The cost of building 1 kilometer of highway in Russia
Highways, expressways and ordinary roads with a lane width of 3.75 m belong to Category I roads. One km for such motorways costs 52.3 million rubles.
For category II roads, the lane width is 3.5 m, one km of road costs 42.5 million rubles.lei. If the width of the road is 3 m, this is already category III and the cost of one km will be 37.1 million rubles. There are also the most ordinary roads with a total width of 4.5 m, one km of such roads costs 14 million rubles. On average, officials consider the cost of one km of road to be 28.85 million rubles.
Cost of highway construction in other countries
When compared with foreign countries, Russia's costs are much lower. If it costs 47.5 million rubles to build a regular category II road in Russia, then in the USA it costs 270 million rubles, in Canada it is slightly less — 233 million rubles, in China — 226 million rubles, and in Sweden it is already 153 million rubles. Thus, the difference in prices with the States is more than 5.5 times.
However, it is necessary to take into account the quality of the canvas, which in Russia is noticeably inferior to American or European. If in the USA and Germany a third of roads are made of cement concrete, then in Russia we use less quality and less durable asphalt concrete.