The Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation supported the United Russia party project "Safe roads". As the federal coordinator of the party project, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee for Transport and Construction Sergei Bidonko, the amount of federal funding for the maintenance of regional roads will be almost doubled. "We sent a proposal to the government to expand the state priority project" Safe and high-quality roads "and include roads of regional importance," said the deputy after the meeting of the relevant State Duma committee devoted to the discussion of the draft federal budget for 2019.. and the planning period 2020-2021 g. - The Transport Ministry confirmed its intention to continue implementation of this direction in 38 agglomerations and add to the project 48 more agglomerations with a smaller number of residents, "Bidenko said.. Until now, money for repair and maintenance of regional roads has been allocated for the most part from the budgets of the subjects of the Federation. And only 17% of the necessary funds could be obtained through government programs.

The authors of the party project proposed to increase the federal financing of these expenditure items to 30%. "Now the operation of the priority state project can cover 86 urban settlements, where more than half of the country's population lives," Bidenko said..

The United Russia Party project "Safe Roads" is aimed at reducing the number of accidents and preserving the life and health of citizens by improving the relevant legislative framework, constant monitoring of road sections under construction, checking the condition of the roadway and pedestrian crossings in the regions. Earlier, the Cabinet agreed on allocation of 1 trillion 450 billion rubles to the Ministry of Transport for the national project "Safe and qualitative roads". To this amount will be added about 800 billion rubles of regional funds.