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Moscow road plan calls for new links

Moscow will benefit from an additional 100km of roads being added to the city’s network during 2018. This road expansion should help address the chronic congestion problems in Russia’s capital city. The work will include the opening of much of the city’s new North-Western and North-Eastern Chords. This is expected to increase traffic capacity by as much as 30% in the city’s urban areas. Other important links scheduled to open include an overpass for the Rublevskoe highway and a stretch of the Kiyevskoye to
May 29, 2018 Read time: 1 min

Moscow will benefit from an additional 100km of roads being added to the city’s network during 2018. This road expansion should help address the chronic congestion problems in Russia’s capital city. The work will include the opening of much of the city’s new North-Western and North-Eastern Chords. This is expected to increase traffic capacity by as much as 30% in the city’s urban areas. Other important links scheduled to open include an overpass for the Rublevskoe highway and a stretch of the Kiyevskoye to Kaluzhskoye Highway.

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