Almost 500 cars stuck in traffic jam in front of Crimean bridge in Kuban

Drivers and passengers of 475 cars are waiting to cross the bridge across the Kerch Strait in Krasnodar Krai.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, on the morning of July 18, there were 485 cars in line to the Crimean Bridge from the Taman side . There was no line at the inspection point from the Kerch side.

On July 13, Telegram users complained about drivers trying to get to the inspection points out of turn.

As of 06:00 Moscow time, there are 475 cars in line to the Crimean Bridge from the Taman side, the Information Center for Highways to the Crimean Bridge reported on its Telegram channel. "The wait is about two hours. There is no queue in front of the inspection point from the Kerch side," the report says.

According to hourly publications, traffic jams from the Kuban side began at 2:00 Moscow time.

Eyewitnesses report the situation in front of the bridge in the "Crimean Bridge Chat" Telegram chat. "We got stuck in a traffic jam at 5, the inspection is not in sight yet," Zulya comments at 5:34 Moscow time.

"We drove quickly from Crimea, but there are a lot of cars going into Crimea," Yulia Volkova writes at 6:03 Moscow time. "We got stuck in the traffic flow at 4.20, and at 5.35 we left the inspection from the Taman side," shares Olga Fil. 

Recall that 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, and 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.