At a meeting of one of the working groups of the Directorate of the Moscow Transport Hub last April, the construction of public transport lanes on four extremely busy highways from Moscow was discussed in earnest. Transport officials from both the capital and the Moscow region are determined to roll up the special lanes outside Moscow’s ring road on the M5 (Novoryazanskoye Highway), M7 (Gorkovskoye Highway), M8 (Yaroslavskoye Highway) and A105 (Kashirskoye Highway). . As usual, the whole thing is presented under the “sauce” of improving public transport options.

Fortunately, the federal “Rosavtodor”, in whose area of ​​​​responsibility these highways are located, is not at all eager to organize “dedicated areas” for them. The specialists are sure that the mentioned highways were originally designed in such a way that the organization of “bus” lanes on them is impractical. In addition, the share of public transport on each of the four highways is no more than 1.5% of all traffic.

Officials in Moscow and the Moscow region point out that thanks to the “separate lines”, these 1.5% will move 20-40 minutes faster along their routes, Kommersant reports. About how much slower the remaining 95% of cars will go because of this, “responsible jackets” prefer to remain silent.

Meanwhile, drivers who “move” daily along the M5, M7, M8 and A105 to Moscow and back, as well as motorists who use them for weekend trips outside the city, absolutely accurately represent the extent of daily traffic jams on these routes now, in the absence of ” segregated lanes”. And they can predict with the utmost certainty a radical deterioration of the situation after the “improvement” lobbied by regional officials.

At a meeting of one of the working groups of the Directorate of the Moscow Transport Hub last April, the construction of public transport lanes on four extremely busy highways from Moscow was discussed in earnest. Transport officials from both the capital and the Moscow region are determined to roll up the special lanes outside Moscow’s ring road on the M5 (Novoryazanskoye Highway), M7 (Gorkovskoye Highway), M8 (Yaroslavskoye Highway) and A105 (Kashirskoye Highway). . As usual, the whole thing is presented under the “sauce” of improving public transport options.

Fortunately, the federal “Rosavtodor”, in whose area of ​​​​responsibility these highways are located, is not at all eager to organize “dedicated areas” for them. The specialists are sure that the mentioned highways were originally designed in such a way that the organization of “bus” lanes on them is impractical. In addition, the share of public transport on each of the four highways is no more than 1.5% of all traffic.

Officials in Moscow and the Moscow region point out that thanks to the “separate lines”, these 1.5% will move 20-40 minutes faster along their routes, Kommersant reports. About how much slower the remaining 95% of cars will go because of this, “responsible jackets” prefer to remain silent.

Meanwhile, drivers who “move” daily along the M5, M7, M8 and A105 to Moscow and back, as well as motorists who use them for weekend trips outside the city, absolutely accurately represent the extent of daily traffic jams on these routes now, in the absence of ” segregated lanes”. And they can predict with the utmost certainty a radical deterioration of the situation after the “improvement” lobbied by regional officials.