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- Independent agency Zoom Market: reputation and working methods
- Russian cities with bad roads
- The classic "trouble" of Russia through the eyes of an official
In July 2019, Zoom Market conducted an independent survey to determine the worst roads in the country. The results of the work of expert analysts have fully demonstrated in which cities this eternal Russian "trouble" requires especially close attention and prompt elimination.
Independent agency Zoom Market: reputation and working methods
The independent marketing agency Zoom Market has been operating in the Russian market since 2008. For more than a decade of work, the organization has completed over five hundred marketing research projects in various sectors of the national economy and market economy.
The agency's specialists base their work on a systematic search for information, accumulation of sociological survey data and subsequent analysis of the results.
In order to analyze the condition of Russian highways, the Zoom Market agency conducted a survey of residents of twenty-five Russian cities. The poll resulted in a sample of 3,000 interviews.
So, let's take a virtual tour of the cities included in the seven anti-rating, and see if it's worth going there by your own car.
Russian cities with bad roads
7. Ivanovo
The Ivanovo region participates in the national project “Safe and high-quality highways”. According to officials and Avtodor, the roads are being brought "to a standard state." In fact, the picture is, to put it mildly, disappointing.
Against the background of 29 high-quality currently repaired roads in the city, there are countless areas with patching. In general, this is a favorite method of regional road workers to “bury money in asphalt”: even the highest quality patchwork is not able to become a full-fledged alternative to normal road repair.
Meanwhile, this practice exists not only in Ivanovo. Everywhere, annual patching repairs seem to patch up the asphalt pavement sprawling literally before our eyes, but then everything happens in full accordance with the Russian proverb "where it is thin, it breaks there." New pits appear next to the asphalt patches, and it starts all over again.
The reason for such mismanagement is the lack of funds for full repairs. It is impossible to repair a large piece of the roadway - there is simply no money, but it is also impossible to drive through the pits. So our tracks are covered with new "patches" every year.
By the way, there are as many as 239 plots with “pit type” repairs in Ivanovo. Against the background of 29 normally repaired roads and 7 centers of urban car accidents, the seventh place in the rating of cities with the worst roads looks quite “honest”.
The site dorogi-onf.ru indicates that in this region there are 193 km of "killed" road routes that need to be restored.
6. Perm
It is scary to imagine where Perm would have been in our rating a few years ago, given that in 2015 this city was awarded “for active work to improve the condition of the road network” within the framework of the competition for the most comfortable Russian city.
However, even then the “city fathers” shyly commented on their award, saying that they perfectly understand that this award was given to them, to put it mildly, in advance.
For the repair of roads in Perm, an amount of about 1 billion rubles is annually allocated. Three years ago, the reconstruction of the roundabout on Vosstaniya Square was completed. As a result, the traffic of cars passing through this section has increased. But this did not save me from the sixth place in this rating.
Last year, the budget for the restoration of roads in the region was significantly increased; as a result, the volume of road works carried out increased by two and a half times.
In general, 854 km of highways were repaired last year. But with the existing level of destruction, even this is not enough!
Even the fact that there are comparatively fewer plots with patching in Perm than in Ivanovo does not help, and as many as 121 roads are currently repaired.
Despite all this, there are as many as 10 emergency sites in the city. The reason is that there are too many roads in this region that have long been in need of major repairs. On the site dorogi-onf.ru in Perm, 371 km of "killed" roads are declared.
5. Bryansk
Back in 2018, experts from the Finance Department of the Russian Federation recognized that the roads of Bryansk and the Bryansk region are one of the worst in Russia. Among other things, the state of the road surface is affected by the fact that the federal highways passing through the Bryansk region are notable for their small width, and therefore, the load on them is very high.
Moreover, it is often simply not possible to organize the repair of the highway by blocking the already narrow highway, without completely paralyzing the movement.
Similarly to Perm, in Bryansk, 10 emergency centers were noted on the roads. On the website of the All-Russian Popular Front, 21 roads are repaired, while 147 km of roads are in dire need of repair.
In 2019, the regional road fund was to receive 4.4 billion rubles from the regional budget and 1.6 billion from the federal budget.
4. Saratov
The planned repair of roads in Saratov, according to city leaders, is already in its third year. Patching is the scourge of this region, many areas, for example, Frunzensky, Volzhsky, Leninsky and Kirovsky, are simply full of patches that flow and merge with each other.
Few drivers will dare to drive at the permitted speed - the condition of the roadway is such that it is not far from trouble.
In September, the city authorities announced an auction for additional road works with a starting cost of 40 million rubles, which were planned to be completed by November 30. But as of October 3, only one road repair company had submitted an application for the auction, so the auction was declared invalid.
The length of roads in need of repair in the city is impressive - 385 km. At the same time, 105 roads are considered repaired, plus 30 roads have been restored by patching.
3. Omsk
A distinctive feature of Omsk roads is not only the problem with the road surface, but also the need to build a storm sewer.
