Zaporizhia tram

The Zaporizhia Tram is a tram company in Zaporizhia in southern Ukraine . It was opened on June 17, 1932 and built in Russian broad gauge .

history

Due to the Second World War , traffic was idle between 1943 and October 12, 1944. After the end of the war, extensive expansion of the network began. From December 22, 1949, trolleybuses were also used in the city. At the beginning of the 1990s, a total of 300 vehicles were in service on the tram and carried around 31,000,000 passengers. In 2003 there were 140 vehicles left that were in service on 13 lines, and in 2017 there were 120 vehicles on 8 lines.

Like many other public utilities in Ukraine, the company cannot cover its costs through ticket sales as a large number of passengers (pensioners, schoolchildren, students, etc.) travel for free. There are no longer any trams on the Sobornyj Prospect main road in the city center. One after the other, the rails are removed. The reasons for the decision were the micro-cracks caused by vibrations, which endanger the historical building fabric and the increased volume of traffic in the city and the associated risk of accidents for passengers disembarking in the middle of the street.

Web links

Commons : Zaporizhia tram  - collection of images

• https://zet.zp.ua

Individual evidence

1. ^ Zaporozhye tram ( memento of March 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Elektro-Ukraine: an encyclopedic handbook / Sergei Tarkhov, Bone Kozlov, Aare Olander - Kiev: Sidorenko VB, 2010. - 912 pages: Il, ISBN 978-966-2321-11-1