VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Travel by car between the Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod Regions in the vicinity of Murom and Navashino currently requires the use of a pontoon bridge.
The limited capacity of the bridge and its seasonal closure limit freight traffic in this area and result in delays due to the fact that vehicles must often wait to cross. In addition, to get to the bridge, drivers must pass through the city of Murom, which causes congestion in the city streets.
The total length of the projected Murom bypass, which would be divided into two sections, amounts to 22.6 kilometres.
The first 13.3-kilometre section, the Kasimov - Murom - Nizhny Novgorod highway, needs renovation. The second section in the northeast is a 9.3-kilometre long bridge over the Oka (2.4 kilometres of which are in the Vladimir Region, and 6.9 kilometres of which are in the Nizhniy Novgorod Region). This bridge is what is called an atypical bridge, a category that refers to elaborate, uniquely designed bridges.
Between 2006 and 2009, almost 4.2 billion roubles were allocated from the federal budget to the Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod Regions (2.7 billion roubles and 1.5 billion roubles, respectively) for the construction of a bridge bypassing Murom. The Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod Regions provided 1 billion roubles and 0.5 billion roubles, respectively, from their own budgets.
The bridge will considerably reduce the distance vehicles heading to southern Russia via the М7 Volga highway must travel. It will also ease traffic in the Moscow transportation hub and on the highways leading to the east of Moscow (the М7 Volga) and to the south of Moscow (the М2 Crimea, the М3 Ukraine, the М4 Don and the М6 Caspian Highway).
