Deadlines to finish some APEC summit facilities extended

VLADIVOSTOK, June 17 (Itar-Tass) -- The deadlines to finish some APEC
summit facilities are extended from late 2011 to the spring of 2012, the
Primorsky Territory's Governor Sergei Darkin told a meeting in Vladivostok
on Thursday.
These are the bridge across Golden Horn (Zolotoy Rog) Bay, the highway
from the settlement of Novy to the De-Friz Peninsula, Sedanka and Patrokl
Bay with the low bridge between De-Friz and Sedanka and the section of the
highway between Patrokl Bay and Golden Horn Bay. The roads and bridges
will be open no later than May 31, 2012.
The construction will be finished by December 2011, but some work can
be done only during the warmer months. It is bridge painting,
waterproofing, asphalt-concrete covering and landscaping work, Darkin
explained.
The changes are already made to the draft federal programme. The work
for the rest facilities is proceeding according to schedule and will be
completed in time, the governor added.
The bridge across Golden Horn Bay will be a part of the new transport
system of the territory's centre. It will link central Vladivostok with
the city's Pervomaisky district on the Churkin Peninsula. The bridge will
be about 1,400 metres long, with the 733-m-long main bay part. The height
over the water is 60 metres. The total length of the construction with
interchanges will exceed two kilometres. The height of the supports is 226
metres, the second highest after the pylons of the bridge to Russky
island, which will be 320 metres high. The work has already started to
assemble the bridge.
The 40-km highway from the settlement of Novy via De-Friz and Sedanka
to Patrokl Bay will link the airport and the city and together with the
bridges across Golden Horn Bay and the Eastern Bosphorus Strait will be
the main part of the city's new transport infrastructure. A part of the
new highway will be a low 4,362-m-long bridge across Amur Bay. The bridge
construction is proceeding strictly according to schedule. Out of its 81
main supports, 49 are already completely built, and out of the 18,000
tonnes of metal constructions, 5,300 tonnes are completely assembled and
installed.