Moscow’s road infrastructure timetable to 2016

According to plans for Moscow road infrastructure, issued by the Department of Construction, 215km of roads, 78 artificial structures and around 150 pedestrian underpasses should be reconstructed and built in Russia’s capital by 2016. Around 87.3km of road surface will be renovated and 11 artificial structures will be built on 11 major highways. Another 30.5km of roads and eight artificial structures will open as a part of a new road network project for the development of Skolkovo innovation centre. A fu
August 23, 2013 Read time: 2 mins
According to plans for Moscow road infrastructure, issued by the Department of Construction, 215km of roads, 78 artificial structures and around 150 pedestrian underpasses should be reconstructed and built in Russia’s capital by 2016.

Around 87.3km of road surface will be renovated and 11 artificial structures will be built on 11 major highways. Another 30.5km of roads and eight artificial structures will open as a part of a new road network project for the development of Skolkovo innovation centre. A further 27.6km of roads and 26 structures will be built under the development of the North-West chord. Additionally, 18 road bridges are to be raised and 11 road junctions renovated on the crossroads of outbound routes and the Moscow Ring Road.

Meanwhile, reconstruction of several highways (Yaroslavskoe, Varshavskoe, Kashirskoe, and Balaklavsky prospect/Rublevskoe) will be finished before the end of 2013. Road junctions on Dmitrovskoe highway, Profsoyuznaya street and the crossroad of Podolskikh Kursantov street and the Moscow Ring Road are already delivered.
Road Structures

Related Content

  • Nepal plans road infrastructure expansion
    March 12, 2014
    Major road expansion is planned for Nepal, but will face huge challenges due to the country’s geography - Mike Woof reports, with local information from World Highways' Nepal correspondent, Ram Krishna Wagle The tiny, landlocked nation of Nepal lies sandwiched between two of the world’s largest countries, China and India and maintains good relations with both. Politically Nepal has strong links with China, while culturally its ties are close with India and these relationships work both ways. Despite bein
    Read More
  • Highway developments to boost east-west transport
    April 4, 2012
    Huge highway developments are being planned and carried out to further improve East-West transport, with Central Asia a key region as Patrick Smith reports History was made in late 2010, when one of the biggest road building projects ever envisaged in Eastern Europe was given the green-light. It was the occasion when Russian president Dmitry Medvedev signed a law that would allow his country to build its segment of a huge highway around the Black Sea. The idea is to complete the 7,140km highway, wi
    Read More
  • New US$200 million ring road to be built in Belarus capital Minsk
    May 23, 2014
    Minsk is to benefit from a new ring road that will cut city congestion - Eugene Gerden reports The government of Belarus is investing more than US$200 million in the building of a new ring road around the country’s capital Minsk, in accordance with a government decree. Implementation of the project is taking place as part of the existing large-scale state road building programme in the country until 2017, with the total cost estimated at US$5 billion. The new road will measure some 85km long and will feat
    Read More
  • Russia ploughs ahead with road expansion
    October 14, 2022
    Despite Western economic sanctions, Russia plans a record road building programme up to 2027, as Eugene Gerden reports
    Read More

Highlighted Content