Traffic on the Crimean Bridge will be opened for cars at 05:30 Moscow time on May 16, 2018. This is six months earlier than the deadline stipulated by the government contract (December 2018). The first to cross the bridge will be local residents – Crimeans and Kuban residents.
Passage for passenger vehicles and passenger buses will open simultaneously from both banks of the Kerch Strait - two lanes in each direction. The maximum permitted speed will be 90 km/h. Stopping on the bridge is prohibited.
Entrance to the road approaches to the Crimean Bridge from the Taman and Kerch Peninsulas will be opened an hour before the start of traffic on the bridge - at 4:30 am on May 16. To get to the bridge from the Krasnodar Territory, you need to follow the federal highway A-290 to the junction with the new road on the Taman Peninsula. Further 40 km along the auto approach to the Crimean Bridge. From the side of the Republic of Crimea, traffic starts from the junction on the existing Simferopol - Kerch highway and then 8.6 km to the Crimean Bridge.
On the eve of the launch of traffic, on May 15, the road part of the Crimean Bridge will be solemnly opened by bridge builders: a column of construction equipment will pass along the road. Representatives of bridge crews from different regions of the country will take part in the event. Among them are leading industry specialists who have completed global construction projects: BAM, preparation for the APEC summit in Vladivostok, the Universiade in Kazan, and the Olympics in Sochi.
“The Crimean Bridge team consists of more than 10 thousand workers and engineers who were able to build the bridge in difficult natural conditions six months ahead of schedule,” noted Arkady Rotenberg, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the STROYGAZMONTAZH company.
