Irkutsk will receive 1.5 billion rubles for road repairs from the regional budget

Irkutsk will receive 1.5 billion rubles for road repairs. from the regional budget under the national project “Safe Quality Roads”. This is 400 million rubles. more than planned. Taking into account the local budget, the amount will be 2.3 billion rubles. The press service of the regional government reported this on April 25, 2024.

– This year, under the national project, Irkutsk will receive 49% of the total funds allocated for the current repair of highways in large cities of the Irkutsk region. We are ready to increase funding, but at the same time we demand quality! We must strive to ensure that repair work on all main streets of Irkutsk is carried out in a single complex. The road surface is being repaired – all infrastructure work must be completed immediately: sidewalks, stop pavilions, relaying communications. So that it doesn’t happen, as in the sad saying: “If the road is asphalted today, then tomorrow pipes will be laid under it,” – said the regional governor Igor Kobzev.

Now the Irkutsk administration is identifying additional facilities. Previously, according to the national project, it was planned to repair 18 sections with a total length of 19 km. Among them is a section of Leningradskaya street 1.5 km long, Gorky and Jacobi – 1.3 km each, Tchaikovsky and 25th October – a kilometer each. Contracts for work on them have already been concluded.

The governor noted that it is necessary to reconstruct the Lermontov interchange, the entrances to the city from Khomutovo and Shelekhov, and change the entrance and parking layout near the airport. Design documentation is being developed for these facilities. The head of the region also recommended starting to develop a project for arranging a through passage along Piskunova Street.

In addition, Irkutsk received 81 new buses this year with the support of the regional government. – One of the most painful topics for Irkutsk residents is putting things in order in the field of public transport. Together we began to resolve the issue of updating the rolling stock. Now it is necessary to work on electric transport, enter into government programs, update equipment, and resolve the issue of the shortage of driver and technical personnel of transport enterprises. I propose that the Ministry of Transport, together with city administrations, convene a meeting and analyze the problems of urban transport – noted Igor Kobzev.