The situation in the city is such that after a downpour in the city, not only pedestrians should not take to the streets without rubber boots, but also motorists should refrain from traveling.
On more than one occasion, city activists staged demonstrative "kayak races" along the city streets to draw attention to the plight of the roads.
One of the options for solving the "water" problem may be the strengthening of roadsides. Until recently, the vast majority of roadsides in the city were a place where mud and puddles accumulated. At the same time, in a number of sections, the underestimation of the shoulders is five times higher than the permissible norms.
This year, the old asphalt cut off in the course of repair work was finally guessed to be used to strengthen the roadsides. But this is not enough: a full-fledged downpour in the city should still be!
The interactive resource dorogi-onf.ru in Omsk announced 300 km of highways in need of repair. In total, 334 roads have been added to the resource map, of which 82 have been repaired.
2. Makhachkala
Last year, the authorities of Dagestan reported on their plans to restore at least 60% of city highways to normal condition. In the same year, one and a half billion rubles from the road fund of the republic and 765 million rubles were allocated for the implementation of this project.rubles - from the budget of the Federation.
Such financing has partly become innovative for the republic and the city - previously, road workers received funds for the regional road fund, while no more than ten percent could be spent on municipal roads from the said fund. This skew partly led to the deplorable state of urban highways, because the length of city roads is considerable - 950 km, including municipal, regional and federal roads.
The federal program "Safe and High-Quality Russian Roads" in Makhachkala began to be implemented only two years ago. It is calculated until 2025, so one can hope that the sad fact of being in second place in the anti-rating of Russian roads is a temporary phenomenon for the city, and in a year or two the situation will change.
Now on the network resource "Map of dead roads" in Makhachkala there are 140 km of roads requiring repair. Of the 324 roads of the city included in the resource map, only 85 have been repaired.
1. Chelyabinsk
At the top of the anti-rating of the roads of the Russian Federation is Chelyabinsk. Here the scandal over the state of municipal roads has been brewing for a long time - long before the results of the Zoom Market research were made public.
Back in May 2019, the interim governor of the Chelyabinsk region A. Teksler, having independently driven along the city and regional roads and admired their condition with his own eyes, decided to dismiss the head of the Department of the Road Administration of the Chelyabinsk administration.
According to Texler, "Now driving around the city is not even driving, but some kind of endless maneuvering between pits"... The head of the region also said that he hopes to organize the work in such a way as to put in order up to 2/3 of all municipal and regional roads within the next five years. At the same time, they were going to focus on reconstruction and repair work, and not on patching.
Unfortunately, at the moment the quality of already repaired roads leaves much to be desired: cracks, irregularities in the surface and patches on the "new" road are encountered with alarming frequency.
Time will tell whether the city and regional authorities will be able to put things in order, how much gunpowder the officials have, and whether the new roads will come off along with the snow.
According to the resource dorogi-onf.ru, 16 centers of car accidents were registered in Chelyabinsk - an indicator, to put it mildly, deplorable. Of the 587 roads on the resource map, 301 km of roadway need repair, 90 roads have already been repaired, 83 repairs have been carried out by the patching method.
The classic "trouble" of Russia through the eyes of an official
If the majority of Muscovites do not complain about the Moscow roads, then in other regions of the country a not so rosy picture appears. Pits, potholes, illiterately laid asphalt, which is washed out with the first rains and frosts - all this is by no means an exaggeration, but rather an understatement of the traditional Russian misfortune. It is no secret that billions are being spent on road repairs in Russia. But the results are still disappointing.
On July 15, 2019, the All-Russian Forum on the Development of Single-Industry Towns was held in Togliatti. Along with other government officials, this event was attended by the Minister of Economic Development of Russia Maxim Oreshkin.
In Togliatti, the minister arrived in his Lada XRAY car, drove the car on his own to assess the state of the highway. His route followed from Moscow to Togliatti through Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Cheboksary and Samara. The track is quite long, allowing you to make a completely objective impression of the condition of the road surface.
You can talk as much as you like about the "good condition" of Russian transport arteries, cite data on the reconstructed highways of regional and federal significance, but the fact remains that not everything in this industry is as it would be desirable for ordinary people who have to travel around every day. roads of dubious quality, and the officials themselves.
According to the minister, on the way from Moscow to Togliatti, he fully experienced all the "charms" of Russian roads, almost breaking a tire in one place.
The result of Oreshkin's trip was a discussion of the future fate of the M-7 highway - the future will show whether the Moscow-Kazan road will be reconstructed or whether it is worth starting the construction of a new toll highway. This time it was decided to focus on the reconstruction of the existing track.
If you build toll roads, abandoning old free ones, it is likely that the rating of the worst Russian roads will expand rapidly: everyone cannot and will not use toll roads, so the government will still have to be puzzled by the question of how to minimize the dubious rating of cities with the worst roads.
The rating of Russian cities with the worst roads given by Zoom Market is, in general, not news for Russians. On the other hand, the regular construction of such "anti-ratings" can push officials to more closely monitor the processes of road repair and reconstruction in a particular region of the country.
