At the end of November 2025, information appeared about the possibility cancel tram linescaused a wave of widespread public protest. Although the city government claims that the transport proposals are only preliminary, concerns about the fate of electric vehicles have not subsided. Local historian Gennady Krolman emphasized that the state of the current bus fleet raises serious questions.
Activists Ilya Nazdrashov and Artemy Zaitsev continue to actively collect signatures to update and preserve the bus network. Every Sunday they collect signatures on Soviet Square, drawing attention to the issue, reports rostovgazeta.ru. Environmentalists say electric vehicles are an opportunity for improvement environmental situation in Rostov, where the main source of air pollution is cars.
Activists propose to buy 50-100 modern buses using the regional budget. They emphasized that the city's already developed electric bus network could quickly switch to environmentally friendly transport simply by updating rolling stock. According to the announcement, vehicles are the cause of 88.2% of the total pollution emissions on the East River.
