OREANDA-NEWS. April 19, 2013. At a regular session the Government will consider the program of building and repair of speedways for 2013-2014. Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov announced during the sitting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

 “During the nearest session of the Government we will consider the course of implementation of the program which clearly defines: what we will build and overhaul the current and following year. Which will be the stages of works. Which are the new requirements to the class and quality of roads. The Government will control calculations of cost of construction of roads, creating of material and technical base of road building, triggering production of national bitumen and other materials. We will estimate measures on preserving the existing network of motorways at the account of planned repair and determine the norms of quality of such repair activities. In addition, we will take a decision concerning reforming of state management of motor roads, in particular distribution of functions in designing, building and putting in exploitation,” Mykola Azarov informed.

Besides, according to him, the Government is to control implementation of a commission of the Finance Ministry, Ministry of Economic Development and Ministry of Infrastructure concerning applying mechanisms of state and private partnership and concession for building of motor roads in 2013.

“As the volume of tasks is considerable. In the nearest years we have planned to build and reconstruct 2 600 kilometers of international transport corridors, to overhaul 1 300 kilometers and make current repair of 30 500 kilometers of public and local roads. And to erect a motor bridge in Zaporizhzhya,” the Premier stressed.

At this, he accented it is necessary to liquidate factors of risk in 253 places where a huge number of accidents occur. It is needed to build, for instance, ring roads around Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Simpheropol, Lubny, Reni, Dunayivtsi. “But all this is a little part. Apart from the determined work, the Government must consider issues: what additional resources, what state and local reserves can be applied so that to significantly increase amounts of road construction works. And it is crucial,” Mykola Azarov urged. 

Moreover, he continued that the current year the problem of roads was urgent, as it had been never before as winter of 2012/2013 was the most severe for the last hundred years: “There took place so many transitions from plus to minus temperatures during which moisture gets into cracks and ruins the covering, that we can say without exaggeration that from November through April we have lived over not one but 8 winters at once. The abnormal winter has put a stop in compromises with regards to quality of roads we build. I have said already: we are not so rich to build “one-off roads”.