Road two thirds of the country will pay for trucks unopposed

17.07.2019

For private builders and landlords of roads and bridges of the far North are allowed to charge in the absence of alternatives

The website "Kommersant" reports that a bill allowing to impose tolls on highways of the far North, to what is 70% of the Russian territory even in the absence of alternative free detour has already been finalized for the second reading.
If lawmakers initially thought that the innovation will affect only new roads, but now it will be possible to charge on existing roads and bridges, "renovated by private money". The authors of the bill "graciously allowed" to not pay (for how long? – ed.) the owners of cars and motorcyclists, so that the main financial burden will fall on owners of trucks and buses.
The state Duma Committee on transport and construction recommended the adoption in the second reading new edition of the amendments to the law "About highways and road activities". A document developed by the Ministry of transport and adopted in the first reading in the beginning of the year, resolves to levy tolls on highways (and bridges) of the far North and in the absence of alternative free journey.

The main type of roads in the regions of the COP remains the usual winter seasonal ice road and well, if he's such exemplary quality as in this photo 

Existing law contains a ban on charging fees in the absence of free detour. So, for paid high-speed highway M11 "Moscow–St.-Petersburg" free alternative acts M10 motorway in the same direction, respectively, for sections of the highway M4 "don" highway "Staraya Kashirka" and so on. The Ministry of transport wants to remove the restriction on additional fees for areas of the far North which include 70% of the territory of the Russian Federation, where there is an acute need for the development of the road network. Here at road construction lacking any budget money, and private investors do not wish to deal with the repair of roads and bridges due to the inability of the law of return of their funds, which the inhabitants of the COP we have to use winter roads and temporary crossings. Rich in oil, gas and mining companies, in principle, build a road for their own businesses, however, open them to the public and to charge for travel yet they can't.

And that's not the hardest the picture of things happening on the roads of the regions of the KS transport nightmare

  PS So what is this bill doing? Except not cancelled the transport tax and the "Plato" for heavy trucks introduced more taxes on uncontested passage built or just "repaired" the private owners of roads and bridges. Question – and cosmetic coloring uncontested bridge also refers to "repair" and allows the owner it thereby effectively privatize? It turns out that two-thirds of the country has already been paying considerable transport tax will have to pay it again. Reportedly it will not pay the drivers of cars and Yes, motorcycles (like in the Extreme North we have the right mitocarta). Do not pay directly you pay a buyers of goods transported in the UK almost uncontested that heavy trucks)! 
No, well, you can, of course, the opposite thesis to apply: the creation of public roads to the most remote and inaccessible settlements in the far North is not possible even in the long term because of the high cost of their construction and operation, so it is the active involvement of private capital and help to improve quality of the road network outside densely populated areas of the country. Especially in relation to Energy sector companies the way it already is. That's just almost the entire quarter-century experience in the development of post-Soviet capitalism in Russia does not allow to believe in these "benevolent aspirations," and that's what our business loves to make money on mediation and sliding schemes, while the finger is not really hitting, and seriously and for the long term investing except that in the offshore – just the most common and usual thing. So that the pockets of the same small (drivers own their trucks) and medium-sized business will once again facilitate and increase this network and quality of roads and, most importantly, the quality of life in the North – guess yourself. Moreover, the main thing is to start, as the first and last Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, and then we will deepen. If the charging of fees for uncontested highway pass in the far North, there is no doubt that in a short time and the rest of the country in the same way try to "abillity". Truly all in the spirit of the formula: "our population – oil 2.0".

So maybe that's this idyllic picture is not so distant future will become an alternative to current directions in the far North? 

P. P. S. July 23 will be held multimedia press conference of the Chairman of the Committee on transport and construction of the state Duma E. Moskvicheva on results of work during the spring session, which will discuss this bill in the context of the discussion of the priority tasks of the national project "Safe and high quality roads". Listen what about this bill say we are not the last person in the GD. Follow the news on the portal www.rim3.ru.