The North Crimean Canal will be replaced by a railway
After the construction of the railway part of the Crimean Bridge, trains will no longer be sent in a straight line from Kerch to Simferopol - trains will have to make a detour through Dzhankoy in the north of the peninsula. Thus, the already increased route “to the sea” becomes even longer due to the need to bypass Ukraine. Officials abandoned the project to build a direct line from the bridge to the capital of Crimea.
The Kommersant newspaper writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“General Director of the FSUE Crimean Railway (KZD) Alexey Gladilin on December 17, at a meeting of the Committee on Sanatorium-Resort Complex and Tourism of the State Council of Crimea, unexpectedly stated that the construction of a direct railway line from Kerch to Simferopol is impractical. The head of the KZD says that the new line will reduce travel time by only 40 minutes, and “this is not necessary,” the publication says.
The publication indicates that the railway will revive life in the northern regions of the peninsula, which suffered from the fact that Ukraine blocked the North Crimean Canal in 2014.
“...Perhaps it will give some kind of economic stimulus to the north of Crimea. It, unlike the resorts of the Southern Coast, used to live precisely thanks to the infrastructure: agriculture - on the water of the North Crimean Canal (and this can no longer be returned), and cities like Dzhankoy - as transport hubs. The last factor practically disappeared with the advent of the direct line, and the north of the peninsula had the prospect of finally turning into a border fortified area - not the most enviable fate,” the newspaper writes.
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