As of 5 p.m., the traffic police received 163 calls about road accidents during the day. The TV2 news agency was informed about this by the Tomsk State Traffic Inspectorate. On average, department employees record 60-70 calls per day. The traffic police associate the increase in the number of accidents with weather conditions.

TV-2 celebrates its birthday in May. 15th. First airing. But in fact, TV-2 also had a second birthday. August 1991 - three days of a failed coup. In those days, TV-2 was the only Tomsk media that tried to talk about what was happening in Moscow. They even managed to send a film crew to Moscow. Now, in the era of the Internet, it is difficult for young people to imagine how much the information that could be heard from the television screens of Tomsk thanks to TV-2 meant to the city.

Today at 15:00 there will be a picket on Novo-Cathedral Square against the increase in fares. It was organized by representatives of the Liberal Democratic Party.

The economy must be economical. City deputies adopted the draft budget for 2015. The main financial document of Tomsk was already in deficit at the start. Moreover, the shortage has reached its maximum level.

The city's revenues for 2015 will amount to 10.54 billion rubles, expenses - 11.2 billion rubles, reports the press service of the Tomsk administration. According to the head of the finance department, Irina Yartseva, the 2015 budget is planned with a deficit of 638 million rubles. “The formation of the budget took place in difficult conditions. The nationwide slowdown in economic growth could not but affect the city’s economy.

Late in the evening, at 90 km of the Sharypovo-Uzhur-Balahta highway, the driver of a Volvo passenger bus, heading from Minusinsk to Tomsk, lost control while overtaking, overturned and fell into a ditch, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Krasnoyarsk Territory reports. There were 16 passengers and 2 drivers inside the bus. As a result of the accident, two passengers - a man born in 1949 and a woman born in 1963 - died.

Today the Crisis Center operates only in Tomsk, but residents of remote settlements also need help. Therefore, representatives of the Tomsk organization took the initiative to open crisis centers for women in all districts of the Tomsk region. This was reported by RIA Tomsk with reference to the head of the city Crisis Center for Women, Elena Turutina .

An initiative group of residents of the village of Kaftanchikovo invites the TV-2 film crew to a meeting of village residents with the administration - on Friday, December 12, at 14-30. We are closing the only Sberbank in the entire Zarechny District - and this is Kaftanchikovo, Kaltai, Kurlek - a huge number of pensioners - who will have to go to the city, cash out money, pay for housing and communal services, etc. They decided to sell the Sberbank building for some reason!! !

At the end of December, the Public Chamber should bring up for discussion the issue regarding the closure of the TV2 television company. In the meantime, members of the chamber shared their attitude to the current situation.

Public transport fares in Tomsk will be increased only if the city administration and carriers can reach an agreement. This agreement will have to guarantee Tomsk residents the quality work of carriers. Tomsk Mayor Ivan Klein announced this at a meeting of the City Duma on Tuesday. The route operators appealed to the mayor's office with a request to increase fares due to the rise in gasoline prices and the increase in the cost of compulsory motor liability insurance policies.

In 2015, viewers will be able to rate the performances of state theaters using a five-point system, Izvestia reports. Opinions will be taken into account on the Internet and in the foyers of institutions, where viewers will be offered questionnaires.

Dozens of motorists were stuck in traffic jams at the Stepanovsky crossing for several hours this afternoon. For Tomsk drivers, such road conditions on this section have already become familiar. Sometimes the barrier closes several times an hour. Drivers have to wait a long time for the permissive semaphore signal. But today the situation has become more complicated due to poorly cleared roads.

Dozens of bags with clothes, bedding and food. Tomsk residents collected help for a family from Donetsk. The other day we told a story about the life of refugees in the Shegarsky district, about how a family of five settled in a small one-room apartment, where they work and in what conditions they live. Our viewers immediately responded and offered their help.

This year, local entrepreneurs will allocate part of the funds for the New Year's illumination in Tomsk. Tomsk Mayor Ivan Klein announced this at a meeting of the City Duma. “We found a business opportunity to use 10 million rubles for the purchase of illumination. Krasnoarmeyskaya Street, Lenin Ave. from the square to the end, other streets will be decorated. This issue has been resolved, and I am convinced that the city will be illuminated,” said Ivan Klein.

On the Irkutsk highway, a teenage girl was hit by a truck during the day. This was reported to the traffic police. The accident occurred at 14:24 on Irkutsk tract, 158g. A truck ran over a girl born in 1999 as she crossed the roadway. She was taken to the hospital with injuries. Let us add that photographs from the scene of the accident posted on social networks show that the truck involved in the collision belongs to Spetsavtohozyaystvo.