OREANDA-NEWS. January 16, 2012. The Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov has opened traffic on newly built section of highway "Kyiv-Irpin."

"I am very glad that today, small in scales of the country the task has decided. Further on this road we will launch a trolley bus, we will transfer power lines, and in May it will begin the movement of heavy vehicles this way. For this year we will make project estimates and till the end of the year we will launch driving of trolley buses," Mykola Azarov said.

Thus, he underlined that today movement of cars and buses open on this road.

In addition, the PM stressed that last year for the first time for 20 years of independence it is constructed 2 thousand kilometers of new highways.

However, he said, the length of automobile roads of Ukraine is 180 km, of which 60-70 thousand - are motorway and road of the state value.

 "180 thousand km – is a total length of all our roads, main roads of 60-70 thousand km. To put in order them in the near future, we need to build about 10 thousand kilometers of roads per year, that is five times to increase road construction volumes," Mykola Azarov emphasized.

At the same time, the Head of Government stressed what really to increase level of wages and pensions it is possible at the expense of economy development, in particular it would be promoted by implementation of scale infrastructural projects.

"We necessarily should build, develop and modernize the country, and only then it will give us the opportunity to rise on the real basis both pensions and wages. While we will not build new factories, bridges, roads, there will be no reliable basis for social development," Mykola Azarov noted. Thus, he stressed that it is common international practice.