Following a technological hiatus, works have been resumed in Kamenets District to upgrade a part of the motorway connecting Brest and the border checkpoint Peschatka-Polowce, Director General of Brestavtodor Company Mikhail Nepochelovich told BelTA.
The reconstruction of the motorway P16 Tyukhinichi – Vysokoye – the Polish border is financed from two sources. This major infrastructure project is implemented under the Poland-Belarus-Ukraine 2014-2020 cross-border cooperation program funded by the European Union. International technical assistance totals €4.6 million. The national road fund is financing 10% of the project cost.
The length of the road section under reconstruction is 13.3km. Some 9.5km of which will be a new road. A cement and concrete bypass road will be constructed around the city of Vysokoye. The new road will free the city from transit transport and increase traffic speed and capacity of the R16. “A bypass road is safety and a low environmental footprint in the first place. Almost all the cities in Brest Oblast have bypasses. Vysokoye is a transit city, and it needs such a road. I believe that the project will benefit not only the residents of the border region but also international cargo carriers and tourists,” said Mikhail Nepochelovich.
The road modernization started in May 2019. An estimated 40% of the works had been completed as part of the project by February 2020. The four-kilometer-long renovated section near the village of Plyanta now boasts new asphalt and concrete covering, an eight-meter-wide road surface, new road marking and two passenger shelters. A new section of the motorway is also ready, with pipe culverts installed near the Pulva River. The construction of the overpass through the railway has begun as well.
It is planned that the renewed R16 motorway will open to traffic in October 2020. The motorway will be assigned category III after the reconstruction is over.
