Municipal enterprise Kyivskyi Metropoliten has suspended the operation of a five-car train made by the Kriukov car building works (Kremenchuk, Poltava region), company head Petro Miroshnikov told the press.
“We have removed the train from operation, because forcible exhaust ventilation in it does not make passengers feel comfortable there. In other words, there is simply not a breath of air,” Miroshnikov said.
In his words, low-capacity ventilation is working in the train, and there are no air gates for usual aeration. That is why when hot weather established, passengers started complaining of gasping for breath.
Miroshnikov noted that the designers of the train at the works are out to settle this problem within 30 days, failing yet to say when operation of the train may resume.
Now the train is staying at the subway depot – there is no need to transport it back to the works to remove the shortcoming.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Kyiv’s subway in January began running a subway train of five cars made by the Kriukov works on the Syretsko-Pecherska line.
Kyivskyi Metropoliten received the train in 2006 to test it and pass a decision together with a government commission on its serviceability for serial production.
In June 2008, the Kriukov car building works launched batch manufacture of subway cars.
