Bottlenecks in a key road through Central Ukraine – the E-50 running east from Lviv to Uman – will be repaired and rebuilt this year summer

Bottlenecks in a key road through Central Ukraine – the E-50 running east from Lviv to Uman – will be repaired and rebuilt this year summer, Slawomir Novak, head of Ukravtodor, the nation’s highways agency, posts on Facebook. Instead of a tortuous, 12-hour, 60 km/hour drive over 765 km, the rebuild should allow a 7.5-hour drive at 100 km/hour. The project will bring to EU standards 90% of Ukraine’s Gdansk to Odesa ‘GO’ Highway. In 2020, work is to be done on the final two sections: the 276 km from Odesa Port to Uman; and the 75 km west from Lviv to Krakovets, on the Polish border.