Putin launched traffic on new sections in the Moscow and Leningrad regions

On December 22, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched traffic on two new road sections in the Moscow and Leningrad regions.

A new four-lane interchange on the Central Ring Road in the Moscow Region will relieve several important directions at once. It will bypass Mozhaisk and the village of Malye Vyazemy. In order for the flow to go uninterrupted, an overpass over the railroad and a tunnel were built.

"With the opening of this interchange, the situation will change dramatically. Five minutes, and it links the Minsk and Mozhaiskoye highways, " said the governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, in a conversation with Izvestia correspondent Igor Baldin.

Traffic was also launched on the new Vitebskaya interchange in the Leningrad region, which is adjacent to the high-speed diameter. It has six lanes and has a capacity of up to 70,000 cars per day.

"This piece of highway - the future big highway, the first stage of the latitudinal highway - will improve the transportation accessibility of the south, southeast of the Northern Capital, " Putin said.

Both sections were built within the framework of the national project "Safe and High-Quality Roads", a large-scale federal program scheduled until 2030.

Within the framework of the program it is also planned to extend the M-12 highway. Now they are building its part - the Dyurtuli-Achit high-speed road, which will pass through the territory of Bashkiria, Perm Krai and Sverdlovsk Oblast. The entire M-12 project will be completed by 2030. Then the highway will reach Mongolia, DPRK and China and become the longest in Russia.

"This highway will be developed. We are improving it, widening it from two to four lanes. We are making bypasses of populated areas. We will have 50 bypasses of settlements by 2030," added Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin.

Earlier, on December 22, the Governor of Krasnodar Region Veniamin Kondratiev announced the launch of a new highway A-289, which will reduce the travel time from Krasnodar to the Crimean bridge to two hours. He noted that the expressway was built in a record two years.

On the same day, Putin called the opening of new highway infrastructure facilities in the regions evidence of the continuous development of the country's transportation framework. At the same time, he pointed to the good pace of development of Russia's road network and key highways.

Prior to that, on December 12, the Russian government approved a plan for the construction of new federal toll roads until 2030. The total amount of funds for the facilities will increase by 20% - from 877 billion to 1.052 trillion rubles.