Major road projects in 2018

The onset of 2018 preparing for the Russians several important innovations, some of which have been promised many years ago

Development of transport infrastructure is one of the most expensive items of the Russian budget. Forbes has made a selection of the most important changes in the transport sector in the coming year.

1. Flights to Egypt

The promise of the Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov could not resume air communication with Egypt not to be on the first line of our collection of the most-high profile vehicles at the 2018 What else? Several million Russian tourists and tour operators are waiting for this for two years. In 2014, according to the Ministry of Tourism of Egypt, in the country rested 3 million Russians, and in 2017, despite the lack of air traffic, as of September, in Egypt rested more than 75 000 Russian tourists.

Thus, according to the Minister, air traffic can be resumed as early as February 2018. To start the aircraft can fly on the route Moscow - Cairo, where it will be possible to get straight to the tourist in Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada is not reported, although tour operators hope that the holidaymakers will be able to send these resorts as early as July 2018. So you can begin to pack your luggage.

2. The construction of the Moscow central diameter

Grand, dare I say it, a project - an attempt of the Moscow authorities to make the same explosive transport hub, as the Moscow central ring. According to the project, trains routes will go through the city center and is connected to the radial direction of the Moscow railway. By and large, the creation of MCD rather reconstruction of the existing infrastructure, its complement and expand than building a new one. Already diametrical connections connected Kursk, Smolensk and Riga, as well as Savelovo and Smolensk areas. The first line to be built under the project will connect the frontal and Odintsovo. It is planned that the first passengers it can take as early as 2019. The most active work will begin just in 2018, so this project and ended up in our list.

According to the plans, the MCD will approximate the level of comfort to the MCC: single city ticketing system, easy navigation, accessibility for the physically challenged citizens, integration with MSC and subway, comfortable train level "Swallows", which ply the ICC, by arriving every 6 minutes during rush hour and so on. n. this project will be spent on the first phase of 40 billion rubles from the treasury of Moscow and Russian Railways.

3. A single transponder for all toll roads Russia

For the people, a lot of traveling on toll roads in Russia, there is good news. In 2018 do not have mold on the windshield multiple transponders. Russian operators of toll roads sat down, talked, and yet have come to the common decision: the main thing that the fare paid and do not cause traffic jams at the entrance, and only someone in this device will be used - it is the fifth. Thus, drivers can pay for travel on any toll road transponder country of any operator. The system will start to work with the January 15, 2018.

By the way, for Muscovites "Avtodor" has prepared another Christmas gift. From December 30 to the end of January 2018 the transponder owners will be free to move on the highway M-11, Moscow, Solnechnogorsk in the night and the morning from 1:00 to 6:00.

4. The Crimean bridge

Of course, we can not say about a bridge across the Kerch Strait. Especially that according to research by VCIOM, namely the issue of construction of the bridge tops the list of the main events of the country according to the Russians. Car traffic on the bridge across the Kerch is planned to start in December 2018 and the first trains will travel in a year - in 2019. However, in late December, it became clear that due to an error in the project, concerning the ground for the construction of roadbed, the cost of the bridge will increase by another 3 billion rubles, but the Transport Ministry vows that the announced deadlines will not be thwarted.

After completion, the bridge across the Kerch Strait will be the longest in Russia - 19 km (the longest over-water bridge in the world - Tsindaossky bridge, located in China, and its length 42, 5 km).

In mid-December, it ended with a vote for the name of the bridge to the Crimea: 64% of the votes received Crimean bridge. This name will appear on maps and information signs. 24% of the votes received Kerch Bridge, 6% - Bridge of Reunion. Also the names of the following options were proposed: Russian, Liberty Bridge, the Bridge of Unity, Bridge of Hope et al.

5. The construction of BCM

Construction of high-speed rail (HSR) "Moscow-Kazan" from Moscow to Vladimir scheduled for 2018. Unfortunately, the launch of a highway is planned in 2023, and the road to Kazan come no earlier than 2025.

Provided that for the first time spoke about the project in 2008, and the first high-speed rail project was presented in 2010, the construction site already provides at least some hope for the possibility of implementing the project, which will spend about 1, 5 trillion. BCM "Moscow-Kazan" will be held on the territory of seven Russian regions and will connect the capital of the region into a single track length of 770 km with stops at 16 stations. Due highway travel time between Moscow and Kazan will be reduced from 12 to 3, and 5 hours. It is assumed that the train will follow the highway at a speed exceeding 250 km / h.

It is also planned that the high-speed rail projects between Moscow and St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, Yekaterinburg (followed by the inclusion of Perm, Ufa and Chelyabinsk) and the route from Moscow to Rostov-on-Don, Adler will be implemented until 2030.

By the way, the former Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said in 2013 that the project SCM "risky", and the calculation of passenger traffic on the line is inaccurate. But Alexei Ulyukayev was the "risky". One can only hope that the fate of high-speed rail will not appear the same sad, as the final career of ex-Minister of Economic Development.