Often ranked among the world's top 5 capital cities with the biggest traffic jams, Moscow is not a place to have a car. Indeed, the scale of traffic jams is in proportions with the size of the roads as well as the number of commuters and Muscovites driving in the capital city every day. Roads in Moscow's city centre start from 8-10 lanes (which means 4-5 in each way), and about 1.5 million commuters and 12 million permanent residents, 1.3 million temporary residents and an additional estimated million of residents without documents. In 2009, there were over 3 million cars in the city on a daily basis and their number keeps augmenting every year. Bear in mind that, Moscow being the capital of a developing country, not only the number of cars augments every year, but so does the population.
As a consequence, with the metro opened from 5am to 1am, and metros every 30seconds to 2minutes, around 12 million people prefer travelling underground (and enjoy the beauty of the stations by the same occasion). While Parisians complain about the Place de l'Etoile and London commuters about the M25, let's have a look at real пробки. Here are some pictures of what traffic is like in Russia's capital city:
As a consequence, with the metro opened from 5am to 1am, and metros every 30seconds to 2minutes, around 12 million people prefer travelling underground (and enjoy the beauty of the stations by the same occasion). While Parisians complain about the Place de l'Etoile and London commuters about the M25, let's have a look at real пробки. Here are some pictures of what traffic is like in Russia's capital city:
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