Until the end of the year in Moscow will construct about 100 km dedicated lanes for public transport

Mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin and members of the Moscow government inspected work on the device dedicated lanes for public transport on the Leningrad prospectus.According to the mayor, according to plan construction of dedicated lanes in the city about 100 km dedicated lanes will be launched before the end of 2011 and 100 km - in 2012 and 2013.

In addition, according to Sobyanin, to arrange for the allocation of parking spaces, especially where buses turn and end stops. He also noted that it is necessary to combine graphics construction and the construction of dedicated lanes vyletnyh highways. Also ordered the mayor to change the route network of public transport so as to get maximum effect from the selected bands, and instructed to provide technical means of fixing the backbone of violations, which will inevitable punishment for the illegal movement of dedicated lanes and parking in unauthorized locations. "If we implement this package of measures, we obtain three years of 300 km dedicated lanes for public transport. This is the level of the leading cities in the world" - said Sobyanin.


Within two to three weeks to be prepared the corresponding complex government regulation of Moscow, he added. It is planned that as a result of construction activities for allocated bands, the volume of traffic on public transport will increase by at least 15-20%, and speed of public transport would increase by approximately 30% - up to 27 miles per hour, it is believed the city authorities.

In particular, in 2011, planned for the selected band for stations of Leningrad, Borowski, Pyatnitsky Shchelkovsky and Yaroslavl highway, street and Lipetsk Sebastopol Avenue.