The country will go on the toll roads

More recently, the toll roads seemed almost exotic, but soon it will become normal practice, officials promise. Doubt it is not necessary. The other day, President Dmitry Medvedev signed a law under which federal, state and local governments can declare themselves pay the whole public road, and the innovation will spread to some areas. The fact that Russian roads should learn from Western experience, said a long time. Even last year, Sergei Ivanov said that in future the majority of federal roads will be paid, then Deputy Prime Minister complained that "even in communist China, there are thousands of kilometers of toll roads." Then this idea was supported by Ministry of Economic Development and Transport Ministry and the government headed by Vladimir Putin. Begin construction of toll roads planned in the second half of this year. This is, in particular, said Transport Minister Igor Levitin. But it is not clear how the new law will work. It's one thing if the money would be levied only on those areas where it is assumed the existence of alternatives in the form of free roads, and another if the drivers have no choice. Under the bill, a decision must relate to only those roads, design documents are approved after November 14, 2007 So, in a program of "Russian Roads" is planned construction and rehabilitation of nearly 1400 km of federal roads, which will have to remove half of the total traffic load. Roads will be paid, but money will be taken only where can travel free of charge. In another situation with the federal highway M-4 "Don", many portions of which will be paid, without having an alternate detour. It is known that in the first place, it will affect sites in the circuits of major cities. "Dear" for toll road sections of the road Avtodor ("Russian Roads") is planning to charge cars a rub for 1 km, followed by indexing inflation and GDP. On similar figures and said Transport Minister Igor Levitin. Earlier in his presentation, he stressed that the fare will range from 1 to 5 rubles. up to 1 km depending on the complexity of road section and type of vehicle. By the way, it is worth noting that according to the recently adopted law "On the roads, federal, regional and local authorities will be able to independently determine the method of calculation, and also set a maximum amount of payment for the passage of vehicles. The result of this determination is evident. Despite the fact that today in Russia there is only one federal toll road in the Lipetsk region, and several regional, their prices range from 1 to 17 rubles per km. Thus, a paid trail Island - Vyshgorodok "recognized not only the most expensive portion of Russia, but also across Europe. For 1 km of road will be charged 0.47 euro for trailers and 0.13 for the cars are. According to Expert magazine, similar to rates found only in the UK at the site Cannock, Sutton Coalfield (0,13 euro per 1 km for cars are), in Norway on the road Lunner-Nannestad (0,12 euro per 1 km), Serbia - Belgrade on the site-Nis (0,09 per 1 km) and in Ireland - Kilcock-Kinnegad (0,08 euro per 1 km). On average, prices for European toll roads are as follows: in Spain kilometer toll road is worth 9.3 cents, in France - 6.8 cents, Portugal - 6.1 and -5.2 in Italy. In the same number of countries such as Finland, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, all roads and at all are free. "The practice of introducing fees for use of roads are actively used in countries with low state budget - the director of" AsstrA Eng "Alexander Mikheyev. - In Russia, the quality of the roads? unsatisfactory, and the state is unlikely to cope with the problem yourself. Also, you should take into account the experience of previous years when the budget target was not on purpose. " In his opinion, there are now doubts that such an innovation is somehow improve the quality of roads in Russia. All anything, agree to motorists, if domestic roads were at least in some sort of comparison with European ones. And, moreover, that has to pay, so still do not understand why. In the same region of Pskov toll road is almost no different from free: the old roadbed, and the roads themselves are narrow and uneven. True, the officials promised new roads will be constructed in compliance with all European standards: the infrastructure side of the road (gas station, cafe and camping), a good grip and a large number of traffic lanes.