In Los Angeles, we have built 16 km of highway in 30 hours

Fantastic speed road construction demonstrated to the world the municipal authorities and road builders in Los Angeles. On the construction of a new 16-kilometer four-lane highway, which runs through the center of the city, it was spent only 30 hours. The cost of the road was in 6, 4 times less than the construction of the Fourth Ring of Moscow.

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Road works are scheduled for the weekend of 16-18 July for the construction was given 48 hours to builders threatened a heavy fine in the amount of 6 thousand. Dollars for every 10 minutes of delay beyond the allotted two days to work. For such measures officials were forced to motorists on Monday did not stand in a traffic jam.
By the beginning of the reign of the Los Angeles County has launched a campaign to clean up the city roads by private vehicles. This officials helped themselves motorists, many of whom were not at the weekend to drive. Operational services of the city shooting for their employees hotel rooms to the weekend they are not late for work. The metro and bus routes were introduced free.



By the situation connected and private companies. For example, the airline introduced special JetBlue flights between airports on opposite outskirts of the city. The ticket price was $ 4-5 and duration of the flight - half an hour.
The unprecedented joint efforts of city services and citizens themselves have led to the fact that the very next day after the start of work on July 17, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called a press conference at which he announced that the work was completed in the 18 hours before, in less than 30 hours . For early completion of all works contractors received additional remuneration.
16-kilometer highway cost nearly $ 1 billion. Or 62, 5 million per kilometer, which is 6, 4 times less than a kilometer to the fourth ring of Moscow, where the price reached $ 400 million. Kilometer highway in Russia on average is 12, 9 million.



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