Ilsur Metshin inspects the readiness of road machinery for the winter season

Five hundred seventy-nine snow-cleaning vehicles will be operate on the streets of Kazan in the coming winter. Currently, 481 units or 83% of the total number have been prepared for work in winter conditions. Today, the Mayor of the city Ilsur Metshin visited the territory of the Municipal Unitary Enterprise “Gorodskoe blagoustroistvo”, which is one of the general contracting organizations for road cleaning, assessed the readiness of machinery for the upcoming winter season and talked with drivers.

Ilsur Metshin inspected the vehicle fleet of the Municipal Unitary Enterprise “Gorodskoe blagoustroistvo”, which consists of 136 vehicles. The company is the general contractor for the maintenance of roads with an area of 4.1 million square meters in the Aviastroitelny and Novo-Savinovsky districts. In general, the area of cleaned roads in Kazan is about 22 million square meters, including almost 4 million square meters of sidewalks.

“Only in the last 5 years, the road network have increased by 1.5 million square meters and since 2005, after the millennium of the city, by 10 million square meters. The volume of work is growing, the number of cars is increasing, therefore mechanized road cleaning and the availability of machinery are very important,”- Ilsur Metshin stressed.

For the salting of roads and sidewalks, the Municipal Unitary Enterprise purchased about 9,300 tons of sand-salt mixture and 2,600 tons of reagent. In total, 100% of the volume of the sand-salt mixture has been harvested in the city– this is 73,800 tons, as well as 11,300 tons of two-phase reagent, it is planned to purchase additionally 6,500 of reagent. The safety of the purchased materials is confirmed by the conclusion of the state environmental expertise. It is expected that 12-million sq.m area will be salted.

Since 2021, online monitoring of the snow-cleaning work on the streets of the city has been introduced in Kazan. According to Kamil Zakirov, director of Municipal Unitary Enterprise “Gorodskoe blagoustroistvo”, GPS beacons connected to a unified program are installed on all vehicles. It allows monitoring the movement of vehicles, fuel consumption, operating time and other parameters that are transmitted to the central computer.

On October 15, Kazan road services switched to winter mode of operation. Now, the dispatching services of enterprises operate around the clock. The control of cleaning the streets of the city is assigned to four general contracting organizations.

The preparation of seven snow melting points with a total capacity of 15.6 thousand cubic meters per day is also being completed. With a normal amount of precipitation, this is enough to dispose of snow. In case of the implementation of the Buran plan, 10 temporary snow storage sites are additionally agreed upon.

At snow melting points on Tulskaya St. and Vorovskogo St. in the upcoming winter, a system will be installed in test mode, thanks to which it will be possible to track the volume of snow imported for recycling online.

The automated access control system for snow melting points is going to be tested on the territory of the Vakhitovsky and Privolzhsky districts of the city. The system will record the time of entry and exit of the vehicle, as well as its registration and tonnage.