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The 6-year-old long-term construction the highway across the Dnieper River in Zaporizhia is the most famous monument of corruption in Independent Ukraine. Its construction began in 2004 and total costs by 2019 reach 400 million making Zaporizhzhya Bridge almost the most expensive infrastructure project in the country.In recent years despite numerous promises from the authorities to finally complete the project no real steps have been taken. In conclusion due to inaction as of early 2019 the cost of building the bridge has almost doubled.I will briefly explain why this project is so important. Currently the Dnieper can be crossed in Zaporizhia only in two ways through the Transfiguration Bridges and the Dnieper Dam. The latter has long been in need of reconstruction and the Transfiguration Bridges were not initially designed for heavy traffic.Without a new highway across the Dnieper part of the city will eventually be cut off from the center. After all the nearest alternative bridge is almost 100 km away in the city of Dnipro says Ukravtodor chairman Oleksandr Kubrakov.On December 24 2020 the passage on the upper side of the beam bridge was opened. It will be the main route for transport from the island of Khortytsia to the Baburka district thus unloading the Transfiguration Bridge from heavy traffic. From now on traffic to Khortytsia will pass through a new beam bridge and traffic from Khortytsia will pass through the Preobrazhensky Bridge.The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi attended the opening of the movement. This is the flagship of our bridge project which is part of the Big Construction program. In total this year we renovated 100 bridges in Ukraine. The most important bridge is Zaporizhia it is the largest the head of state said.Also during the opening of the bridge a megaproject dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the countrys Independence was presented. Next year a new route M-30 Stryy - Izvaryne will appear on the map which will connect Lviv and Luhansk regions through 11 regions. It will be the longest route in the country despite the fact that some part is now in the temporarily occupied territory. Almost 1400 km. Now our longest route is 900 km said Kyrylo Tymoshenko Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine during the presentation of the M-30 route plan to the head of state. They did in 8 months what they could not do in the last 10 yearsIn 2019 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky launched the resumption of the project. In February 2020 a contractor was identified - it was the Turkish company ONUR TAAHHUT. The cost of the contract is UAH 11.9 billion. Construction began in April on a 247 basis. Almost 600 specialists 50 units of equipment thousands of tons of metal structures and the largest floating crane in Europe were involved.For 8 months on the beam bridgethe crane overpass was rearrangedanti-corrosion protection of beams of girder structures was performed holes were drilled for embedded parts of the barrier fence beams of girder structure were mounted on the lower side of the postwaterproofing is arrangeddeformation seams are mountedarranged asphalt.It is planned to complete the Zaporizhzhya Bridge in 2 years not in 4. This is not a whim - but an urgent need. The contractor works day and night the construction of two bridges continues in parallel. Already in November 2021 it is planned to open the passage with a cable-stayed bridge.
