Tatarstan invests 15 billion in upgrading tramways

From 2027, a large-scale project to update the tram infrastructure, designed for three years, will be launched in Tatarstan. As stated at a meeting of the Committee of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan on the budget of the Deputy head of the regional Ministry of Finance Oksana Kisapova, for these purposes will be sent annually 5 billion rubles, transfer “Kazanskaya Gazette”.

The program will affect all municipalities of the republic, where this type of electric transport operates, and will allow to comprehensively reconstruct the tracks, contact networks and related infrastructure.

Financial flows will be distributed in proportion to the load on transport systems: Kazan will annually receive 3 billion rubles, Naberezhnye Chelny and Nizhnekamsk - 1 billion.

Since the decision to launch the program was made at the end of September, the current draft budget has not yet included expenditures. Details of funding will be worked out soon. In addition to infrastructure works, the republic will continue to allocate 1 billion rubles annually for the renewal of rolling stock. In particular, 22 new Belarusian trams are expected to be delivered by the end of this year.