Putin wants to drive the wheel on the Kerch bridge
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he plans to drive the wheel on the Kerch bridge after it is completed.
It is reported by Interfax.
Responding to a question from Director Stanislav Govorukhin, Putin said: “Yes.”
In turn, the question of where he was, but would really like to visit, the Russian President called Chukotka.
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We will remind, to build a railway approach to the Kerch bridge from the annexed Crimea will appoint a company of a friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin, “SGM”, billionaire Arkady Rotenberg, who is driving the bridge itself.
Money for the project “stroygazmontazh” has received in 2015 as an advance. Then the power transferred to the contractor 48.9 billion rubles. The entire project is 228.3 billion rubles., In 2016, planned to spend 65.4 billion rubles, in 2017-m — 60 billion rubles, in 2018 — 40,8 billion rubles and 13.1 billion rubles in 2019.
As the newspaper notes, the bridge across the Kerch Strait is an expensive and technically difficult for Russia. Open competition for the design was not.
Media are reminded that Russian President Vladimir Putin said about the need to build a road and rail bridge across the Kerch Strait, 19 March 2014, immediately after the annexation of Crimea by Russia. The working traffic on the bridge is scheduled to open in December 2018, and finally to hand over the facility in June 2019.
The length of the bridge will be 19 km. road will four lanes with a maximum speed of 120 km/hour. Capacity — 40 thousand cars a day. Maximum speed double-track railway will be 160 km/h.
