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Kryvyi Rih Metrotram
The Kryvyi Rih Metrotram (colloquially: Kryvyi Rih Metro), officially the Kryvyi Rih Rapid Tram (Ukrainian: Криворізький швидкісний трамвай, romanized: Kryvorizkyi shvydkisnyi tramvai) is a partially underground rapid transit light rail system that serves the city of Kryvyi Rih, the seventh-largest city in Ukraine. Similar systems in other parts of Europe are known as pre-metro or Stadtbahn.
The design of the Metrotram seen in Kryvyi Rih has its roots in the socialist urban planning guidelines that were formulated in the 1960s, based on models of the emergence of new urban centers and the transport arrangements that would suit them, in particular, how a small settlement would grow into a full-sized city, and at which point a rapid transit system would need to be built.[citation needed]
At the time, Kryvyi Rih already had a developed tram network, but like most urban centers, overcrowding and widespread congestion proved too much for the light rail to serve as the main transport arteries. Moreover, the city was destroyed in World War II and rebuilt, with all the requirements of a modern city considered in planning. The city was chosen to test whether the construction of a full-scale metro system could be avoided by adopting a light rail design for a socialist city, one that uses tram rolling stock but meets the standards of the metro. Also, the Metrotram was intended to serve only an interim, albeit necessary, role, with provision for conversion into a full rapid transit system.[citation needed]
The project was developed in 1972 by the Kharkiv Institute "UkrkomunNDIproekt", the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services of the Ukrainian SSR and "Kharkivmetroproekt" of the Ministry of Construction of the Ukrainian SSR. According to Soviet standards, the construction of the metro was envisaged only in cities with a population of over a million, but the population of Kryvyi Rih in the 1970s was only about 700 thousand residents.
Construction began in 1974. In Kryvyi Rih, the Metrotram route was built from scratch, with most of the section running along the surface, except for underground sections in the city center wherever needed. All of the underground dimensions were made with provision for eventual conversion into a full metro system.
Each metro station is an architectural monument for its neighborhood, in the style of late Soviet architecture.
On 26 December 1986, the first stage of construction, a 8 km (5.0 mi) long segment, opened with four stations, "Maidan Pratsi", "Zhovtneva", "Maidan Artema", and a temporary stop near today's "Mudriona" station. This metrotram network became the third underground rapid transit system in Ukraine, after Kyiv and Kharkiv metros.
Between 1988 and 1989, a second segment opened southwards with "Budynok Rad" opening first on 13 February 1988, while "Prospekt Metalurhiv" and "Kiltseva" opened on 2 May 1989.
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Kryvyi Rih Metrotram
The Kryvyi Rih Metrotram (colloquially: Kryvyi Rih Metro), officially the Kryvyi Rih Rapid Tram (Ukrainian: Криворізький швидкісний трамвай, romanized: Kryvorizkyi shvydkisnyi tramvai) is a partially underground rapid transit light rail system that serves the city of Kryvyi Rih, the seventh-largest city in Ukraine. Similar systems in other parts of Europe are known as pre-metro or Stadtbahn.
The design of the Metrotram seen in Kryvyi Rih has its roots in the socialist urban planning guidelines that were formulated in the 1960s, based on models of the emergence of new urban centers and the transport arrangements that would suit them, in particular, how a small settlement would grow into a full-sized city, and at which point a rapid transit system would need to be built.[citation needed]
At the time, Kryvyi Rih already had a developed tram network, but like most urban centers, overcrowding and widespread congestion proved too much for the light rail to serve as the main transport arteries. Moreover, the city was destroyed in World War II and rebuilt, with all the requirements of a modern city considered in planning. The city was chosen to test whether the construction of a full-scale metro system could be avoided by adopting a light rail design for a socialist city, one that uses tram rolling stock but meets the standards of the metro. Also, the Metrotram was intended to serve only an interim, albeit necessary, role, with provision for conversion into a full rapid transit system.[citation needed]
The project was developed in 1972 by the Kharkiv Institute "UkrkomunNDIproekt", the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services of the Ukrainian SSR and "Kharkivmetroproekt" of the Ministry of Construction of the Ukrainian SSR. According to Soviet standards, the construction of the metro was envisaged only in cities with a population of over a million, but the population of Kryvyi Rih in the 1970s was only about 700 thousand residents.
Construction began in 1974. In Kryvyi Rih, the Metrotram route was built from scratch, with most of the section running along the surface, except for underground sections in the city center wherever needed. All of the underground dimensions were made with provision for eventual conversion into a full metro system.
Each metro station is an architectural monument for its neighborhood, in the style of late Soviet architecture.
On 26 December 1986, the first stage of construction, a 8 km (5.0 mi) long segment, opened with four stations, "Maidan Pratsi", "Zhovtneva", "Maidan Artema", and a temporary stop near today's "Mudriona" station. This metrotram network became the third underground rapid transit system in Ukraine, after Kyiv and Kharkiv metros.
Between 1988 and 1989, a second segment opened southwards with "Budynok Rad" opening first on 13 February 1988, while "Prospekt Metalurhiv" and "Kiltseva" opened on 2 May 1989.
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