When will they open the bridge across the Kuban in Varenikovskaya after repairs?

Local residents, as well as tourists traveling to rest in Temryuk district or Anapa, are no longer threatened by many-hour detours: the bridge over the Kuban River in Varenikovskaya is open. In August of last year, the bridge overhaul was completed, which allowed to open a straight path through the rivers Kazachy Erik and Kuban. As the journalists reported, the main works on the site have been completed. The finishing touches left to do, do not prevent the cars from crossing the overhauled bridge across the Kuban in Varenikovskaya.

Workers have yet to work hard on the arrangement of pedestrian paths. But still the main thing is done: repair of the bridge across the river. Kuban, as promised, is completed by August 1 and the journey is open to the joy of motorists, both local residents and tourists, spinning a wheel in the direction of the beaches of Anapa.

When will they open the bridge across the Kuban in Varenikovskaya?

This issue has troubled many people for half a year. For a long time it was impossible to get here. The bridge in Varenikovskaya across the Kuban River is located on the section of the Anapa highway - Varenikovskaya village - Andreeva mountain. Experts "Stroiproject" in February 2016, the object was recognized as an emergency. The movement of vehicles on it was prohibited. The bridge near the village Varenikovskaya with confidence can be called strategic. It is a kind of link between the three regions. After the closure of the crossing, the inhabitants of one bank of the Kuban had to get to the other, making a huge hook almost as large as a hundred kilometers. Drivers of reanimobiles from Anapa and Novorossiysk used a bridge across the Kuban in Varenikovskaya to avoid traffic jams on the highway. "When will they open?" - this issue was also of concern to the drivers of Anapa-Krasnodar buses, tourists and local residents hurrying to work.

How long the repair would last was unknown to anyone. At the time of closing the bridge, we developed detour routes. To avoid the blocked area near the Varenikovskaya village, several directions were suggested: from Temryuk past Krasnodar and Kropotkin to the border of the Stavropol Territory, from Temryuk to Fontalovskaya, from the village of Peresyp to the village of Soleny, from Krymsk to the village of Dzhiginki, from Novorossiysk to Kerch Strait, from Krasnodar - to the Upper Balkans.

The sick question

"The bridge next to the village of Varenikovskaya (Kuban) will not withstand the influx of tourists!" - the local Cossacks really sounded the alarm. They were worried for themselves, for the 5-millionth region, and for the tourists who, like the local tourists, had to make a huge detour. The bridge across the Kuban near the village was closed for repairs, but according to observations for some time the work on it was not conducted.

As the activists told local mass media, the first workers were seen here in autumn, in 2015. Tender for repairs was received by one of the Moscow companies. Workers overwintered in the Kuban and left, tearing down concrete on the road and throwing repairs unfinished.

"Unfair contractors"

The contractor organization was extremely slow to work. It became clear that they could not manage not only by the end of the term, but by the end of 2016. In this regard, the ministry terminated the contract and repeated the procedure for determining the contractor.

According to media activists, they learned that the contract with unscrupulous contractors was terminated. For two years, this company is prohibited from doing repairs in the Krasnodar Territory.

Concerns

Most of all the inhabitants of Varenikovskaya village were afraid of summer. The settlement is located 30 km from the Azov and Black Seas. Usually in the holiday season the route is overloaded. Many cars will be forced to head through the village, which as a result will be paralyzed: the settlement is not ready for such a traffic flow.

But the most worrying thing was that the life of a man often depends on the serviceability of the bridge near Varenikovskaya. The ambulance cars from Anapa, Raevskoye and Novorossiysk mostly have to move the river in these places. Residents worried that because of the protracted repair of the bridge, "fast" will be delayed in the resulting congestion.

Other repairs

Simultaneously with this repair, bridges were repaired across the Kuban in the village of Strelka (60 km from Varenikovskaya) and in Temryuk. For some time there was a possible reversal movement. Residents feared that when the bridges are completely blocked, the road through the village will be a big test for everyone.

Do you really have to remember the ferry?

This opportunity was not happy. Varenikovskaya is the first village in the province on the left bank of the Kuban. Once there was an exchange point between the mountaineers and the Cossacks. Then there was a ferry crossing. "Do the inhabitants again have to remember about the ferry and boats?" - the Cossacks were perplexed. In the courtyard of the 21st century, and everything went to the same, the journalists were sharing with the journalists, because the district was cut off and something had to be decided.

Repair completed

The question of when they will open the bridge across the Kuban in Varenikovskaya, for half a year interested also the employees of local media. They watched the vicissitudes of the repair and reported them in the news. Now residents of the district and other motorists can inform the pleasant news: they have already opened a bridge across the Kuban in Varenikovskaya.

