The Government has adopted amendments to the Rules for the provision of passenger road transport services. Now, carriers will have the opportunity to shorten the route at their own discretion if it crosses the front line and choose the destination to which they are ready to take passengers.
Previously, this required new tenders for carriers, which significantly complicated the process of launching buses in the frontline areas.
“We have simplified these rules for several reasons: people have the right to move around the country instead of sitting in transport isolation. Carriers have the right to work instead of fighting with the bureaucracy. This decision will definitely help to save the industry. Our team developed it together with the local authorities of the now partially occupied regions and carriers who are ready to go on the road even in such difficult conditions. Amendments to Resolution 176 were needed so that carriers could legally cut several hundred routes and not enter new tenders. These innovations apply only to those routes that on paper partially pass through the temporarily occupied territories. And these changes will be in effect only for the period of martial law,” said Oleksandr Kubrakov, Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration of Ukraine, Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development.
Currently, due to the hostilities in Ukraine, there are hundreds of routes that cannot be fully covered by carriers. The old system, which required a tender, complicated the process of launching buses. In the past, a carrier could be fined if it cut a route without permission. (Government portal/Business World Magazine)
