Klitschko should pay for losses of public transport in Kyiv, not passengers - expert
The announced increase in fares for public transport in Kyiv could have been avoided if a lockdown had not been introduced in the city or if the transport had at least been provided with modern air conditioning systems.
Economic expert Yuriy Gavrilechko stated this on the Ukrlife.tv channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We have losses because passenger traffic has decreased. So walk around the Kyiv city administration screaming “Klitschko, where is our money?” Whoever introduced the lockdown should pay for it, not you and me. Complaints should be addressed to those who created the problem. Every decision, every mistake has a first and last name, as well as a position.
Why was such an idiotic management decision made? But because in Ukraine for four years now there has been no executive authority whose functional responsibility was to develop anti-epidemiological and quarantine measures. That is, there is no sanitary and epidemiological station, and as a result, there are no specialists who could explain what needs to be done in the event of an epidemic.
30 years ago, in civil defense classes, I was told that a disease that spreads by airborne droplets spreads very poorly in dry air and spreads well in moist air. The air in the metro is air conditioned, which means it is dry. Consequently, in the subway the transmission rate of any disease is much lower than in any other mode of transport.
This is school knowledge. Is it possible to provide the same dry air in other vehicles? Yes, it is possible, within a year it was possible to provide absolutely all public transport with air conditioning systems, but this has not been done. And no one is responsible for this.
If the sanitary and epidemiological service were restored, the chances that neither the metro nor public transport would suffer losses would increase. But alas. And losses are the price we pay for two idiotic management decisions. The first is the formed sanitary and epidemiological service, the second is the introduction of absolutely inadequate restrictive measures,” summarized Yuri Gavrilechko.
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