Within the Lviv agglomeration, common rules are being prepared for concessionary travel for residents of surrounding municipalities to Lviv. The issue was officially supported at the latest session of the Lviv City Council, according to information from the Office for Agglomeration and Community Development.
Deputies of the Lviv City Council voted to organise cooperation with 12 territorial communities in the field of public transport to implement a joint project. Primarily, this concerns regulating transport for concessionary categories of residents of the communities that are members of the association “Lviv Agglomeration”.
This association includes the Pidberiztsi, Bibrka, Davydiv, Murovane, Velykyi Liubin, Zhovkva, Kulykiv, Novyi Yarychiv, Horodok, Obroshyne, Pustomyty and Zhovtantsi communities.
As explained by the head of the Office for Agglomeration and Community Development, Nataliya Aleksiieva, every day residents of these communities travel to Lviv for work; they belong to concessionary categories and are potentially payers of personal income tax into the city budget. Therefore, there are plans to discuss whether the communities are ready to partially reimburse the cost of free travel for their concessionary passengers and to determine a mechanism for distributing the financial burden between the communities.
Together with the Department of Urban Mobility and Street Infrastructure of the Lviv City Council, specialists will work out a detailed mechanism for compensating concessionary travel on transport within the Lviv community.
To this end, a special commission will be set up in the near future. It is to prepare specific agreements with each community and draw up the final timetable for introducing the new rules.
According to the Office for Agglomeration and Community Development, the communities are also interested in jointly developing the transport network within the Lviv agglomeration; however, broader changes in future will require corresponding legislative innovations.