By KYIV. Jan 5 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrainian cities received 52 trolleybuses in 2022, including 30 new and 22 used ones, the AllTransUA portal reports on Facebook.
"The year of a full-scale invasion affected the urban public transport systems in Ukraine: the war significantly slowed down the development of transport in the rear cities and led to the degradation and destruction of frontline ones," the report says.
As reported with reference to AllTransUA data, in 2021, 170 trolleybuses were delivered to the cities of Ukraine, of which only three were used.
Last year, deliveries of new trolleybuses were mainly the end of deliveries to Lutsk (17 units) and Mykolaiv (four units), which were financed by international financial institutions.
In addition, Vinnytsia (three units) and Chernivtsi (five units) purchased new trolleybuses at the expense of local budgets – in both cases, these are PTS trolleybuses from Politechnoservice company (Brovary, Kyiv region).
According to the report, Bogdan trolleybuses were in the lead in deliveries of new trolleybuses with a share of 59%. PTS trolleybuses accounted for 27% of deliveries, another 14% were Dnipro trolleybuses (assembled at Pivdenmash).
Used equipment was partly purchased at the expense of local budgets – Vinnytsia (seven units), Ivano-Frankivsk (five units), Ternopil (two units) and Khmelnytsky (one unit), and part received as humanitarian aid – Kharkiv (five units), Chernivtsi (two units).
The report states that Vinnytsia received Solaris Trollino 12S trolleybuses from Lublin, Poland. At the end of 2022, seven machines out of the expected 20 were delivered.
