Thursday, November 6, 2014

"Left" bridge over the Don opened after reconstruction in the Rostov region

   The reconstructed bridge over the River Don on the highway M-4 was commissioned in the Rostov region, told "Interfax" with the opening ceremony.

   "More than 50 years ago, was built the bridge across the Don. During these 50 years, he has completely worn out, and demanded his urgent reconstruction. And that was made very timely decision to start actually new construction in the alignment of the bridge, and very fast, a little more than 2.5 years, this place was built. Its length is 1 thousand. 220 m, "- said transport Minister Maxim Sokolov at the opening ceremony.

According to him, the bridge will increase the speed of traffic flow, reduce congestion and reduce tension on the highway M-4 from the center of the country in the direction of the Black Sea coast.

He added that the new bridge takes "another infrastructure constraints on the highway M-4" Don ", which consistently from year to year, object by object, it becomes a model in Russia and meet modern standards traffic"
DonRegion.RU Новый мост через Дон откроется в конце года
   "By 2018, we completely translate the M-4 in the 1-2 category," - said m.Sokol.

Rostov Region Governor Vasily Golubev during the ceremony, in turn, said that the reconstructed bridge begins a series of delivery of objects, including in preparation for the World Cup 2018 football.

"Now, every year, starting from today, the Don in Rostov will appear bridge or a new or reconstructed to 2018 inclusive," - said the governor.

According to the press service of the governor of the region, this transition consists of two bridges, conventionally called "right" and "left", built in 1995 and 1964 respectively. Put into operation last.

Traffic intensity is between 33 th. To 35 thousand. Vehicles per day in different seasons and days of the week, including on the left - 14 or 15 thousand. Cars per day.

Left before the bridge reconstruction had clearance of 7 m with a two-lane roadway. Its size discrepancy existing motion leads to a decrease in the rate of traffic flow, increased vehicle operating costs, the number of APs and the deterioration of the environmental situation. Therefore, it was decided to reconstruct, in which the number of lanes was increased to three.

The cost of the reconstruction of the bridge, which was conducted in 2012 as part of the development strategy of the transport system of the Rostov region, was 2.8 billion rubles.

Chairman of the Board of GC "Russian Roads" Sergei Kelbakh during the ceremony said that during the month will begin repairing the "rules" of the bridge.

"We will try to run it (the bridge - IF) as soon as possible to traffic on this section of M-4 was two bridge crossings, for each of them in a different direction," - he said.

2 comments:

  1. The bridge will increase the speed of traffic flow

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  2. В этом направлении всегда очень плотный поток, особенно летом. Радует, что стараются искоренить вечную российскую проблему

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