The construction of the bridge over the Kuban was completed earlier than planned. Daily travel of the village residents and tourists is thereby reduced ahead of schedule by several hours. Now journalists are happy to state that only road workers who finish installation of the fence are reminded of prolonged repairs.

How did the object surrender?

According to Yury Surzhenko, Deputy Minister of Roads and Transport of the Krasnodar Territory, who visited the bridge to check the site, the contractor made a lot of efforts. As far back as last September, a contract was signed for the bridge overhaul. But the first contractor, who started the work, turned out to be dishonest. The contract was canceled, repeated auction was held.

There are no complaints about the work of the new contractor. Completion of all work was planned for the end of November. Despite this, the traffic was launched in August. Previously, motorists (tourists and local) spent at least one hour to go around, now they go to the resort and work on the shortest path. Navigation systems of tourists lead to the resort of Anapa, bypassing the bridge across the Kuban in Varenikovskaya. "When will the object be opened?" - this was a very burning issue for both residents and organizers and executors of repairs. Experts are sure: despite the intensity of traffic, the renovated bridge will now serve for a long time.

Thanks to motorists

The first judges of the scale of the work done were local residents, who were particularly interested in the issue when they opened the bridge across the Kuban in Varenikovskaya. Drivers, passing through the renovated bridge, thankfully signal to people in a bright road form. After all, their work saved the village residents from the need to overcome the extra 100 km in detour on the way to relatives or to work.

Features of repair

Excessive traffic density of heavy trucks led to the fact that the asphalt coating on the bridge became wavy and began to crumble. On such a road it was dangerous to travel.

It is known that the capital repairs of this bridge have not been taken since 1978, that is, from the moment of construction. In the beginning, one project was conceived, not providing for the replacement of beams. But when the old road surface was removed, the contractors came to the conclusion that the old flooring required urgent replacement. Therefore, new beams were installed, a comfortable carriageway 9.5 m wide was equipped.

The quality of the work is confidently guaranteed. In parallel with this repair area, another bridge was opened through the Cossack Erik bypass and Temryuk. This facility, as the contractors have been told to journalists, also has not been repaired for more than forty years. Now local residents and holidaymakers who are actively interested when they open the bridge across the Kuban in Varenikovskaya can significantly shorten the time of travel from Krasnodar to the resorts on the Crimean peninsula and the Azov coast.

Problem

Road accessibility of seaports and resorts, as Governor V. Kondratyev stressed at the January meeting , is extremely inadequate. The total length of the coast is 400 km, but only two roads lead to it: A-146 (Krasnodar-Novorossiysk) and M-4 Don (Krasnodar-Dzhubga).

Systematically, the mains are being repaired, this creates additional difficulties for campers during the holiday season. The step-by-step repair does not increase the throughput of entrances to the coast. In order to remove the voltage from the mains, it is necessary to translate them into the status of roads of the 1st category, that is, to turn them into three-lanes, the governor stressed. The official instructed specialists to develop a strategy for the development of the regional road network. The Minister of Resorts of the Krai E. Kudelia was also involved in one traffic jam on motorways and road repair problems. The deep cause of congestion, according to the minister, lies in the shortcomings of the system of formation and distribution of budgetary funds.

Subtlety of the question

The issue of the vicissitudes of repairing the bridge near the village of Varenikovskaya has not lost its relevance after the resumption of traffic on the repaired highway. Vigilant users of networks noticed some subtleties, past which the journalists passed. The group of authors of one of the articles suggest the Internet community to pay attention to the following. In their opinion, if the repair work on the bridge started by the first contractor, which is defined in the media as "negligent", is stopped due to the emergency condition of the facility, the contractor is not at fault at all. A state contract with a contractor who received a tender for repairs must be terminated if there are defects in the construction of the structure that were not found at the pre-design inspection stage of the facility. Such defects can not be eliminated during repair work, major repairs or reconstruction of the bridge is required.

Journalists allowed themselves indiscriminately to blame the contracting organization for disrupting the repair work without understanding all the intricacies of the issue. Meanwhile meticulous researchers have found information that this object has been "traded" for the fourth time in the last year and a half. This gives grounds for suspecting that the previous encounters comprehended the same fate. All this history testifies to incompetence not of the contractor, but just the customer, i.e. the Ministry of Construction, responsible also for architecture and road facilities, which did not provide quality control during the bridge design, as well as at the conclusion of previous transactions. As a result, the bridge has become a well-known emergency state.

A lot of questions in this matter remain for designers, who have performed their work in bad faith, and to the customer who accepted this work with errors in assessing the state of the object. But if his "incompetence" had been established on time, the bridge could be carried out under another financing item and save money, as well as the time and nerves of taxpayers.