Tashkent Metro Map Mistaken for Official, Though It's a Personal Project

In early January, the Tashtrans.uz website published an updated map of the Tashkent Metro, which was perceived by the media, bloggers, and passengers as official. In reality, the map was created by a private individual, Sergey Kivenko, who has been working on the project for many years. The graphic basis of the map is borrowed from Alexey Menshikov, but all other data-travel intervals, travel time, points of interest-were entered by the author, taking into account real information and user feedback.

The website presents two types of metro maps: a geographical map, existing since 2018, and a graphic map, updated since 2024. The latest version specifies travel times on the Yunusabad and Circle lines, adds suburban bus stations, and new objects-parks, markets, sports grounds-accessible from metro stations. According to Kivenko, the goal of the project is to make using the metro convenient and understandable for passengers by providing up-to-date and reliable information about the capital's transport.

The author plans to digitize the map and integrate it with the 3TM (Tash Trans Trackers Mobile) application, which allows tracking buses and building routes. In the future, the project will allow passengers to see the arrival time of trains at the station in advance, which will greatly simplify planning trips around the city. The main obstacle remains the lack of accurate information about metro train schedules.

Despite the perception of the map as official, the project is non-commercial and supported by the author's funds. Sergey Kivenko notes that he is open to cooperation with the Ministry of Transport and public transport enterprises, ready to accept up-to-date data for the site, and share the map with any organization for free. There is already experience: previously, his suburban train schemes were used in the cars of "Uzbekiston Temir Yullari."

The Tashtrans.uz website contains information about all types of transport in Tashkent-metro, buses, minibuses, trains, and airplanes-with schedule updates, route changes, and fares. The Ministry of Transport welcomes initiatives aimed at passenger convenience and is ready to discuss possible cooperation with the Kivenko project.