The existent railroad transportation formula of the Krasnodar territory will be reviewed, Transport Minister Igor Levitin said according to Itar-Tass.
“The local transport infrastructure will be enlarged in conformity with the program of transport modernization in 2002-2010 and the federal program of the Sochi resort development,” he said in an answer to an Itar-Tass question.
“This is the first transport project of the kind in a Russian constituent, the Krasnodar territory, where about 600 billion rubles worth of construction works will be done by 2014,” he said.
Millions of tonnes of construction materials will be supplied for the future building of Tuapse and Sochi bypasses, tunnels and four-eight-lane thoroughfares, the minister said. “The railroad cannot handle so much cargo alone,” he added.
Levitin asked Krasnodar railroad chief Yevgeny Gorlakov to open new railroad cargo terminals for the transshipment of road metal and other construction materials.
He also asked authorities of the Novorossiisk, Tuapse and Sochi seaports to consider the deliveries of construction materials by sea.
A new toll road, Abinsk-Kabardinka, will be built as an alternative to the Krasnodar-Novorossiisk federal route, Levitin said.
The construction will be done by three phases, Russian Roads Federal State Department Director Oleg Shakhov said. He said they will build a 33.6-kilometer road between Abinsk and Kabardinka, including 13 bridges and three flyovers. The total cost of the project is 117.5 billion rubles.
In the opinion of Shakhov, the expenditures will be compensated in eight years. It will cost one ruble to travel one kilometer on the plain, and three rubles to travel one kilometer in the mountains.