In 2008, federal budget will allocate RUR 3.3 bln for maintenance of highways in the Leningrad region, Andrei Kostyuk, head of Sevzapupravtodor told the press conference in the regional road committee. In 2007, the federal allocations totaled RUR 1.4 billopn.
Federal roads (Scandinavia, Kola, Market-20, Magistralnaya-120, Narva, Russia) are almost 1,300 kilometers long including 220 kilometers are in accident condition.
The plan for 2008 contains construction of a road around Luga. In 2007 its construction cost RUR million. The road is to be put into operation 2010. Federal resources are to be spent also to solve the problem of motor transport congestion at Torfyanovka border-crossing point. The approach ways are to be reconstructed there with expansion of the road at the crossing point and construction of a parking ground for 400 trucks. There will be four new lanes for trucks built there. The works are valued at RUR 960 million.
The repair of Narva road and Kola road will continue at certain sectors.
As for perspective plans (till 2015), they envisage expansion of М-20, reconstruction of Kola and Scandinavia highways, as well as bridges across Volkhov, Syas and Pasha rivers. There is another priority- construction of the first category highway to the port of Ust-Luga. The feasibility study has been completed by the regional government already and the documentation is being furnished to Sevzapupravtodor for project development and further transfer to the federal level. Such regional roads as St. Petersburg-Priozersk-Sortavala, Vyborg-Svetogorsk and Pargolovo-Ogonki are to be transferred to the federal network.