Prague and its transport company donate 20 trams and two buses to Ukrainian cities iRADIO
The Prague Transport Company (DPP) together with the municipality donates twenty decommissioned trams to the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and two buses to the city of Khmelnytskyi. Prague wants to help Ukraine in the reconstruction of war-torn cities. Mayor Zdeněk Hřib (candidates in the 2022 municipal elections for the Pirates) and his deputy Adam Scheinherr (candidates in the 2022 municipal elections for Praha Sobě) told journalists this on Monday. People in Need will take care of moving the cars.
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DPP will take care of the loading of trams and buses. | Photo: Michaela Danelová | Source: iROZHLAS.cz
“It is an initiative that relates to the necessary reconstruction of Ukrainian cities after their significant shelling and bombing by Russia as part of the invasion of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. It is necessary in order to start the reconstruction of the cities and refugees can return home,” said Hřib
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The movement of the cars will be facilitated by the humanitarian organization People in Need,the rest will be taken care of by transport companies of Ukrainian cities. The trams are currently parked at the DPP premises in Hloubětín, where the company is now building a new depot.
“We have been supporting transport companies in Ukraine for a long time. A few years ago, for example, we donated trams to Mariupol, and now there are 20 trams, namely five T3 trams and 15 T6 type trams, which have been decommissioned in recent years,” Scheinherr explains.
DPP will arrange the loading of trams and buses. “We expect that the cars will not go there all at once, but in several batches. We don’t know when we will start it, it depends on the security situation or free transport capacities in Europe. But we expect that the first one could be in the order of days or weeks,” said DPP CEO Petr Witowski
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