More than 750 cars are waiting in line in front of the Crimean Bridge in Kuban
Drivers and passengers of 757 cars are waiting in Krasnodar Krai to cross the Kerch Strait, authorities reported.
"Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote that the line of cars approaching the Crimean Bridge from the Kuban side dissipated after 10 p.m. on June 29. Before midnight, the bridge was closed for an hour, after its opening, Telegram users reported a short wait time.
However, by the morning of June 30, queues of hundreds of cars had again accumulated on both sides of the bridge across the Kerch Strait. By 20:00 Moscow time, the traffic jam had been cleared from the Kerch side, but it still remains from the Krasnodar Krai side.
Moreover, at least twice in the last 24 hours, traffic on the bridge was completely blocked, including today after midnight, when traffic on the Crimean Bridge was closed for almost two hours, according to the operational Telegram channel of the information center about the situation on the automobile approaches to the bridge.
According to data as of 7:00 Moscow time, 757 vehicles are in the queue from the Taman side, and the waiting time for passage is more than two hours. At the same time, there is currently no queue in front of the inspection point from the Kerch side.
Users in the Telegram chat "Crimean Bridge" tell about the situation on the spot in the first person.
"Brother has been waiting at the scanner since yesterday at 12 at night, he is just arriving. He says there are about 300-400 cars behind him at the scanner," commentator Maxim Shevchenko wrote at 7.38 Moscow time.
"Traffic jam from the Taman side at 8.5 km. Do not exceed the speed limit, as the traffic jam starts abruptly, behind the "Z" sign. If you have not yet passed Rostov, it is better to go via the land route. There is no traffic jam from the Kerch side," user Anastasia Anastasia shared information at 7.36 Moscow time.
Recall that on July 1, 2024, 1,078 cars were waiting in line on both sides of the Crimean Bridge. On July 15 of the same year, 1,400 cars were waiting in line on the Taman side , and 350 cars on the Kerch side.
On July 17, 2023, the Crimean Bridge was attacked by Ukrainian drones, one span was destroyed, and another was damaged. Traffic on the bridge was restored only on November 1 of the same year.
On October 8, 2022, an explosion occurred on the Crimean Bridge, and two spans collapsed. Vladimir Putin called the incident a terrorist attack, the FSB said that the organizer of the terrorist attack was the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. The traffic on the bridge was resumed a month later.
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Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/412704