
Volodymyr Kistion: Government focuses on both directions – road repairing activities and maintaining their quality
With the support
of the European
Union, the State Service of
Ukraine for Transport Safety purchased 26 new mobile dimensioning and weighing scales
complying with European standards. Today Vice Prime
Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Kistion presented those systems on
behalf of the Government of Ukraine.
Within the framework
of the assistance
provided to the Ukrainian Government
sponsored by the European Commission,
there will be purchased another
52 modern mobile weighting scales by the end
of 2017.
"Construction of new high-quality
roads is the priority of
the Government's work in the
current and subsequent years. We all have
the opportunity to observe how
the Ukrainian roads have changed
over the past six months.
Roads in Ukraine have not
been subjected to major repairs
for over 20 years," said Volodymyr Kistion in his address.
According to him,
by the end
of year over
2 thousand kilometers of Ukrainian roads
will be repaired,
being a record in the history
of Ukrainian independence. "It's not even about
the scale of repairs. Speedways
are obtaining high quality, as
the philosophy of the repair
activity has been changed – the activity includes
not just patching pits and
holes, but in fact the
road is constructed
from scratch thereby laying the foundation for high-quality roads for the
years to come," the Vice Prime Minister
underlined.
The annual losses
incurred to the road infrastructure
as a result of the destruction
of roads caused by the
traffic of heavy vehicles, amount to over
UAH 2 billion. Therefore, the Government is focusing not
just on major
overhaul of roads, but on
maintaining road infrastructure in the future.
"In order
to prevent deformation of the coating in
two to three
years of use of new
roads there should be clear
control over the traffic of
excessively loaded cars. This is
the globally accepted norm when
all carriers honestly adhere to the established
allowable standards for the loading
of vehicles", urged Volodymyr Kistion.
He added that
the provision of the State
Service of Ukraine for Transport
Safety with modern mobile weighing
scales will improve the control
of safety on Ukrainian roads.
"Control itself is not an
end in itself.
Road repair activities are made at the
expense of taxpayers. Therefore, to avoid the
situation when we build with
one hand, and destroy with
another, there must be implemented
an effective control over the
traffic of excessively loaded vehicles", summed up the Vice
Prime Minister.