Lvivelectrotrans |
| Formation | 1901 |
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| Type | Municipal communal enterprise |
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| Purpose | Transport authority |
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| Headquarters | 2 Sakharov Street
79012 Lviv |
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Region served | Lviv, Ukraine |
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| Owner | Territorial hromada of the city of Lviv |
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Director | Volodymyr Kovaliv[1] |
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| Website | www.let.org.ua/ |
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Lvivelectrotrans (officially "Lvivelectrotrans" Lviv Communal Enterprise; Ukrainian: ЛКП «Львівелектротранс») is the municipal transport company in the city of Lviv, Ukraine. The company is owned and controlled by the hromada of Lviv and has a monopoly on the operation of trams and trolleybuses in the city.[1]
As of September 1, 2022, the network includes 7 tram routes, with the tracks and contact network measuring 81.85 km (2022) and the route network spanning 99.1 km (2022).
In 2021, the trams covered a distance of 3.79 million km for transportation. The trolleybus network consists of 11 routes, with the contact network measuring 136 km (01.2023) and the route network extending to 169 km (01.2021).
Trolleybuses in 2021 completed 3.29 million km of transportation work. By the end of 2021, a total of 24,678,300 paid passengers, including 2,785,623 students, utilized the services of trams and trolleybuses.
Description
The head office of Lvivelectrotrans is located in Lviv on Sakharov Street. Under the leadership of LCE "Lvivelectrotrans", there is one tramway, one trolleybus depot, a car repair workshop, a railroad service and a power network of the contact network. In March 2010, the company was ranked third in the rating of the best electric transport enterprises in Ukraine.
It is a loss-making enterprise, because the state authorities only compensate 60% of the cost of transportation of privileged categories of passengers. In order to remedy this situation, a composting system was introduced in 2008, which allowed a significant reduction in the number of personnel of the enterprise. All the conductors were released, instead, the staff of controllers was recruited (40 people, which is several times less than the number of conductors). To reduce the number of "rabbits" - unpaid passengers - a large-scale advertising campaign is being conducted.
History
So, in November 2008, the advert "Do not be the killer of Bandera" started, the main slogans of which were "Do not be like the killer of Stepan Bandera!" And "Betrayal of Ukraine begins with an unpaid travel!". The ideological basis was that the assassins of Stepan Bandera and Bohdan Stashinsky, had been recruited by the KGB for unpaid travel. Postcards describing this story and campaign slogans came to the home addresses of Lviv's citizens.
Between 2009 and 2010, a campaign was carried out of advertising "Lviv - the city of lions, not rabbits," in which No.1028 tram and trolley bus No.574 received a topical external design, which based Lions on being "courteous passengers who pay travel and rabbits hiding from the controllers".
Projects
Currently, Lvivelectrotrans implementing several development projects with loans from EBRD and EIB. In particular, the purchase of new modern low-floor trolleybuses[2] (50 units of Electron T19) and trams[3] (10 units of Electron T5L64). In recent years there were projects with EBRD on infrastructure reconstruction and rolling stock procurement, in particular, 30[4] used trams Tatra KT4D from Berlin (BVG).
