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Ukraine



The Ukraine. One of the largest countries in Europe, and a former Soviet republic, now a country with one of the larger populations in Europe; 47.000.000
The area is around 604.000 square kilometer, making it the 44th largest country in the world. Ukrainian GDP is $ 8.000 and the Human Development Index is growing. The Ukrainian capital is Kiev, and the country has a few other cities with over a million of population, Odessa, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk.

The Southwest is mountainous with the Karpaty mountains. The central has flatlands with some major artificial lakes in the Dnipro river, where Kiev is also located on. The east has one of the largest industrial areas of Europe, the Donbass region. A lot of larger cities are centered here. On the southern side of the Ukraine are beach destinations, on the Krim peninsula and around Odessa. Only the narrow Kerch strait divides Russia and Ukraine on the Black Sea, and the Sea of Azov.

Roads
The Ukraine already posesses a large amount of major highways, some of them are up to or are being build to motorway standards. The Ukrainian government has deployed ambitious plans to upgrade many roads and build a lot of motorways, including a 200km Kiev 8-lane ringroad, and a motorway from Slovakia to Luhansk, spanning over 1500km.

The major roads in the Ukraine have M-numbers, Regional roads have P-numbers (Cyrillic, Latin R). The E-numbers are also present in the Ukraine, but it's uncertain if they are signed.

Numbering:
M1 Kiev - Chernihiv - Dobrjanka (BY) (Homel)
M2 Kipti (M1) - Hluchiv (RUS) (Orel)
M3 Kiev - Poltava - Kharkiv - Slovjansk - Krasnyj Luc (RUS) (Rostov)
M4 Kiev - Dnipropetrovsk - Donetsk - Luhansk (RUS) (Rostov)
M5 Kiev - Bila Cerkva - Odesa
M6 Kiev - Zhytomir - Rivne - L'viv - Uzhorod (H) (Nyiregyhaza)
M7 Kiev - Korosten - Kovel (PL) (Lublin)
M8 Rivne - Luck - Volodymyr-Volynskyj (PL) (Zamosc)
M9 Lviv - Rava Ruska (PL) (Zamosc)
M10 Lviv - Krakovec (PL) (Rzeszów)
M11 Lviv - Mostyska (PL) (Przemysl)
M12 Lviv - Ternopil - Chmelnickyj - Vinnycja - Kirovohrad (M4)
M13 Kirovohrad - Kotovsk (MD) (Chisinau)
M14 Odessa - Mykolajiv - Cherson - Melitopol - Berdjansk - Mariupol (RUS) (Rostov)
M15 Odessa - Izmajil (MD) (Galati)
M16 Odessa - Tiraspol (MD)
M17 Sevastopol - Simferopol - Kerch
M18 ?
M19 Ratne (BY) (Brest) - Luck - Ternopil - Cernivci (MD) (Balti)
M20 Rivne - Chmelnickyj - Kamjanec-Podilskyj - Cernivci
M21 Rivne - Stolin (BY) (Zytkavicy)
M22 ?
M23 Uljanovka (M5) - Mykolajiv
M24 Cherson - Simferopol
M25 Krasnoperekopsk - Feodosija
M26 Kharkiv - Zaporizzhja - Melitopol - Simferopol

(destinations are approximate and local or English spelling may differ).

Next i'll show some pics.
 
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Some Kiev interchanges;







Some expressway, i think this is the M6 west of Kiev


major road near Dnipropetrovsk


M6 sign. Probalbly between Rivne and Lviv


M4 in the Dnipropetrovsk area. sign says from above to bottom;
Donetsk, Charkiv, Simferopol, Kurort Solonij Liman (german?)


M5 interchange in southwestern Kiev


Kiev map; Red: Expressway, yellow: Avenue with at least 2x3 lanes


M2 in northern Ukraine, the link from Kiev to Moscow


Patona Bridge in Kiev


Kiev ring projection, works start this years October


M5 Kiev - Odessa;




The Bila Tserkva interchange on the M5


M3 east of Kiev


M3 in Kiev


in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast




 
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The BBC is wrong. There is over 1700km of high capacity roads (at least 2x2 lanes). I'm not sure if they are Soviet-like motorways, or to real motorway standards, but some of them are (M5).

