OREANDA-NEWS. November 08, 2011. The Lviv railway has identified Railway Development Strategy for the next 7 years - significantly upgrade rolling stock, to upgrade travelling facilities and to improve staff operation. The railroad men have discussed plans and future projects during celebrations on the occasion of the 150 anniversary of the Lviv railway, which taken place on November 7th, 2011. The Lviv railroad workers were congratulated by the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine - Minister of Infrastructure Borys Kolesnikov on the occasion of their holiday.

Implementing the State target program of reforming of a rail transport on 2010 – 2019, the Lviv railroad communications will primarily introduce changes in the technological process, will lead re-structuring of the subordinate units and their optimization taking into account actual volumes and directions of traffic, will bring automation to jobs and will implement new technologies.

There are in the plans of railway and technical re-equipment of objects of an infrastructure - upgrading of railway lines in directions of international transport corridors, in particular, building in 2011-2014, new two lined electrified tunnel at 1639 km race Beskid - Skotarske on the direction of the 5th International transport corridor, at the expense of European Reconstruction and Development Bank loan funds.

Also in the coming years - to conduct update and major repair of a railway infrastructure in directions: Lviv - Striy - Slavske, Uzhgorod - Chop - Batovo - Slavske, Ivano - Frankivsk - Striy. The modernization will be carried out in accordance with approved National Programme for Development in Ukraine sports and tourism infrastructure in 2011-2022, respectively.

The reconstruction of the station complexes Lviv, Lutsk, Ivano - Frankivsk will begin in 2012. It is planned to build automobile overpasses on the section Ternopil - Lviv by means of the state budget funds.