“For the time being, the Podilsky bridge crossing will remain closed for heavy goods vehicles”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to him, the passage will also be a newly built tunnel that connects the overpass with the exit to Petro Vershihora Street in the direction of Roman Shukhevych Avenue and the Troyeshchyna housing estate. But the Podilskyi bridge crossing will remain closed for heavy-duty transport.
On November 27, only special vehicles and passenger bus route 111 are allowed to drive through the bridge crossing.
Improvement works and arrangement of the adjacent territory, near the newly built tunnel, will be completed by the end of the year, Klitschko adds.
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The Podilsko-Voskresensky Bridge in Kyiv has been under construction for several decades.
In 2021, the Security Service of Ukraine announced the disclosure of a scheme to embezzle funds during the construction of the Podilsky Bridge in Kyiv. According to the agency, a group of people artificially inflated the cost of works on the bridge and forged acts on completed works. It was about the mechanism of embezzlement of 3 billion hryvnias.