Ofcourse, Ukraine is one of the poorer countries in Europe, and road conditions are harsh, with winter temperatures well below -30 and in summer well over 30. If you don't have much money for road repairs, they will be cracked within 2 years.
 
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^What the hell is up with that?
 
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EIB fund Ukraine Link

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending €200 million to Ukraine for the rehabilitation of the M06 road, linking the Ukrainian capital to the neighbouring EU Member States of Hungary, Slovakia and Poland. This is the first operation of the EIB in Ukraine.
The promoter of the project is Ukravtodor, the State Road Service of Ukraine. The project will contribute to eliminating bottlenecks on the M06 road and improve the quality and security of the existing infrastructure. The M06 road is part of the Pan-European Corridor III connecting Eastern European countries with the EU's TEN (Trans-European Network).

The EIB has lent close to €87 billion over the last five years to support investment in the TENs and other major transport networks.
I hope they upgrade the road to motorway standards, since much of the road is already fourlaned.
 
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From Kiev to Zhitomir runs a very decent motorway, but then it is a complete disaster up to Lviv (Lemberg). While driving there (2004), I was really afraid that the suspension would die. After Lviv across Carpathian mountains, there is a new expressway almost to the border. The uninterrupted motorway from Kiev to the border will be vital for Ukraine, no questions.
 
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Yeah, I agree - the proposed ring road is awfully far from the city. This road might be good for bypassing the city (which is the case for Euro 2012), but local drivers simply would not use it to get from one place to another within the city. The Moscow ring road (МКАД) is designed much better in this sense (although it is regularly jammed).
 
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I really hope that Poland and Ukraine can handle the traffic of Euro 2012. The Kiev ringroad is going to be vital. I'm a bit worried about the Polish-Ukrainian border. Lots of Europeans will probably go by car, so won't the border stations get totally overcrowded? I mean, it's the outside border of the EU, and waiting times are several hours at this border.
 
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Yes, it was approved yesterday by the Ministry of Transportation. They will build this ring road in 3 stages:
  1. From Чернигов-bound highway tо Борисполь (1:30 to 4 o'clock on the map), then they will start building a 4,5km bridge across the river in the South.
  2. From Ковель-bound highway, to Житомир-bound highway, to Одесса-bound highway, then across the river to Борисполь (10 to 4 o'clock).
  3. The remaining northern part including a bridge over Dnieper.
First two parts are going to be finished by 2012, and the third - by 2017. Obviously, they want to make sure that football fans will be able to get to major football stadiums quickly by bypassing Kiev. It is a very impressive plans, but I am afraid they either will not finish it on time or finish it with numerous safety design violations as they have been known to do.



Here's the link (in Russian): http://www.segodnya.ua/news/939210.html
 
#33 ·
According to Wikipedia about the 7th ring road (proposed)

The entire expressway ring road would stretch for well over 400 kilometres; the eastern portion alone could go for 100 kilometres. All of Beijing would be encompassed, including Badaling and Miyun, and even areas as far east as Tianjin and parts of Hebei province (including Zhuozhou and Sanhe).
 
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Well, you see safety problems even on what we call quiet interchanges, like the A7/A32 interchange in Heerenveen. The AADT is 55.000 for A7 and 35.000 for A32.

Most problems occur when cloverleafs are constructed on interchange which have a lot of exiting (through) traffic.
 
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^^ That's not true. The traffic lights are located on the road, not the motorway (which wouldn't be a motorway anyway if it had traffic lights). Weaving is a much more dangerous phenomenon, especially on busy urban motorways. It is impossible to not have traffic lights on the crossroad if it's implemented as a partial cloverleaf interchange (unless you want to build a stack with a street :)).
 
