with visual impairments at the edge of the platform has been specially restrictive coverage of corrugated plastic that will help them navigate when landing in the car,Now the world standards in the Kiev subway system meets the basic safety of train - a system of automatic locomotive signaling with automatic speed regulation , as well as operational and technological radio , network television screens in subway stations ,control points and signals subway stations with the central control office with computer-controlled management of the stations with the use of technical supervision ,Therefore, taking steps to discharge such stations - designed auxiliary outputs , and transitions.
The basis of the Kiev Metro assigned one of the world's best technologies focused on large volumes of traffic than in the west .All subway lines are equipped with automatic detection of problems that can lead to a crash.
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Administration of Metro is located at: 03055, Kiev, Victory Avenue , 35, above the station Polytechnic Institute Svjatoshynskyi Brovarsky - line.
Department of citizens' appeals : tel. (044) 238-58-55 , 238-58-98 , 238-58-73 .
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