"The Road of death": the city government presented a new 46A bus route

      About this Newsler.ru I learned not from the Prosecutor's Office or the Investigative Committee, not from the traffic police or the head of the City Administration, but from ordinary bus drivers who call the "municipal highway project route 46A in the Novovyatsky microdistrict" nothing other than "the road of death" or "suicide route" or "fatal experiment on mice."

      Recall that due to the start of construction of the tunnel under the Trans-Siberian Railway, route 46 passenger bus will not be able to cross the Novovyatsky crossing towards Kirovo-Chepetsk, therefore passengers will be transported to the railway tracks for "walking there" using the usual route 46. And beyond the crossing, towards Kirovo—Chepetsk, there is a new 46A.

      Moreover, the route will take place along Novovyatsky streets, the standard of which does not meet the "most important road criterion" — a width of at least six meters.

      Today, any Kirov resident — a driver or a pedestrian, a prosecutor or a traffic policeman, as well as Vyacheslav Simakov or Alexander Sokolov, can independently overcome the "suicide road", armed with a tape measure and the knowledge that the width of the bus is two and a half meters. As well as the fact that there should be at least 20 road signs on a two-way road section with a length of 1800 meters.

      So, if a bus with the letter "A" leaves from Parkovaya Street in the Novovyatsky district (41 microdistricts), from the usual U-turn circle 46 of the route, onto Lenin, Kommunisticheskaya and Sovetskaya, where it turns left onto Proletarskaya (starting point), and then onto Tukhachevsky, you should know that the width of both streets does not exceed five meters. This makes it impossible for any attempt to leave not only with an oncoming bus, but also with passenger cars, the owners of which live in 300 private houses in the neighborhood.

      And, if you managed to pass the intersection with Mayakovsky without major damage to your nerves and health, then the continuation of Tukhachevsky will present an even more unpleasant gift, narrowing to 3.7 meters. But this is not the limit either, as the next Linear Street has shrunk to three and a half meters. Although passengers traveling to Kirov can relax and say thank you to the Almighty, as this is a place of disembarkation for them. And for transit travelers from Kirov, a blessed landing site.

      However, the return along Shkolnaya Street will not be easy: on its width of five meters, without "close contact" with tearing off the mirrors, you will not be able to leave. But from the intersection with Rosa Luxemburg Street, you can go out into the open right up to the terminus at Parkovaya.

      It is worth noting that an attempt to let an oncoming car or bus pass by illegally hiding (there are no cameras) on the sidewalk, it will be absolutely unsuccessful, since there are no sidewalks in that area... But with an active reluctance to head-on collision, because only a double suicide bomber can decide to overtake, there is a risk of being behind or along with a fence on the territory of a private farmstead.

      And one could call the situation "piquant", but the definition of "fatal" is more appropriate, associated with the complete absence of bus shelters or, in extreme cases, "check-in pockets", without which it is impossible to safely disembark passengers.

      At the same time, you don't have to look for road signs (even "Pedestrian Crossing"), since 20 days before the opening of Suicide Road, only two graphic images of "Give Way" were seen on the highway — at the intersections of Sovetskaya and Proletarskaya streets, as well as Shkolnaya and Rosa Luxemburg Streets.Don't believe your ears

      By the way, by publishing this material, Newsler.ru He "very much hopes" for the intervention of the security forces, since any accident, and God forbid, with human casualties, on bus route 46A will be explained, with a very high degree of probability, by the "inaction of the pre-warned regulatory authorities."

      At the same time Newsler.ru He understands that the process of bringing the road into proper condition — at least up to six meters — is a delay in the start of construction of the Novovyatsky tunnel (summer 2025) and, accordingly, a violation of the deadlines for commissioning, which is unlikely to be welcomed by the regulations of the "Putin project". After all, according to the Kirov governor, it was the president who approved the construction, allocating federal funding. Which, according to estimates of 2022, amounted to 3.19 billion rubles. So this year, the cost of work can be mentally doubled, assuming that additional financing is the task of the regional and municipal budgets.

      As the representative of the Kirov Ministry of Transport explained, after such an article, in his opinion, Simakov (the head of the City Administration) "gets hot in one place." Therefore, it is almost certain that ways out of the current situation will be thought up and announced, and, most likely, "the head of the Novovyatsky territorial administration will be publicly punished." And, as the most likely option, the dangerous part of the highway will be declared one-sided, so that after turning around at the railway tracks, buses would travel to 41 residential districts not on the oncoming lane, but along other streets.:

      "Don't believe any promises, because a project is needed to build a new road, and there is no other one there. Then its technical and estimated approval by the state expertise, which, even under the accelerated version, takes two years... The only thing I admit is that the city can coordinate and even install road signs and traffic lights in three to four months. But what you wrote about today is photographically consistent with the situation. Especially about predicting human casualties on a road whose sides are sidewalks."

      Is the great new the forgotten old?

      As the Government source "recalled," no complaints from city officials about the lack of time to prepare the new route 46A are likely "not true." Since the tunnel project under the Transsib was given life back in ... 2022 (the project itself and its cost were presented by the then head of the Ministry of Transport, Yuri Loginov). So in a full three years, it was possible to prepare for the start of construction.

      By the way, conducting my own investigation, Newsler.ru I found not only evidence of this, but also some really piquant nuances. So, the preliminary design of the tunnel was made by Vyatavtodor on the instructions of then head of government Alexander Churin. But the new leadership of the region, accusing him of interfering in the work and causing damage to a commercial enterprise (100% owned by the Regional Government), filed a complaint with the Investigative Committee in order to bring the prime minister to criminal responsibility.

      But when the criminal case was not moved forward — without finding signs of "malicious intent", the tunnel project, without becoming evidence, automatically passed as a "dowry" to the regional leadership. Who, declaring himself almost the "main initiator and designer," loudly told in the Kremlin and in Kirov about his grandiose plans. From which the city administration has not taken almost a single step towards execution.

      Well, Vyatavtodor was left out of business as usual: in October 2024, Alexander Sokolov named the general contractor, Avtoban JSC. By the way, the most oppositional Kirov politicians "bet" that, most likely, "no one will build anything." And Newsler.ru Rather, he will also side with the majority.