Not all voters supported the initiative to increase the permitted speed: 15,783 people (29%) voted against, 14,993 (28%) supported only certain items of the list, and only 23,082 (43%) fully approved the innovation. However, the new leadership of the traffic police made a balanced decision and reduced the list from 21 sections to 11, choosing those where the number of dissenters was minimal.
Opponents of the changes reasonably noted that the level of driver discipline and the quality of the road surface are still far from ideal. It is also worth remembering that in Ukraine there is a non-fine threshold for exceeding the speed limit of 20 km/h. Consequently, the permitted 80 km/h almost automatically turns into a hundred, and this is already a fairly high speed for urban conditions.
The Autoportal team positively assesses the initiative of the traffic police and expresses hope that overly risky drivers will not compromise such a reasonable initiative.
Soon it will be possible to move quickly along such road sections:
- Naberezhne Highway (from Poshtova Square to Paton Bridge);
- Naddniprianske Highway;
- Stolychne Highway (from Pivdennyi Bridge to Zabolotnoho Street);
- Saperno-Slobidska Street (from Hrinchenka Street to Pivdennyi Bridge);
- Pivdennyi Bridge;
- Bazhana Avenue;
- Obolonskyi Avenue (from Bohatyrska to Marshala Malynovskoho);
- Highway R-69 (from Ozerna Street to the border of Kyiv);
- Vatutina Avenue (from Moskovskyi Bridge to Kerch Square);
- Horodska Street (from Stetsenka Street to Hostomelske Highway);
- Highway T-1039 (from Hostomelske Highway to Minskyi Avenue).
