Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel met head of the regional division of Highway Administration Vladimir Plishkin to discuss the highway extension proposal for Yekaterinburg-Koltsovo airport route. This is planned to become a four- to six-lane highway; 11.2 kilometers of road will undergo reconstruction using 3,000 tons of cement and more than 100,000 tons of asphalt concrete. The project is expected to be completed in May 2009.