The head of the Ministry: Ukraine will need about $42 billion over 10 years to rehabilitate the roads

Ukraine has to spend about 100 billion hryvnia (about 4, 2 billion dollars) each year for ten years to repair all roads of state and local importance, said the head of the Ministry of infrastructure of Ukraine Andriy Pivovarsky in interview to the newspaper " ".

according to him, Ukraine in the last ten years, the underfunding for the maintenance of roads is more than 80%.

"For 10 years to revive all the roads of the state value, will be required every year to expend for the repair and maintenance of 40-50 billion USD. Local - another 50 billion. We are aware that we need to do To have normal roads. I really hope that he will vote for a law that will separate them, leaving 49 thousand kilometers of state roads, and the rest will make local roads ", - he said.

along with this, the Minister said that repair of roads in Nikolaev, Kherson, Kirovograd and Odessa areas should Not be implemented until not resolved the issue of weight monitoring.

"It is impossible to compare the consistency of the Lviv and Sumy regions. Nikolaev - Yes, she's as wealthy as Lviv, but in Nikolaev the truck road kill. For this reason We have introduced very stringent limits on the mass of the truck and sent mobile units weight of observation. One of these items stood for no more than 2 hours: during this period of time our inspectors were beaten, and the equipment was almost destroyed. So as long as Mykolaiv, Kherson, Kirovograd, Odessa regions will not resolve the question of weight observation, where roads will not, how much would get invested!" said brewer.

According to Brewer, next year Ukraine will earn more than 70 mobile units to check the weight category. For checking which will work on these points will be monitored by camera.


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