LA: 0.46 meters/s (1 mph)
Hong Kong: 0.75 meters/s (1.7 mph)
Kyiv: 0.9 meters/s (2 mph)
Kinda slower than I expected in general. I assume the speed is mostly dictated by boarding/alighting safety.
Hong Kong: 0.75 meters/s (1.7 mph)
Kyiv: 0.9 meters/s (2 mph)
Kinda slower than I expected in general. I assume the speed is mostly dictated by boarding/alighting safety.
[1] https://visitkyiv.com/visitor-essentials/kyiv-shelter-map/
When building them, they probably didn’t expect to be hiding from Russian attacks.
The USSR didn’t bomb it’s citizens all that often did it?
The building of the subway wasn’t done by an independent Ukraine though, it was done under the rule of the USSR.
The Warsaw Pact was the eastern bloc's answer to NATO. They were also in Comecon, their version of the EEC.
Not to be confused with Comicon.
Kyiv metro is one of the deepest in the world. We have one station that is 105 meters deep. So even with fast escalators, it feels like an eternity to go up and down there.