The state Duma has advocated for increasing speed limits on motorways

12 April 2019

Deputies believe that about a limit of 90 km/h have already forgotten

In the state Duma held public hearings on "Strategy of road safety: compliance with speed limits and condition of the road network measures on toughening of responsibility of drivers", in which took part representatives of Executive authorities, the expert community and the legislature.

First Deputy Chairman of the Committee for state construction and legislation Vyacheslav Lysakov during the hearing advocated the increasing of speed limits in accordance with the categorization of roads. As an example, he compared the roads of Russia and Belarus: "as You know, I don't have to tell you, when you go on Novorizhskoe highway is 110 km/h, driving on the Minsk highway up to the Belarus – 90 km/h, come to Belarus and 120 km/h".
Lysakov also noted that, according to reliable statistics, in the case of increasing speed limits on appropriate roads of categorization of the correlation with the increase of road accident is not happening: "That is, to increase the speed is not to create a greater number of accidents. Let's give our organization the road in accordance with the European or at least international practice".

In turn, the Chairman of the state Duma Committee on transport and construction Yevgeny Moskvichev also said that in the first place it is necessary to bring to standard Federal and regional roads, as well as to increase the maximum permitted speed limit.
Calculated the increase in speed will increase the competitiveness of Russian transport, said the Deputy. He said: "We can't ride an average speed of 500-600 km per day, delivering cargo, if the European countries are held during the day 1100-1150 km."
He also said that the six-year period of construction and reconstruction of roads is planned to allocate ₽7 trillion. Due to this, by 2024, all roads in the country should be brought up to standard.