Russian road research Institute of the Ministry of transport has created a new draft Standard which will regulate the roads with increased speed limits, writes " Kommersant ".
It is noted that the draft of the New standard will establish requirements for traffic management on motorways and high speed roads, With the New standard have the opportunity to approve in the last month of the summer.
according to the publication, the speed limit have the option to pick up from 110 kilometres per hour to 130 kilometers per hour, if it decides the owner of the road. Such areas At this point in time there is only the " Avtodor ". The Agency is considering increasing speed to 90-110 miles per hour on 44 sites of Federal roads.
"High speed, as a rule, allowed on the roads of the first category, this includes 12% Federal roads. In this documentary signs for the introduction of such speed limits do not exist, say the developers of the standard, the New standard introduces them for the first time ", - stated in the publication.
on this site, Under the project during the year may not be the foci of an accident, that is less than three accidents on mile stretch. The allowed rut depth of less than fifteen millimeters. Also there are required to use variable message signs to the master of the road in the pouring rain, storm, Blizzard could lower the speed limit.
Avtodor already applies this rule on the part of stations. Mode 130 kilometres per hour have the opportunity to enter across the road or in one direction depending on time of day, day of week and month. However, When excessive rutting or high accident enhanced Mode set speed cancel.
The new standard introduces requirements to areas to stop. So, if shoulder width is not more than five feet, then every three to five miles, depending on the number of lanes on the road are required to be organized in areas More than 3, 75 meters wide, which is separated by a wide dividing strip from the road some. In addition, the standard gives recommendations to narrow the left strip in the six - way and at least with the current highways 3, 75 meters to 3, 5 meters for "leveling" speed of traffic.
according to the information research center of safety of traffic of the Ministry of interior, the limit of 130 kilometers per hour on European roads is already working in Germany, Denmark and France. Anyway last summer on the French highways that are not motorways, the speed was lowered from 90 to 80 kilometres per hour. In Germany Also reduced the number of highways with "unlimited" speed modes.
Also, according to the newspaper, the development of a standard is conducted on the background of discussions between the government, traffic police, Ministry of transport and experts on the issue of speed limits. The authorities of the Russian capital pushing for the abolition of the "nestratova" threshold of 20 kilometers per hour. However, the State Duma and the Cabinet declare that the necessary revision of existing regimes of speed, so then you can introduce limits.
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