Revitalizing Bus Stops: Challenges and Solutions
In the city of Odessa, employees of the municipal enterprise «City Roads» are actively engaged in repairing bus stop complexes. Unfortunately, vandals frequently leave graffiti, break benches, destroy trash bins, and smash glass walls of the stops. These damages can also result from traffic accidents and hostile actions.
Since the beginning of 2025, 31 instances of glass breakage have been recorded at public transport stops, with 7 more stops damaged due to hostile attacks. Employees also clean up graffiti and notices left on the walls of the stops.
The municipal enterprise «City Roads» is responsible for 1,012 public transport stops.
As part of their maintenance duties, specialists regularly conduct sanitation cleaning of the adjacent areas, repair and restore bins, benches, and shelters, as well as wash and paint them.
The Odessa city council once again appeals to residents and visitors to treat community property with care. Intentional destruction of municipal property is punishable by law.
Criminal Liability for Damage to Municipal Property
Criminal Code of Ukraine
Article 194. Intentional Destruction or Damage to Property
1. Intentional destruction or damage to another's property that causes significant harm is punishable by a fine of up to fifty (850 UAH) tax-free minimum incomes of citizens, or community service for a period of one hundred twenty to two hundred forty hours, or corrective labor for up to two years, or imprisonment for up to three years.
Article 296. Hooliganism
1. Hooliganism, which is a gross violation of public order motivated by blatant disrespect for society, accompanied by particular audacity or exceptional cynicism, is punishable by a fine from five hundred (8500 UAH) to one thousand (17000 UAH) tax-free minimum incomes of citizens, or arrest for up to six months, or restriction of liberty for up to five years.
2. The same actions committed by a group of individuals are punishable by restriction of liberty for up to five years or imprisonment for up to four years.
