Kolesnikov: Expect modern trains soon, 12 percent price hikes
Ukraine expects in coming months to recieve modern passenger trains from South Korea’s Hyundai. But domestic factories such as Kremenchuk-based Kriukivsky Rail Car Factory have also started producing modern railway trains and metro trams. President Viktor Yanukovych visited the Kriukivsky factory on Feb. 16 to have a look. (Courtesy of http://www.president.gov.ua)
Ticket prices for Ukraine’s passenger trains will increase in 2012 for some categories of wagons, but the increase will not exceed 12 percent, according to Deputy Prime Minister Borys Kolesnikov.
“The rise in the price of tickets for compartment wagons will reach 12 percent by the end of 2012,” Kolesnikov, who heads infrastructure projects in the government, was quoted by Interfax-Ukraine as saying. However, the price of tickets for second class sleeping wagons will not be increased, he added.
Kolesnikov stressed that Ukraine would soon replace outdated Soviet-designed passenger trains with new high-speed express trains supplied by South Korea’s Hyundai and domestic producers. Hyundai claims to have already completed construction of the first batch. The faster trains, some of which will start operation before the Euro 2012 football championship that Ukraine is co-hosting with Poland, will sharply cut down travel time between Kyiv and cities such as to about five hours, he said.
Ticket prices, he said, will vary. Purchasing tickets for a Kyiv-Lviv train in advance, for example, will cost about Hr 250. Purchase them on the day of departure will cost Hr 280, Interfax-Ukraine reported citing Kolesnikov.
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