Moscow recognized the "mirror" city in Europe

9 April 2018

The Russian capital without labor ahead of London and Paris

One of the main problems of Moscow are traffic jams. The Russian capital regularly makes the list of the world leaders in traffic. For example, in published a few months ago the rating research company INRIX Moscow sanala the second line. According to analysts ' estimates, the average Muscovite spends in the tube 91 hours a year (only Los Angeles — 102 hours). Now to similar findings by a British company, GoCompare.

According to experts, Moscow has the most "clogged" roads in Europe. The capital of Russia was the undisputed leader, because its residents spend in congestion on average 91 hours per year. With a large gap to the three leaders London (73 hours) and Paris (65 hours).

Besides Moscow in the TOP 25 came in Krasnodar (56 hours), St. Petersburg (53 hours), Sochi (49 hours) Nizhniy Novgorod (47 hours).

The British reported that one of the reasons long Moscow traffic jams are "the privileges granted to the tuples of the rich and famous in the city that can stop traffic".

According to the Telegraph, the management of many large European cities included in the list, considering at least two main ways to combat traffic jams. The first is the ban on the movement on the Central streets, which often become pedestrian. The second is the development of public transport and incentives for shift from private car.

It is noteworthy that the estimates of GoCompare strikingly coincided precisely with previously published data company INRIX: indicators of most cities in the two ratings differ by only one hour, and in some cases (for example, with Moscow) and did the same. While it is virtually impossible to accurately determine the number of hours that the average resident spends in traffic. And it's really not just a coincidence: experts GoCompare used information from INRIX and the U.S. Department of transportation.