Arkady Dvorkovich held a meeting in Kazan on safe and qualitative roads

(KZN.RU, June 23). Today much has already been done in the framework of the implementation of the priority projects “Safe and qualitative roads” and “Formation of a comfortable urban environment” both in Kazan and in other cities of the country. Arkady Dvorkovich, the deputy Prime Minister of the RF, told this during a meeting on the implementation of these priority projects in Tatarstan today.

The meeting was held in the Tatarstan Government House. Rustam Minnikhanov, the President of the RT, and Ilsur Metshin, Mayor of Kazan, took part in it.

According to Arkady Dvorkovich, additional resources for the implementation of projects allow taking a new step forward. “The increased attention is paid to these projects, on which federal and republican funds have been allocated. The main goal is to improve road safety and create a comfortable urban environment”, he said. “Along with these funds, it is a great responsibility”.

Rustam Minnikhanov, the President of Tatarstan, also marked that both these subjects are relevant for the region, projects on safe roads and the formation of a comfortable urban environment are being successfully implemented, and they are very well received by the population.

Rustam Minnikhanov said that in accordance with the agreement concluded between Tatarstan and Rostavtodor in 2017, a set of measures to bring the road network into the normative state is realized and. As a consequence, the number of road accidents in the Kazan and Naberezhnye Chelny agglomerations is declining.

He reminded that the Kazan agglomeration includes Kazan and 7 municipal districts:  Laishevsky, Pestrechinsky, Vysokogorsky, Zelenodolsky, Verkhneuslonsky, Arsky, and Tyulyachinsky. There are 73 places of concentration of road accidents. The financing of the project is 2.4 billion rubles, including 1.2 billion rubles of federal funds. Repair of 120 km of highways will be carried out at the expense of these funds, and measures to eliminate 52 places of concentration of accidents will be taken.

The Naberezhnye Chelny agglomeration includes Naberezhnye Chelny and a number of adjoining municipal districts, where 27 places of concentration of road accidents are located. It is planned to repair 63 km of roads and eliminate 9 places of traffic accidents concentration within the project. Financing of the project is 1250 billion rubles, including half of the amount from the federal budget. At present, works in the Naberezhnye Chelny agglomeration have already been completed for 578 million rubles or 46%.

Lenar Safin, the minister of Transport and Road Facilities of the RT, made a detailed report.

Natalia Fishman, an assistant to the President of the RT, told about the implementation of the program “The formation of a comfortable urban environment” in the RT, reports the press service of the President of the RT.