The road to the Salmachi village opened after major repairs

(KZN.RU, October 27, Mikhail Chentsov). On the eve of the Day of Road Transport Workers in the capital of Tatarstan, the movement was opened after major repairs along the extended road section on Kul Gali Street leading to the Salmachi village. Now the throughput of the road will increase by 50%. Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, and Lenar Safin, the minister of Transport and Road Facilities of the RT, took part in the ceremonial launch of cars on the renovated roadway.

“We received a huge number of complaints at the city and at the district levels. People wrote to the “People's Control” and to the President. The opening of the extended site is a big breakthrough. This is really the road of life for these five villages”, said the Mayor at the opening ceremony.

The most complicated work was done in 5 months. At the first stage, a section of the road was widened up to 6 and 4 lanes. The total length of the site was about 1.2 km. Then, from two to four lanes, the section of the road with a length of 450 m was widened as well. This work was carried out during the most difficult phase of capital repair, the main difficulty of which was determined by the need to re-arrange the product pipelines.

“There was a tangle of problems, not only transport but also technical ones, which were solved by our professional builders and road workers. Special words of gratitude to Rafkat Kantyukov, the head of the” Tattransgaz”, who did the impossible”, said Ilsur Metshin. The Mayor of Kazan thanked his colleagues from the Ministry of Transport, as well as road workers, and congratulated them on the upcoming professional holiday, the Day of Road Transport Workers, celebrated on October 29.

Lenar Safin also noted the contribution of the head of the OOO “Gazprom transgaz Kazan” and marked that it was possible to obtain a window for re-building the pipelines only with his personal participation. “Some people thought that the road builders had been working too long but the problem was that it was necessary to halt almost half of Russia. Production was stopped in Orenburg, and our “Orgsintez” stopped as well. It was a very difficult technical work”, the minister explained the complexity of the task.

He noted that as a result of two stages, it was possible to completely reconstruct almost 2 km of 750 m of the road. In addition to the expansion of roads, reconstruction of water supply, sewerage, communications, electricity, outdoor lighting, traffic lights, the installation of storm sewer networks, the installation of safety fences, bus-stops, road signs, road marking, and others were carried out.

“The innovative solutions were also adopted. For the first time, poles from the polymer were installed. This is a completed site, and we are happy that it will be a wonderful gift to the residents of our city on the eve of the holiday”, said L. Safin.

The inhabitants of the village note that this event was one of the most awaited for them. They said that the first improvements are already visible.

The problem of overhauling the access road to the Salmachi village was repeatedly raised by local residents who regularly get caught in traffic jams at peak hours. In March of this year, Ilsur Metshin announced that work will begin on the expansion of the central street, leading to the village, and the relaying of networks under the roadway in the summer.

The customer of the works was the GKU “Glavtatdortrans”, the contractor was the OAO “Alekseevskdorstroy”, and the designer was the Institute “Tatdorproect”.