Monday, July 2, 2012

Moscow’s Traffic Congestion


The auto ownership went up dramatically in Moscow after the fall of communism in 1989. The major roads in the city have very little ground level activity, no grade level pedestrian crossings, uninviting pedestrian underpasses, no dedicated lanes for public transport and practically zero parking management.

Then with the arrival of the free market the rate of car ownership grew massively and as experienced before (in the United States before the Second World War and in Europe shortly after it) the consequences are the removal of tramways, the lack of segregated lanes for buses, and minimum pedestrian crossings to allow maximum space for car flows.”



Reference and photo credit: Parolotto, Federico, Moscow’s mobility: there is no space left to walk…, flow-n, MIC Research Unit.
 
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