OREANDA-NEWS. March 29, 2013. Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov stresses on need to continue development of Kyiv’s infrastructure. The heavy snowfalls distinctly uncovered key problems of the capital: absence of a ring road, lack of road junctures, parking lots and bridges and also inadeuqate material base of communal services. He announced during the session of the Cabinet of Ministers. 

“This proved once again that efforts in building transport infrastructure having been taken by the Government in synergy with Kyiv authorities in recent years (just keep in mind – only recent years for all twenty years of independence!) are absolutely correct and justified. We have been building transport interchanges, subway lines, making roads broader. In 2012 the capital with assistance of the Government received 500 new trolley-buses and buses, new underground cars, 76 ambulance cars. Just the mentioned activity must be strengthened further,” the head of Government emphasized.

He added that from the situation we faced in connection with heavy blizzards on March 22-24 we must draw serious conclusions for the future: “Concerning cadre, organization and technical issues”.

According to Mykola Azarov, the first place ought to take construction of a contemporary ring road that will afford to relieve Kyiv from loading. “But we must realize at once, that the ring road means another two new bridges. The one who cannot understand the scale of this task may remember that over thirty years there was erected only one bridge in Kyiv. It is hard but this problem must be solved,” he noted and added that new logistical schemes of arrival to Kyiv of heavy transport bringing essential commodities and foodstuffs to secure life support of multimillion city must be elaborated.

Besides, according to the Premier, it is vital to develop underground public transport, build tunnel interchanges and to reequip communal services.

The Premier urged, it is necessary to purchase loaders and required “line” of trucks, and the most significant – road microequipment which is of great demand for cleaning yards, passage ways, pavements. “Let’s just reflect upon the fact that only 150 snow cleaning machinery are applied to ensure activity on one thousand kilometer of Kyiv’s territory with 50 million tons of snow! It means 333 thousand tons of snow per one truck. This is the scale of necessary reequipment of communal services,” Mykola Azarov urged.