PM Modi speaks to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy on Kyiv-Moscow conflict, bilateral relations
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Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the city has spare buses for free ground transport but lacks drivers, responding to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's plan for free fares in the capital.
Zelenskyy told Prime Minister Serhiy Koretsky to draw up a free-fare program and a sufficient reserve of buses for Kyiv, the president wrote on Telegram.
According to Klitschko, Kyiv now has 129 bus routes with 418 buses and 685 drivers after trams and trolleybuses stopped running.
The city's Kyivpastrans could add 25 working buses, but that would need at least 50 more category D drivers, Klitschko said.
Replacing the metro's passenger capacity would take up to 1,020 buses, and buses cannot match the metro's regularity because they share roads with private cars, Klitschko said.
Klitschko also said the government should first repay Kyiv over 8 billion hryvnias owed for 11 years of subsidies for carrying passengers with benefits.
“Kyiv has buses to add. There are no drivers! Maybe the police will round them up, like they did the electricians?”
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