Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko officially responded to a petition from Kyiv residents calling for public transport to be stopped during the Minute of Silence. In his response, Klitschko explained that it is currently impossible to satisfy this proposal due to traffic rules, safety issues, and the intensity of transport.
The petition to honor the memory of the fallen defenders in Kyiv, which quickly gained the necessary number of votes for consideration, received a rather evasive response from the city authorities. Kyiv residents proposed that every morning, a minute before the all-Ukrainian Minute of Silence, a voice explanation be turned on over the loudspeaker - about what should be done during the Minute of Silence. The same recording be broadcast in the metro and in public transport in general, which should be stopped for this time. The main requirement is that people and the life of the city stop for this moment. However, Kyiv will not succeed in becoming an example for all other cities and showing how Ukrainian military personnel should be honored.
The official response to the petition signed by Vitaliy Klitschko states that a sufficient “number of events” are already being held in the capital to honor the fallen soldiers. In particular, the metronome for a nationwide minute of silence is being played on the airwaves of the Kyiv FM radio station and the Kyiv TV company, and the holding of a Minute of Silence in educational institutions during official and working events organized by the Kyiv City Council and the Kyiv City State Administration. The plans include holding “informational, educational and patriotic events” in educational institutions this academic year. Regarding the stoppage of transport, the veiled answer is “no.”.
“Given security issues, the intensity of traffic in the capital, and the requirements established by the Road Traffic Rules, approved by the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated 10.10.2001 No. 1306, the daily suspension of public transport proposed in the petition requires additional study,” the response states.
They promise to implement other requirements mentioned in the petition. Among them, for example, the involvement of business entities, in particular, advertising distributors, in holding a Minute of Silence by displaying relevant information on advertising spaces. In addition, the Kyiv City Council is finally going to study how the territorial automated centralized notification system works. And whether it can be used to broadcast audio or test messages. A separate task that needs to be addressed is the implementation of a system for broadcasting audio announcements about the Minute of Silence in public transport.
Kyiv City Council will also have to consider a project on a city Minute of Silence
As Informator wrote, a draft decision on organizing a city-wide Minute of Silence in Kyiv was submitted to the Kyiv City Council, its author is the Kyiv City Council deputy from the “Holos” faction, a military serviceman Vadym Vasylchuk. Basically, all of the deputy’s proposals are identical to those expressed in the petition, with the exception of one: Vasylchuk proposes not to stop the work of the city metro and electric trains during the Minute of Silence, so as not to disrupt the schedule of city electric transport.
We also wrote about an appeal from People's Deputy Marian Zablotskyi demanding that the capital's authorities erect a monument to the ardent anti-communist Ronald Reagan in Kyiv. It is known that the 40th US president did a lot to defeat the "evil empire", the USSR. A monument in his honor is proposed to be erected on the site of the monument to Vatutin, Lenin or Shchors.
