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Ukraine: Day Three

July 1, 2013

Posted by Kanga.

A rather low key day spent wondering about, looking at our surroundings. Most of the time spent sitting, eating, and talking.

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Public transport is old, noisy, and bumpy, but it is reliable and cheap. You might want earplugs for riding on the subway train, but it will only cost 2 Hryvnia ($0.25 US or 0.90 AED) to ride to any destination on the three lines. To ride the trolley buses (electric) it will cost you a whopping 1.50 Hryvnia ($0.18 US or 0.67 AED) for a single ride for any distance. Both the trains and the buses run on frequent schedules. During peak times, the trains run at 3 minute intervals and off-peak 6 minutes, or so. (Back when I was travelling by public transit in Portland Oregon, the intervals were 10, 15, 20 minutes and more off-peak.)

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I Love You on the Bus

June 1, 2009

I sometimes take the bus to work here, and during one such excursion I came across this amusing bit of graffiti. Rather odd as it was in the very back of the bus where only men would normally be riding. Not too common to see graffiti on the bus anyway, but this was one of the older buses that is still in service. They’ve been adding a lot of buses to the fleet so a growing percentage of the buses you see out there are shiny and new. And well air conditioned!