The total amount of funds that have already been allocated for carrying out road works in Ukraine in 2017 exceeded UAH 20 billion, while the length of repaired roads exceeds 750 kilometers, Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman has said.
In addition, he said patch work had been done on 40,000 km of roads.
According to the information and communications department of the secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers, the prime minister noted this year all the work had begun on time, in April, whereas last year the first road tenders were held only in August.
“Every week we inspect the work in the regions, check the progress of repair works, their quality, open the restored sections of roads. And we pay special attention to the construction of new highways,” Groysman said.
According to him, one of these projects is the Lviv-Odessa road through Khmelnytsky, Vinnytsia, Mykolaiv and Kherson, which will connect the western border of Ukraine with the ports on the Black Sea and become a powerful component of Ukraine’s transit opportunities. According to the head of government, work on the facility has already been started, in three or four years Ukraine will receive a new road of European quality. (Interfax-Ukraine/Business World Magazine)