Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to control travel costs on the M-12 Moscow-Kazan toll road. In this respect reports TASS with reference to the head of state.
“Perhaps the cost of each site may not be the same. Because I know the number should be 4-4.5 thousand. [рублей]. I will check it. It seems to me that this kind of direct arithmetic might not work very well here. I will check, Sergei Viktorovich, I promise. “I will definitely watch it,” Putin said.
The reason for Vladimir Putin’s comment was a question from a Moscow resident, who said that according to his calculations, the cost of traveling on the M-12 toll highway from Moscow to Kazan could be about 6 thousand rubles.
It happened before that knownHe said that the Russian government decided to expand the M-12 high-speed toll highway to Tyumen and call it “Vostok”.
The extension work will mainly consist of the reconstruction of the highway, and the work is planned to be completed in 2024. In addition, after the renaming of M-12, the name “Vostok” will disappear on the highway from Khabarovsk to Nakhodka.
Currently, the length of the M-12 highway is 811 km, of which 415 km is the toll section.
Previously reportedHe said that 1.05 million fines were imposed for free travel on toll roads in Russia.