For the second day, the Russian capital is stuck in many kilometers of traffic jams due to an incredibly heavy snowfall. All equipment has been thrown to clean the streets, while the authorities of the capital are urging drivers not to go anywhere. In the meantime, it will snow until Friday.
The congestion of the roads, as well as the day before, in the morning rush hour reached nine points out of ten possible, the specialists of the service called Yandex. Traffic jams». Usually traffic jams at this time of day are rated at four or five..
Snowfall, like yesterday morning, complicated the road situation. Traffic jams and obstructions occur on almost all highways. Traffic has especially worsened on Michurinsky and Leningradsky Prospekt, Andropov Prospect, Lipetskaya Street. On both sides of the Moscow Ring Road there are several traffic jams, ten to twenty kilometers each. Drivers have a very hard time on the Garden Ring and the Third Transport Ring. The length of traffic jams on Moscow roads is three point four thousand kilometers — as from Moscow to Novosibirsk itself.