LA: 0.46 meters/s (1 mph)Hong Kong: 0.75 meters/s (1.7 mph)Kyiv: 0.9 meters/s (2 mph)Kinda slower than I expected in general. I assume the speed is mostly dictated by boarding/alighting safety.
Kyiv subway stations are also air raid shelters.[1] They may have decided that running the escalators fast to get people to safety is worth the risk.[1] <a href="https://visitkyiv.com/visitor-essentials/kyiv-shelter-map/" rel="nofollow">https://visitkyiv.com/visitor-essentials/kyiv-shelter-map/
> Kyiv subway stations are also air raid sheltersWhen building them, they probably didn’t expect to be hiding from Russian attacks.
Op is probably referring to the history of conflict between Ukraine and Russia specifically, for example when Ukraine lost its war of independence against the Red Army. Stalin purged Ukraine quite thoroughly then by starvation.
For sure Russia oppressed Ukraine. The Holodomor was genocide.The building of the subway wasn’t done by an independent Ukraine though, it was done under the rule of the USSR.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv_Metro" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv_Metro
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Hong Kong: 0.75 meters/s (1.7 mph)
Kyiv: 0.9 meters/s (2 mph)
Kinda slower than I expected in general. I assume the speed is mostly dictated by boarding/alighting safety.
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[1] <a href="https://visitkyiv.com/visitor-essentials/kyiv-shelter-map/" rel="nofollow">https://visitkyiv.com/visitor-essentials/kyiv-shelter-map/
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When building them, they probably didn’t expect to be hiding from Russian attacks.
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The USSR didn’t bomb it’s citizens all that often did it?
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The building of the subway wasn’t done by an independent Ukraine though, it was done under the rule of the USSR.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv_Metro" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv_Metro