It turned out why Putin had not yet approved the construction of the Moscow-Kazan high-speed rail
For more than five years, Russia has been discussing the construction of the Moscow-Kazan High-Speed Railway (HSR). And we in detail described what was happening earlier. However economic the validity of construction raises big questions.
After all, the HSR is designed for passenger traffic. Mankind has no freight trains capable of accelerating to 300 km / h, and even more so to 400 km / h, and it is not known when they will appear, if at all. That is, the HSR is justified for territories with a high population density. For example, in Japan, about 125 million people live on a modest land plot, where the high-speed railways are profitable, rather than stupidly buried in the ground and partially “mastered” by officials along the way. This also applies to a number of European countries, although there the economic effect of operating the high-speed rail is much more modest.
The forerunner of the HSR movement is China, where a large part of the population of almost one and a half billion countries lives in the coastal region. And in Russia, in two megacities (Moscow and St. Petersburg), together with the associated agglomerations, 30 million people live, i.e. 20% of the population of a gigantic country half the size of Eurasia, the largest continent on the planet.
Therefore, it is not surprising that Russian President Vladimir Putin has not yet approved the construction of the Moscow-Kazan HSR, which is estimated to cost 1,3–1,7 trillion. rub., and possibly more expensive.
Moreover, as the newspaper clarifies Kommersant, referring to its sources of information, despite the support by the Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev for the construction of the Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod high-speed rail route, the president did not approve this project either. The Russian leader is leaning toward the position of Deputy Prime Minister Anton Siluanov, who offers to abandon the project, limiting himself to the construction of a new Moscow-Kazan highway. It is emphasized that the decision has not yet been made and everything will be finally decided on April 11, 2019 at a meeting of the heads of various departments with the participation of Vladimir Putin.
At the same time, the president has already instructed to work out the Moscow-St. Petersburg high-speed rail, since there is more serious passenger traffic. However, the larger-scale high-speed project Eurasia, which should go from Beijing (China) to Berlin (Germany), now hangs in the air.
After all, the HSR is designed for passenger traffic. Mankind has no freight trains capable of accelerating to 300 km / h, and even more so to 400 km / h, and it is not known when they will appear, if at all. That is, the HSR is justified for territories with a high population density. For example, in Japan, about 125 million people live on a modest land plot, where the high-speed railways are profitable, rather than stupidly buried in the ground and partially “mastered” by officials along the way. This also applies to a number of European countries, although there the economic effect of operating the high-speed rail is much more modest.
The forerunner of the HSR movement is China, where a large part of the population of almost one and a half billion countries lives in the coastal region. And in Russia, in two megacities (Moscow and St. Petersburg), together with the associated agglomerations, 30 million people live, i.e. 20% of the population of a gigantic country half the size of Eurasia, the largest continent on the planet.
Therefore, it is not surprising that Russian President Vladimir Putin has not yet approved the construction of the Moscow-Kazan HSR, which is estimated to cost 1,3–1,7 trillion. rub., and possibly more expensive.
Moreover, as the newspaper clarifies Kommersant, referring to its sources of information, despite the support by the Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev for the construction of the Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod high-speed rail route, the president did not approve this project either. The Russian leader is leaning toward the position of Deputy Prime Minister Anton Siluanov, who offers to abandon the project, limiting himself to the construction of a new Moscow-Kazan highway. It is emphasized that the decision has not yet been made and everything will be finally decided on April 11, 2019 at a meeting of the heads of various departments with the participation of Vladimir Putin.
At the same time, the president has already instructed to work out the Moscow-St. Petersburg high-speed rail, since there is more serious passenger traffic. However, the larger-scale high-speed project Eurasia, which should go from Beijing (China) to Berlin (Germany), now hangs in the air.
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