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Russia : St Petersburg's renewed Orlovsky Tunnel project is again and still in general plan

The general plan of St. Petersburg is posted on the website of the city administration.And it includes again the Orlovsky Tunnel. Given its history, one wonders if it ever be built!

https://spbdnevnik.ru/news/2023-10-11/genplan-peterburga-vklyuchaet-novye-mosty-puteprovody-i-tonnel

St Petersburg's Orlovsky tunnel project goes some years back. There was an earlier concession agreement with LLC Nevskaya Concession Company (of First Quantum group) for construction of the Orlovsky tunnel. A two level and three lanes at each direction. But in 2012, the contract was terminated.

On November 30, 2021, chairman of the Committee for the Development of Transport Infrastructure (KRTI) of St. Petersburg, Andrey Levakin, said that they support the construction of the  Orlovsky automobile Tunnel.

But criticism has been going on the way St Petersburg handles the "new" project and it is seen as a new occurrence of corruption...

 

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