Crimean autobahn: how is the construction of the highway "Tavrida"

During our trip to the winter Crimea (although, to be honest, the word "winter" is inappropriate here. Rather, it is spring or autumn), we drove along the newly built highway "Tavrida". My friends are building it: Nastya Gurina and Grigory Nazarov (of course, not together). They organized our travel and excursion. It was awesome!

It's amazing not because the road is good (although it is not just good, but excellent). And because during the trip it turned out: the journey from Kerch to Sevastopol will take only two hours (if you allow yourself to be a bit upset). Consider: two hours from one end of the Crimea to the other! Many Muscovites living outside the Moscow Ring Road spend so much on going to work. One way. In the wild hustle and traffic jams.

But the most important thing is that this track is built with love. Yes, we have long forgotten this word, and here, in the Crimea, motorists love and wait!

Crimea will be comfortable for them in a couple of years. Of course, federal highways, roads of settlements after decades of devastation will have to be put in order for a long time, but this work is underway - and in some places at full speed.

250 km of the first-class autobahn from the bridge to Sevastopol (inclusive) will be completed in 2020. The total length of the Crimean autobahn with a site in the Krasnodar Territory and the bridge will be almost 330 km.

It seems to me that after the end of construction, it is worth raising the issue of creating the trans-Black Sea main line and connecting Sochi and Sevastopol with high-speed road and rail links. Now the road (about 790 km) takes 13-15 hours, and in the case of the project, it will be possible to get from end to end in less than seven hours. This will not just revive the region, but will make it the most attractive from the transport point of view in Russia as a whole.

I also noticed that even paid parking, which also appeared here, is organized logically (and only in places where a lot of cars are going). I parked in the very center of Simferopol for 50 rubles per hour, but it was a closed guarded area. A hundred meters from the parking - the local Arbat.

We will tell you about Simferopol itself next time. The city has been very transformed in recent years, and I will honestly say that I simply did not recognize it in places ...

To be continued.