PADUO POCTOBA - Специальный репортаж - Ремонт ростовских дорог - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Large-scale repairs of Rostov roads are expected to begin at the end of June. This was announced by the head of the directorate for the construction of transport infrastructure facilities, Igor Dyuzhikov. Meanwhile, contractors only repair the destruction of the top layer of asphalt. In Rostov, more and more potholes are appearing every day due to the fault of utility workers whose networks are in a worn-out condition. Denis Malyshev looked into why this happens.

On line 31, asphalt has collapsed in the same place three times since the beginning of the year. The last time - a meter, but it could have been deeper: 6 meters below ground level - a sewer pipe. Water seeps out of it and washes away the soil, Bagrat Topalov, a resident of the house opposite, told me.

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Potholes like the one on line 31 appear in the city center every week. They often form on the site of old road patches, which are left by utility workers after repairing underground utilities. Sometimes potholes appear after heavy rain, as happened during the first thunderstorm on Semashko/Beregovaya. The rain washed away several meters of asphalt. Previously, there were constant breaks in the heating network in this area, an engineer at Lukoil-TTK explained to RR; he asked that his name not be used.

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Another example is Saryan Street a month ago: a section of the road the size of a truck went underground. It took three days to fill the 5 meter deep hole. The collapse on Saryan was preceded by the destruction of an underground sewer, and the owner of communications should bear responsibility, explains Dmitry Vasiliev, a specialist in the city road department.

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According to experts, roads after utility accidents are destroyed in almost the same way: first, the asphalt sags and small but deep holes are formed. And a couple of days later - a fresh failure. Their number on the streets of Rostov will only grow. The degree of wear and tear of public utilities in the city varies from 40 to 65 percent, city manager Sergei Gorban stated not so long ago.

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Potholes on roads pose an obvious threat to motorists and pedestrians. And they also hit our wallets. The thing is that after the intervention of utility services, the five-year warranty ceases to apply to the site, explains Sergei Levchenko, a road expert from the All-Russian Popular Front.

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However, over time, all roads destroyed due to the fault of public utilities are included by the mayor’s office in the current repair plan and then they are still restored at the expense of taxpayers’ money. Or they could do it under warranty. This is on the one hand, on the other: water utilities and heating networks also do not remain at a loss. They compensate for their costs of patching holes after their own accidents by increasing utility tariffs.

To conclude the report, a few numbers. The cost of repairing one square meter of road averages about 3 thousand rubles. And the failures as a result of erosion are much larger than ordinary holes - their area on average ranges from 2 to 10 meters.