Livoberezhna line (Kiev Metro)

Livoberezhna line (Ukrainian: Лівобережна лінія; literally left bank line) was a proposed fifth metro line of the Kiev Metro system, which was planned to serve the left bank neighborhoods of the Ukrainian capital Kiev. The line is typically colored sky blue on the maps.

Livoberezhna line
Overview
Type	Rapid transit
System	Kiev Metro
Locale	Kiev, Ukraine
Operation
Opened	Under planning
Technical
Track gauge	1,520 mm (4 ft 11 ^27⁄32 in)
Route map Depot Troyeshchyna Vulytsia Myloslavska Vulytsia Tsvietaievoi Vulytsia Saburova Vulytsia T. Draizera Vulytsia Kashtanova Prospekt Vatutina Branch to Podilsko-Vyhurivska Line Horodnia (Troyeshchyna station) Dniprovska (Kiev-Dniprovsky station) Brovarskyi Prospekt (, ) Prospekt Vozziednannia Berezniaky Vulytsia Zdolbunivska Depot Pozniaky Vulytsia A. Ahmatovoi Prospekt Bazhana ( at Pozniaky) Vulytsia Kolektorna Osokorky-Tsentralni Osokorky-Pivdenni

The line was proposed to have a transfer station with metro lines which would connect them to the city's right bank, including the Livoberezhna station of the Sviatoshynsko–Brovarska line and a future undecided station of the Podilsko–Vyhurivska line which is currently under construction.[1] The line was also to have featured connections with existing intercity railway stations.

In April 2014, Volodymyr Bondarenko, the Chairman of the Kiev City State Administration, stated that the proposition to extend a metro line to the city's Troieschyna neighborhood has been abandoned in favor of modernizing the Livoberezhna line of the city's light rail system.[2]

The plan was rejected due to the high cost of building a new metro line. The most recent plan of the future metro lines no longer features the Livoberezhna line, and rather includes the Vyshhorodsko–Darnytska line, another proposed addition to the Kiev Metro system.[3]

References

1. "Livoberezhna Line (planned construction)". Kyiv Metropoliten (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 8 April 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
2. "Kiev authorities have decided not to build a metro to Troieschyna". Ukrayinska Pravda (in Russian). 7 April 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
3. "Perspective map of the metro construction". General Planning Institute of the City of Kyiv (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 3 December 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2014.