UAH 20 bln to be allocated for construction of state highways in 2019 – Nowak

Head of the State Agency of Automobile Roads of Ukraine Slawomir Nowak has said that UAH 20 billion will be allocated for the construction, reconstruction and repairs of highways of state importance next year.

"About UAH 20 billion will be allocated for the construction, reconstruction and repairs of state highways next year. The general program of road development - UAH 8.6 billion. Plus our priority project Go Highway! - UAH 4 billion," said Nowak at a government meeting on Wednesday, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

He also reported on special programs: the Odesa-Reni highway – UAH 1.5 billion, the Zaporizhzhia-Mariupol – UAH 1 billion, the Mykolaiv-Kropyvnytskyi highway – UAH 1 billion, the Merefa-Pavlohrad highway – UAH 1 billion, the Dnipro-Reshetylivka – UAH 2 billion, the construction of a bypass route around the city of Rivne – UAH 200 million.

Also, an additional financing of UAH 500 million will be directed to the Lviv investment project, Nowak said.

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