Kielce Bus Station Dworzec autobusowy w Kielcach | |||||
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 Kielce Bus Station under reconstruction as of January 2020 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Czarnowska 12 25-504 Kielce Poland | ||||
| Coordinates | 50°52′32″N 20°37′18″E / 50.87556°N 20.62167°E | ||||
| Owned by | City of Kielce | ||||
| Operated by | Zarząd Transportu Miejskiego | ||||
| Construction | |||||
| Architect | Edward Modrzejewski | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Website | dworzec | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 20 July 1984 | ||||
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Kielce Bus Station (Polish: Dworzec autobusowy w Kielcach) is a bus station in Kielce, Poland. It is a novelty architecture type of a building, shaped to resemble a UFO.[1] Opened in 1984, it was seen as one of the more modern bus stations of its kind in Poland at that particular time.[2][3]
The station is built upon a large roundabout of 89 meters in diameter providing room for 15 platforms each of 18 meters length (the largest legal length of a bus in Poland and most of Europe). An additional island increases the number of platforms by 3, also providing night-time operation when the main building is closed. The main building of circular shape with a dome is located in the center of the roundabout. It is accessed by two tunnels beneath the roundabout - this feature provides maximum safety as pedestrian and bus traffic never cross each other.