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Half Ukraine’s roads ‘poor’

Official estimates suggest that 70% of Ukraine’s highways require capital repairs. Meanwhile, 50% of the country’s highways (80,000km) of highways are in a poor condition. Roads have been made worse by recent bad winter weather. According to Ukraine’s state body Ukravtodor, traffic volumes have also increased 5%/year for the last five years, making the problem worse. And Ukravtodor says that repairs to Ukrainian highways will cost not less than €59.5 billion. Meanwhile Ukraine’s design institute Kievsoyuzdo
July 3, 2012 Read time: 1 min
Official estimates suggest that 70% of Ukraine’s highways require capital repairs.

Meanwhile, 50% of the country’s highways (80,000km) of highways are in a poor condition. Roads have been made worse by recent bad winter weather.

According to Ukraine’s state body 2780 UkrAvTodor, traffic volumes have also increased 5%/year for the last five years, making the problem worse. And Ukravtodor says that repairs to Ukrainian highways will cost not less than €59.5 billion. Meanwhile Ukraine’s design institute Kievsoyuzdorproekt says that 95% of the country’s 16,000 bridges do not meet technical standards and require repairs or replacement.

In 2009, 238km of new highways were opened to traffic.

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