As local media reports today, the revised project for a ring railroad construction was approved yesterday by President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev. Works on the construction site will begin in the near future. A double track mainline will pass through the outside of the Tashkent Ring Road.
Builders have to construct a number of railway bridges and road junctions, hundreds of underground and overground pedestrian crossings. The ring road’s stations will be connected by pedestrian crossings with end metro stations.
A total investment in the project will reach $265 million and the funds will be allocated from the state budget and the Fund of Reconstruction and Development of Uzbekistan.