Ukraine must refuse road patching repairs, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated. “Patching repairs should be a thing of the past,” he said during a press conference on road repairs in Kyiv. According to the president, the construction and overhauls of roads should account for about 80% of all road works.
Zelensky also emphasized the importance of providing guarantees for all road construction works so that “asphalt does not disappear with snow.”
“We must build in order to destroy. To break the stereotype that Ukraine and good roads are not compatible concepts,” Zelensky said.
At the same time, the president noted that at present only 15 regions of the country had approved the list of road construction and repairs.
“We expect that local authorities will intensify their work and approve the list of construction and repair of roads. Today only 15 regions have done so … And three regions have not passed the list at all (Lviv, Zakarpattia and Sumy regions),” he said.
Zelensky also recalled that the plans for 2020 are to upgrade 4,000 km of state roads.
The government also plans in 2020 to build 2,500 km of local roads, for which UAH 22.2 billion will be allocated, or 70% more than was used last year. In general, this will allow creating about 12,000 new jobs.
