The Deputy Prime Minister, Marat Husnoulin, held a meeting on the implementation of the Ring Road-2 project around St. Petersburg. The participants discussed the progress of the preparation of the area as well as the prospects for developing the urban planning potential of the adjacent areas.
The Ring Road-2 project is implemented on behalf of the President. Its launch will have a huge impact on improving the transportation situation of the entire agglomeration. The new highway will ease the congestion in the existing ring, where the volume of traffic already reaches 200,000 vehicles per day, and will accommodate transit flows, including cargo from the ports of the Baltic Sea, Arkhangelsk and Murmansk.
"The length of the first phase of the construction of the ring road-2, including a bridge over the Neva River, will be over 80 km. In total, the project provides for the construction of more than 40 bridges and overpasses. I am confident that the 2nd Ring Road will become a reliable framework for the entire transportation system of the Northwest."
Marat Husnoulin noted.
The project will be carried out by the government company Avtodor. The chairman of the board of directors of Avtodor Vyacheslav Petushenko said that the implementation of the large-scale infrastructure project Ring Road-2 will begin before the end of this year.
"We have already received positive conclusions from the FAU Glavgosexpertiza of Russia on planning documentation for preparatory works. In December we will start preparing the construction site in the section from M-11 Neva to the St. Petersburg-Murray highway. In general, the KAD-2 project includes the construction of a highway of category 1B: from the M-11 Stokes Neva highway near the Mat-11 Stokes Neva highway. Kozmolovo".
- stressed Vyacheslav Petushenko.
The road will help to redistribute transit flow and relieve congestion on the existing ring road A-118 and A-120 "St. Petersburg South Ring" with high traffic volume.
The meeting was also attended by Transport Minister Dmitry Yadrov, representatives of the Federal Road Agency and the Government of the Leningrad Region.