In Irkutsk, 505 million rubles are planned to be additionally obtained from the federal budget in 2009 for the construction of a new bridge across the Angara. The minister of construction and roads, Ruslan Bolotov, said full two way traffic on the bridge will open in 2009, and all work on interchanges will be completed by 2011. Currently traffic on the first launch complex is open only in one direction, although the bridge capacity is 1.2 thousand cars per hour.
In Irkutsk, an additional 505 million rubles is planned to be received from the federal budget in 2009 for the construction of a new bridge across the Angara. This was announced today by the Minister of Construction and Road Management of the Irkutsk Region, Ruslan Bolotov, at a meeting of the Council of the Association of Municipalities of the Irkutsk Region.Bolotov said that full traffic across the new Angara bridge from the left bank to the right bank and back will be opened in 2009, and all construction work in this area, including the creation of the necessary transport interchanges, will be completed in 2011.
According to him, since the beginning of the year, 596 million has already been received from the state treasury for the construction of the facility. The minister also promised that traffic across the new bridge from the left bank to the right bank and back will be opened in just a few months. And the transport interchanges will be prepared by 2011.
Recall that the first launch complex of the new bridge across the Angara was completed at the end of 2007. The total cost of the first stage amounted to more than 4 billion rubles. This is money from the regional and federal budgets. For now, traffic is open only in one direction: from 3rd of July Street to the left bank of the Angara. The capacity of the first bridge complex is 1.2 thousand cars per hour. The total length of the bridge is 1,615 meters.