"Ukrzaliznytsia" (UZ) opened the sale of tickets for womenʼs compartments, which can be used from June 30 in four directions:
- No. 81 Kyiv — Uzhhorod;
- No. 41 Dnipro — Truskavets;
- No. 75 Kyiv — Kryvyi Rih;
- No. 15 Kharkiv — Yasinya.
The head of communications and marketing of the passenger route of "Ukrzaliznytsia" Oleksandr Shevchenko informed "Babel" about this.
Trains with womenʼs compartments available for purchase will be marked accordingly in the app, and boarding in such compartments will be open only to women and children under the age of six. The fare in the womenʼs compartment is no different from the usual one, the number of tickets per order is also limited to four.
The service will be tested over several months and scaled based on demand and feedback.
At the first stage, you can buy a ticket in the womenʼs compartment through the "Ukrzaliznytsia" mobile application.
- On June 3, a petition on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers calling for separate carriages for women and men in "Ukrzaliznytsia" trains received the necessary 25 000 signatures.