MOSCOW, August 27 (RIA Novosti) - Construction has begun on Moscow’s longest ring road yet, Kommersant newspaper reported Wednesday.
“The Central Automobile Ring Road will reconsider the development of the whole capital region, home to dozens of millions of people. This megaproject is one of the priorities in the country’s development,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said at the construction’s opening, which was also attended by the Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyov and Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov.
The 525-kilometer-long (326 mile) Central Automobile Ring Road will be located 20 to 86 kilometers away from the Moscow Automobile Ring Road (MKAD), a ten-lane road encircling parts of Moscow since 1961. The toll for using the Central Ring Road is expected to be set at 2.3 rubles per kilometer ($0.06) and the average driving speed is expected to reach 150 kilometers per hour.
The ambitious project, to help relieve the heavy traffic on city’s roads before the 2018 FIFA World Cup that is scheduled to take place in Russia, will cost 300 billion rubles ($8.3 billion) and is due for completion in just four years.
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