Travel across the bridge across the Kerch Strait may be subject to a toll
Moscow - Simferopol, May 30 (Navigator, Mikhail Stamm) - The project for crossing the Kerch Strait, which will connect Crimea with the Krasnodar Territory, has been added to the development program of the state company Avtodor. After the feasibility study for the construction is ready in the fall, officials will decide whether travel on the crossing will be paid or free, RBC writes.
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The company is faced with the task of “developing a feasibility study for the construction of a transport crossing across the Kerch Strait,” as follows from the updated program approved by the government published yesterday. There is no decision on whether there will be a toll on the bridge, said an Avtodor representative. It will appear after the project is completed and the construction financing scheme becomes clear.
At the end of March, JSC Giprotransmost won the competition for the development of a feasibility study (TES) and engineering surveys; the work was estimated at 384 million rubles. and must be completed by November 1.
If we were talking about another region, the PPP format would be relevant for it, therefore, a paid project would be possible, but in the case of the bridge to Crimea, the authorities are unlikely to expect a return on investment, suggests Mikhail Burmistrov, general director of the INFOLine - Analytics agency. In his opinion, the key task of the authorities, which the transport transition will help solve, is to ensure transport accessibility of Crimea and integrate it into the Russian economy as quickly as possible.
Now you can get to the peninsula by plane through Simferopol or by ferry from the port of Kavkaz; the railway connection between Russia and Crimea through Ukraine has not yet been established. “We need both a road and a railway bridge there,” said President Vladimir Putin in mid-March. This may not be a bridge, but a tunnel, Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov added. He estimated the cost of the bridge at least 50 billion rubles, and the bridge with the railway at least 100 billion.
By 2020 About 11 thousand cars and 20 pairs of trains will cross the bridge per day, and by 2044. – 9 thousand cars and 34 pairs of trains, said the head of Avtodor Sergei Kelbakh at a meeting on May 27.
The idea of building a bridge across the Kerch Strait was discussed by Ukrainian and Russian politicians in the 2000s. In 2010 An agreement was signed to build a bridge, but these plans were not implemented. A new agreement was signed in December 2013.
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