How Moscow fights traffic jams
Cars slowly move along a bridge in traffic jam in central Moscow on March 6, 2020 AFP For almost a decade, Moscow has ranked first in the world’s road congestion rankings. What is the Russian capital doing to overcome the problem and why is it not working?
“The streets were deserted, like in some post-apocalyptic movie. It was especially creepy in the center of Moscow, where all life had completely stopped,” is how Moscow driver Ruslan Seregin describes the roads in Moscow during the coronavirus pandemic in the spring of 2020. Back then, motorists could only get around with a special digital pass in the form of a QR code, obtained in advance by specifying the purpose of the trip using a special app or website. For the first time ever, Seregin got to enjoy near empty roads in Moscow.
Design solution
In the courtyards, roads will be repaired, playgrounds will be updated, new benches and lanterns will be installed.
In the new season of the program “My region” included more than one and a half hundred objects of the North-Western Administrative District. Courtyards, school grounds, spaces near the metro and Moscow Central Diameters will be landscaped during 2021.
Roads and sidewalks will be repaired in almost 100 yards of the North-West Administrative District, new benches and waste bins will be installed, and container platforms will be put in order. The rubber coating will be renewed on the playgrounds.
The works will take place on the streets of Solovyinaya Roshcha, Rodionovskaya, Vorotynskaya, General Beloborodov, Dubravnaya, Baryshikha, Muravskaya, Mitinskaya, Gabrichevsky, Heroes-Panfilovtsev, Turistskaya, Jan Rainis, Tallinskaya, Isakovsky, Kulakov, Marshal Katushl Gnevolovskoy, Marshal Generavniki, Marshal Berzarin, Novikov-Priboy, Demyan Bedny, Mars