Construction of bus stops near the New Odesa City Hall postponed until the end of the war

The construction of public transport stops that could be used by bus passengers near the New City Hall on Kosovska Street in Odesa will be possible only after the end of martial law.

This was announced at a meeting of the Standing Committee on Transport and Roads on May 26 by Serhiy Shcherban, acting director of the Department of Transport, Communications and Traffic Organization.

According to him, the problem is that the department is not allocated funds for the construction of new public transport stops in the city until the end of martial law. The military administration has the right to approve the allocation of these funds.

"We are not building bus stops until the end of martial law. We are not approved for funds for the arrangement of bus stops. We submitted projects to DREAM to equip 13 bus stops, but the funds were not approved," said Shcherban.

On the eve of the meeting, Oleksiy Asaulenko, a deputy of the Odesa City Council, posted a video in which he filmed that passengers of the taxis that stop near the New City Hall are forced to get out literally on the road.

In his turn, the head of the commission, MP Petro Obukhov, emphasized that the city hall has received many requests from people asking to equip bus stops. For example, on Stepova Street and Lenselyshche Street.

The commission also discussed parking near Privoz. Deputy Volodymyr Konienko suggested that the parking scheme should be returned to the one that was before, and not along the road as it is now. He argued that drivers sometimes park in several rows. But Petro Obukhov, in turn, denied that there is an underground parking lot in that city, which is almost always almost empty because people don't want to pay for parking. Also, according to Serhiy Shcherban, acting director of the Department of Transportation, additional cars on Panteleimonivska Street are appearing because of the introduction of paid parking lots on Velyka Arnautska Street. Despite the fact that those parking lots are free on weekends, people are used to paying for them and try to avoid it. In the end, they decided not to change the parking scheme.

Кирило Бойко