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“Road pavement reinforcement works worth 1.3 million. It is now carried out by the Kauno tiltai company. It is scheduled to be completed by the end of this year,” said Remigijus Lipkevičius, director of the BNS Directorate.
According to him, until the repair work is completed, there will be no traffic on the Panemunė bypass.
Bypass for more than 26 million. The Latvian and Lithuanian road and bridge construction companies Latvijas tilti and Kauno keliai, but after finding major defects, the companies did not agree to repair them on their own, so the Highway Administration decided to buy the works again and request compensation to court. for additional costs.
According to the head of LAKD, the court has not yet applied, because the damage is still being calculated.
“Until now, the court has not applied, because the final amount of damages has not yet been calculated,” said R. Lipkevičius.
Following the completion of construction of the approaches to the bridge in the fall of 2015, the commission found no violations. However, it was later observed that the road sank in some places by around 1 meter due to the 5 meter layer of peat below it. Experts have found that there is a marked deformation of the bedrock in the section: if not repaired, the road would settle another 12.5 centimeters in 10 years.
Until the beginning of the bedrock reinforcement, the new bypass was used only by border services, traffic was planned to be open to all when Russia completed the construction of the bridge and installed the road infrastructure on its side. LAKD says it has no data on whether Russia has completed all the planned work.
10 million The European Union has allocated one billion euros to support the bypass.
After several years of discussions, Lithuania and Russia signed an agreement on the construction of a new bridge over the Nemunas and its approaches in 2011. The bridge that will connect Panemunė and Tilžė should increase the capacity of the border checkpoints between Lithuania and Karaliaučius .
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