President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych met with Chairman of the State Road Service (Ukravtodor) Volodymyr Demishkan to talk about priorities and problems,
particularly with finding additional funds for repairing old roads and
constructing new ones, if it needs Government’s support in terms of
improving current legislation, etc..
The President stressed that except main highways, local and rural roads need attention too, presidential press office reported.
The Ukravtodor Chairman said that the industry was brought to
bankruptcy by the previous Government. "Now, with the help of court
decision, we canceled the restructuring and, given the difficult
economic condition of the road sector, have begun to take steps to
improve the situation," he said.
Today, Volodymyr Demishkan
said, the priority is to ensure effective and “continuous” work of the
industry and bring all 170 thousand kilometers of roads in Ukraine to a
normal state. But special attention, according to him, is dedicated to
organizing transit traffic, as Ukraine is proven to have outstanding
transit potential. "We are working on it, and already have the program
of works for 2010," he said, adding that the program often "corresponds"
with the preparation of Ukraine for hosting Euro 2012 finals.
"Already in 2010 we plan to put 720 km of roads into operation. Many of
them are the main directions of our transit routes," said Volodymyr
Demishkan. According to him, this applies to Kyiv - Lviv highway (60 of
its 240 km part will be put into operation by the Independence Day),
ring road around Luhansk scheduled to be completed in October, 100 km of
Kharkiv bypass road, Zhulyany airport approach road to be put into
operation in three months, etc.
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