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Kyiv Metropoliten in 2017 carried 498.4 million passengers, which is 2.8 percent more than a year ago, the company’s press service has reported.

According to the subway page on Facebook, the busiest station was Lisova. During the year, it transported more than 21.4 million people from Kyiv and guests of the capital. The lowest demand on the red line of the subway was recorded at the Dnipro station, which accepted 986,500 passengers. As a whole, this line consisting of 18 stations carried 208.1 million people.

The second busiest line is the blue one. So, last year it was used by 172.6 million passengers. The maximum passenger traffic here was observed at the Minska station (more than 17 million per year), the minimum at Poshtova Ploshcha (4.3 million).

Nearly 117.7 million Kyiv residents and guests of the capital used the green line in 2017. The largest passenger flows were recorded at the stations Lukyanivska (14.6 million) and Pozniaky (14.1 million), the lowest passenger traffic was at the Chervony Khutir station (1.6 million people).