How can Kyiv Metro run 2-3 minutes peak hour frequency during wartime?

S.Y. LEE

SEP 22, 2023

Note the red timers above the platforms…Credit: УНІАН

I have been hunting a white whale for more than a year.

Nearly exactly one year ago, a tweet went viral for noting Kyiv Metro cut back its headways to a train every 2-3 minutes during peak hours and every 6-7 minutes off-peak due to the Russian invasion. Every 6-7 minutes during rush hours would be an unfathomable dream for U.S. and Canadian passenger rail systems. How was this possible, in Kyiv of all places?

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