Petition against transport fare hike in Kyiv gathers 6,000 signatures in one day

In less than a day, city residents collected more than 6,000 signatures on a petition calling for the cancellation of new fares on Kyiv’s municipal public transport.

This was reported by RBC-Ukraine, citing the petition on the Kyiv City State Administration website.

The cause of the outrage was the officially announced intention, published on May 18, to introduce a new fare model for Kyiv’s municipal transport. It is planned to launch on July 15, 2026 — after all regulatory procedures have been completed.

The proposal envisages a radical overhaul of the payment system: the price of a single-ride ticket would jump to 30 hryvnias, while the cost of a trip using a transport card would range between 25 and 30 hryvnias (€0.49–0.58). In addition, a 90-minute transfer ticket would be introduced at 60 hryvnias (€1.19), and an unlimited monthly pass would cost 4,875 hryvnias (€95).

The petition’s author, Oleksiy Ksenich, points out that this is not a cosmetic adjustment but a sharp increase in the cost of a basic city service under martial law, when people’s incomes are extremely unstable.

The petition has gathered 102% of the required number of signatures. The appeal must now be reviewed by the city’s mayor and the relevant committees of the Kyiv City Council.