Road sample - or what will be the other routes after repairs Repair R-46 drivers have been waiting since the 80s. Overhaul on the highway Kharkov-Akhtyrka was not 38 years old. At the same time, the road has the status of a state and connects two regions: Kharkiv and Sumy. It is one of the busiest in these two regions: the load on it reaches 20,000 cars per day, at the time of harvest - up to 30,000.
R-46, without exaggeration, reflects the condition of roads throughout Ukraine. By 2018, emergency, worn out to the holes, in some places on the highway, not only the asphalt remains, but even the foundation under it. This route was one of those 90% of all 170 000 km of domestic automobile arteries, which experts as of 2016 recognized as inappropriate. They were either not repaired during the whole period of operation, or patched.
On October 1, the Kharkov-Akhtyrka highway was officially commissioned.. 100 km of the road done in four months. And now the updated R-46, already reflects the overall road situation in Ukraine. Regional highways repair high quality, modern and safe.
Volodymyr Groysman, Prime Minister of Ukraine:.
"The road of state importance R-46" Kharkiv - Akhtyrka "rebuilt. It takes place in Kharkiv and Sumy. Governmental strategy of capital restoration of roads throughout Ukraine is being carried out as planned.. Funding for work on this route exceeded UAH 1 billion and went according to a separate budget program.. Here they stabilized the land bed, restored the road base, equipped the two-layer asphalt concrete pavement and repaired the bridge structures.. Marking, road signs, barrier fences, safe exits - everything is there. The quality of the work was checked by the specialists of the state enterprise “Road quality control” and scientists of the Kharkov National Automobile and Highway University ”.
Record financing This year, the government has allocated about 46 billion UAH for current and capital repairs of roads.. Of these, 11.5 transferred to repair local roads.
Slawomir Novak, Head of the State Highway Agency of Ukraine:.
"This year we repaired the largest number of roads in the last 5 years - 2100 km. For comparison - in 2014 only 102 km were repaired.
Back in 2016, the Prime Minister of Ukraine launched a program for large-scale restoration of destroyed roads. Already 2018 shows that annually the volume of repairs grows twice. Therefore, before the end of the season of work, the road workers promise to turn over 4,000 km of roads marked “repair completed”.
New approach to the distribution of funds and control Allocated funds through the creation of the Road Fund come directly to the field. This is the achievement of financial decentralization in Ukraine. Therefore, each area itself determines which areas fall under the restoration. And since 2018, Ukravtodor is responsible for the condition of state value roads..
Another significant change was the strict quality control of repairs.. If there are flaws on the road, they are eliminated by the contractor.. Ukrainians will not pay for the alteration. Moreover, Ukravtodor is currently reviewing contracts for 2015-2016, because then the contractors gave a three-year guarantee for the roadbed. Now the requirements for repairmen are tougher: responsibility for the current restoration of the route during 5 years of operation, and the overhaul should serve without damage for all 10 years.
In general, from the repaired roads in 2017, 222 objects were inspected.. The level of deficiencies is at 8%, and contractors will eliminate them..
Again, as an example of the route Kharkiv-Akhtyrka. Here, the stages of commissioning of the object control oragns took a sample of the quality of asphalt (core). It is 28 cm, the thickness of the coating reaches 37 cm.
Nikolay Timofeev, General Director of Motorway-Yug LLC:.
"Never in Ukraine for record-breaking deadlines have they restored a highway of such length - more than 100 km in four months. 800 thousand restored. square. roads. More than 500 employees worked in two shifts.. Attracted more than 300 units of modern technology.. More than 200 thousand used. tons of crushed stone mixtures, 220 thousand. tons of asphalt concrete ".
What to expect next?.
In 2019, the work of repair crews on the R-46 highway will go beyond the borders of Kharkiv region in Sumy region. But in the recovery region will continue. The next in line is the completion of the Chuguev-Cretaceous highway and work on the Kiev-Kharkov-Dovzhansky section is Lugansk. And also one of the most worn out tracks in the direction of Merefa - Lozova - Pavlograd. And this is only the limits of Kharkiv region..
At the same time, the government is gradually abandoning the outdated practice of patching.. The state targeted economic program envisages by 2022 to connect all regional centers of the country with high-quality roads.. Estimates for this ambitious, but the real project - 322 billion UAH.