OREANDA-NEWS. September 06, 2011. The powers of Lviv bus (LAZ) and Lutsky automobile (LuAZ) plants are capable to provide renovation of whole bus park of Ukraine. This was announced by the Vice Prime Minister - Minister of Infrastructure Borys Kolesnikov during a press conference following the results of industry activity for the summer period and for 8 months 2011.

“Having such two super-power factories, we whole bus park of Ukraine can renew within three years if we could run these plants at full capacity”, - Borys Kolesnikov noted.

The Vice Prime Minister has reported that for some years is planned to replace completely fixed-route taxis of small capacity in big cities with the big comfortable buses. “Those who buys minibuses should understand that within 3-4 years of this kind of business in big cities would not be, therefore it is not necessary and to put investments”, - Borys Kolesnikov told. As he said, to stimulate private autocarriers to buy high-capacity buses would be compensation by the state of percent for the credit. “At purchasing of the Ukrainian buses the state will repay the loan interest instead of autocarriers. It is our help not only to Kyiv but also all cities”, - the Vice Prime Minister emphasized.