Crimean authorities have failed to repair roads and are not allowing companies from the mainland to enter the peninsula
The Crimean authorities have failed in the task of repairing roads, while access to the peninsula is blocked for companies from the mainland with successful experience in road construction.
Former deputy chairman of the Supreme Council of Crimea Mikhail Bakharev, who traveled by car to St. Petersburg, writes about this in an opinion article in the newspaper “Krymskaya Pravda”.
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According to him, on the road to Kerch he did not see a single road worker or equipment.
“We traveled through 17 regions of Russia and the Vitebsk region of Belarus. Everywhere the road work was large-scale and around the clock...
We spent the first night in a motel outside Krasnodar. The noise and rumble on the road made it difficult to sleep. The next morning I asked one of the road workers, who ran into the motel cafe to drink coffee, what kind of emergency it was.
– In summer, every hour is precious. “We will work around the clock until the coldest weather,” I heard in response.
Residents of Rostov and Krasnodar are completing the construction and reconstruction of Federal Highway No. 4 “Don,” which stretches from Moscow to Novorossiysk. Most of it has already been done. In the Moscow, Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh regions, where the new highway does not coincide with the old one, that is, there is an alternative, travel on the new highway is paid. Next year the highway will be completely built. But even today it is a pleasure to drive along it; the highway is not inferior to the best world standards.
Road work does not stop even in rainy weather. Asphalt is not laid, but soil is moved, construction materials are brought in, and waste heaps of crushed stone and sand are placed along the roads. The scale of the road works is perhaps the main impression of the trip. And only in Crimea, where, as it turns out, the roads were the worst 16 years ago, and today they have become even worse, no one is doing anything. I can neither understand, nor explain, nor accept this,” Bakharev noted.
At the same time, the former vice-speaker of parliament assures that local authorities do not want to accept help from third-party road workers who do not work in Crimea: “Last year, at the request of friends, I tried to help Stavropol road construction entrepreneurs obtain a general contract in Crimea. They were ready to move two asphalt and concrete plants here and spend up to 20 billion rubles in a year. They outlined their proposals in a letter addressed to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, who instructed the Ministry of Transport to study the proposal, but the Stavropol residents have not yet received a response.”
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