Commissioning of the road section of the Crimean bridge positively affected the growth of commodity turnover on the peninsula and helped to improve the route for the transportation of travelers to the region. This was stated by the head of the Crimean parliament Vladimir Konstantinov, noting what effect the life of the Crimeans had on the construction of a transitional object across the Kerch Strait. "This allowed us to increase turnover, reduce logistics costs, improve the delivery of tourists, increase investment attractiveness and give impetus to the development of the Republic of Crimea", - Konstantinova is quoted by the official portal of the bridge. According to Igor Titov, the director of the Department for Transport and Development of Road Infrastructure of Sevastopol, with the opening of the crossing, the traffic on which was launched on May 16, there has been an increase in the tourist flow this year even to the southern capital of the Russian Navy. "Although Sevastopol is quite far from the Kerch Strait, we fully felt the effect of the opening of the movement along the Crimean bridge.

Only officially registered vacationers - already almost 16% more, "- said Titov. He added that the city became even more accessible for tourists, which the Sevastopol are very happy. But even now the construction does not stop, the work there goes round the clock, without days off. The erection of the railway section of the Crimean bridge at the present moment has reached the peak power along the whole route, and these are the same 19 km on 8 sea and land sections.

Almost for 30 months all piles are loaded, 300 of 307 railway supports with a height of 5 to 35 meters are formed, over 110 thousand tons of 160 thousand tons of spans metal structures.

The site for the movement of passenger and freight trains of the bridge with two branches should be completed in 2019.