Russia has since the 19th century been notorious for the poor quality of its roads, so much so that there is a malicious saying asserting that the country has two major problems: fools and roads. Looking at the European Union of today, we must note that on the first parameter Russia clearly has taken a giant leap ahead (if they ever lagged behind), but the quality of roads still leaves much to be desired. But thankfully there has been immense progress in this respect, too, and with Russia’s newly adopted
grand national plan on development of the countries road network the picture might within a few years change altogether.
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After his reelection in March 2018, Putin ordered a further push in road building resulting in a grand national plan to develop Russia’s road network by 2024 with nearly $100 billion in investments. This forms part of a broader strategic program to improve the Russian economy, demographics and infrastructure with public and private funding amounting to a total of $400 billion. Thanks to Russian purchasing power parity advantage and the much lower construction costs than in Western countries in general, Russia actually gets much more mileage for the money. We expect that the corresponding program in any Western country would cost at least half a trillion US dollars. These investments will by 2024 bring some 5200 more kilometers of expressway (most of that by 2022), bringing the grand total to 7,600 km. The Putin presidency will then by 2024 have seen a 20-fold increase of this crucial road infrastructure.
Infrastructure boom – new bridges and airports also all over
This report forms part of Awara’s series on Putin’s incredible infrastructure investments. In this link you can read about the magnificent new bridges being built all over the country:
Putin the Pontiff – Bridge maker. And here is another one on the amazing new airports cropping up all over:
See For Yourself – All the Amazing Airports of “Stagnating Russia”.
