The Kyivmetrobud company has completed the construction of a link between the Lybidska and Demeevska subway stations on the Kyiv subway system's Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiiska line.
The Kyiv municipal administration announced this in a statement. "The work on the connecting route between the Lybidska and Demeevska subway stations has been completed," the municipal administration said in the statement. The reconstruction of the upper part of the Lybidska subway station was completed early on June 29.
The work was performed with the aim of connecting the Lybidska subway station to the new subway stations that are being built in the direction of the Teremki residential district.
Kyivmetrobud tunneled a route in the direction of the Demeevska subway station from June 26 to 29.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Kyivskyi Metropoliten, the municipal enterprise that operates the Kyiv subway system, restricted traffic on the Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiiska line during the period of June 26-28 because of construction work on the Demeevska, Holosiivska, and Vasylkivska stations.
In May, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov instructed the Kyiv municipal administration and Kyivskyi Metropoliten to complete the project involving extension of the Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiiska subway line from the Lybidska subway station in the direction of the Teremki residential district in 2010.
The Cabinet of Ministers intends to allocate UAH 400 million for financing completion of three subway stations between the Lybydska subway station and the
Teremki residential district and the Kyiv municipal administration plans to obtain Cabinet of Ministers-guaranteed loans totaling UAH 400 million.
The Kyiv municipal administration has said that the subway segment can be completed in 2010 if there is funding and by July 2011 if there is no funding.
The Kyivmetrobud company began extending the Kurenivsko-Chervonoarmiiska subway line from the Lybidska subway station in the direction of the Teremki residential district in July 2005. The project involves construction of a 3.8-kilometer segment of subway line, on which three subway stations – Demeevska, Holosiivska, and Vasylkivska – will be located.
Completion of the project and the opening of the subway stations were planned for 2008, but they were later postponed to 2009. The Kyiv Mayor’s Office later forecast that the stations would be opened in 2010.
