Editing Minsk (section)

=== Rapid transit ===
[[File:Станция метро Вокзальная 1.jpg|thumb|[[Vakzaĺnaja (Minsk Metro)|Vakzalnaja]] station in the [[Minsk Metro]]]]
{{Main|Minsk Metro}}
Minsk is the only city in Belarus with an underground [[rapid transit|metro]] system. Construction of the metro began in 1977, soon after the city reached over a million people, and the first line with 8 stations was opened in 1984. Since then it has expanded into three lines: [[Maskoŭskaja Line|Maskoŭskaja]], [[Aŭtazavodskaja Line|Aŭtazavodskaja]], and [[Zelenaluzhskaya Line|Zielienalužskaja]] which are {{convert|19.1|, |18.1| and |3.5|km|mi|abbr=on}} long with 15, 14 and 4 stations, respectively. On 7 November 2012, three new stations on the Moskovskaya Line were opened and another on 3 June 2014.{{citation needed|date=December 2011}}. Construction of the third line began in 2011 and the first stage opened in 2020. Some layout plans speculate on a possible fourth line running from Vyasnyanka to Serabranka micro-rayons.{{citation needed|date=December 2011}}
[[File:First stations of Zielienalužskaja Line of Minsk Metro.webm|thumb|Stations of the new [[Zelenaluzhskaya Line|Zielienalužskaja line]] on video]]
Trains use 243 standard Russian metro-cars. On a typical day Minsk metro is used by 800,000 passengers. In 2007 ridership of Minsk metro was 262.1&nbsp;million passengers,<ref>{{cite web |date=21 June 2010 |title=CIS Metro Statistics |url=http://www.mrl.ucsb.edu/~yopopov/rrt/maps/statistics.html |access-date=4 July 2010 |publisher=Mrl.ucsb.edu |archive-date=4 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804050310/http://www.mrl.ucsb.edu/~yopopov/rrt/maps/statistics.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> in 2017 ridership of Minsk metro was 284,1&nbsp;million passengers,<ref>{{cite web |date=2018 |title=Метро сегодня |url=http://metropoliten.by/o_metropolitene/metro_today |publisher=metropoliten.b |access-date=14 December 2018 |archive-date=28 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220628214312/https://metropoliten.by/o_metropolitene/metro_today/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
making it the 5th busiest metro network in the [[Post-Soviet states|former USSR]] (behind Moscow, [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]], [[Kyiv]] and [[Kharkiv]]). During peak hours trains run each 2–2.5 minutes. The metro network employs 3,435 staff.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Minsk Metro |url=https://eng.asmetro.ru/metro/metro/minsk/minsk_full/ |access-date=2024-06-25 |website=International Metro Association |archive-date=25 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240625191618/https://eng.asmetro.ru/metro/metro/minsk/minsk_full/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Most of the urban transport is being renovated to modern standards. For instance, all metro stations built since 2001 have passenger lifts from platform to street level, thus enabling the use of the newer stations by disabled passengers.{{citation needed|date=December 2011}}<ref>{{cite web|date=|title=Minsk Metro|url=https://www.belarus.by/en/travel/transport-in-belarus/minsk-metro|access-date=26 June 2021|website=www.belarus.by|archive-date=14 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190914050522/https://www.belarus.by/en/travel/transport-in-belarus/minsk-metro|url-status=live}}</ref>