#45 ·
Weaving is a much more dangerous phenomenon, especially on busy urban motorways.
Maybe in North America, not in Europe. It just takes a bit more attention to the drivers, but it's not extraordinary dangerous. A country like Germany is full with it, also on intercharges between motorways and secundary roads. There are not happening dozens of accidents there...

Of course it may be clear that when there's too much traffic there's a need for other solutions, but for preventing traffic jams, not for safety reasons.
 
#46 ·
Guys, you went completely off topic with the interchange designs ;)

Some pictures of Ukrainian highways. Taken by someone from a different Ukrainian forum.

E-40 West of Kiev


Near Ustechko


Same road toward Gorodenka




The roads, as you can see, are in a poor condition - a legacy of the Soviet Union's infrastructure. I hope they will renovate at least the major roads leading from Poland to the major Ukrainian cities where the Euro-2012 will be held.
 
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Here is an article about the Kiev Ring Road

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Government unveils $10 billion Kyiv beltway project

by Anna Poludenko, Kyiv Post Staff Writer
Mar 27 2008, 01:41


Ukrainian government officials revealed on March 20 plans to construct a 213-kilometre beltway to encircle Kyiv and its satellite neighbourhoods to relieve traffic congestion in the city’s central districts and foster economic growth.

The “Velyka Okruzhna,” planned by foreign developers in conjunction with Ukrainian national and oblast government officials, would be the most expensive development project ever pursued in Ukraine, costing an estimated $10 billion. “The highway will change the oblast picture for the better, linking suburban neighbourhoods to the capital, thereby attracting further investment into the whole region,” said Vira Ulianchenko, head of the Kyiv State Oblast Administration. If implemented, the beltway should steer traffic away from the centre, boost real estate values and ignite a development and population boom, changing the character of Ukraine’s capital. Completion of the beltway’s first section is targeted for 2012, in time for the UEFA EURO 2012 football championship, while the entire project is slated to be completed in 2017.

“This is a historic project that will differ from the rest by its building conditions,” said Transport and Communications Minister Yosyp Vinskiy. “We must do everything fast, according to European norms and standards.” Architectural planning and engineering of the new highway will cost $22.8 million and is expected to be done by mid*autumn, Vinskiy said. Construction will start at year’s end. The highway will be built in three stages: the first will be financed by the national budget and government credit, the second and third parts by private*public partnerships and international investment, he said. The four* and six*lane highway will cross eight districts in the Kyiv oblast, and 65 kilometres will be built over existing highway, Vinskiy said.

Plans also include infrastructure development along the highway, including more than 150 commercial buildings and 40 bridges. The highway will cover a total of 2,000 hectares of land, 1,200 of which are under private ownership, Vinskiy said. The government expects to adopt an eminent domain law allowing acquisition of private land needed for the project, said Roman Zhukovych, the head of the Socio*Economic Service at the Presidential Secretariat. According to the proposed law, private property owners of land intended for the beltway project will either get financial compensation or comparable land somewhere else. The highway will link the local rural population to the capital’s social services and economic opportunities, Ulianchenko said. “Many satellite cities will be inside the new highway belt, which will be a positive influence both for those who live there and for those who would like to buy land there,” said Konstantin Stepanov, head of research for the Sokrat investment group. “Kyiv will grow and little*by*little expand its borders. This is why probably in the next 15 years, those cities may become the capital’s districts.”

Land areas next to the future highway route currently range from $7,400 per 100 square meters in the Obukhiv district to $5,900 in the Boryspil district, according to SV Development, a Kyiv real estate firm. “Prices for those land areas will certainly increase,” said Vitaliy Vavryschuk, an analyst at Kyiv*based investment bank Dragon Capital. “Warehouses, hotels, restaurants, and shops will be of great value next to the highway, and of course more people would like to buy land there for building private residences,” Vavryschuk said, adding that it will be hard to estimate land valuation until construction starts.
 
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