Authorities and roads

The overlap of the Leningrad highway led to a delay of more than a thousand (according to some estimates) a plane person. But perhaps the most difficult situation is now not with them, but by Yuri Luzhkov and the Moscow authorities, which the General Director of Sheremetyevo indirectly accused of collapse. On this occasion, they will have to make concessions of the political or economic plan. Otherwise, the question "Where is the resignation?"

Popures of the known expression - "Russia has two troubles - power and roads. But real trouble begins when the first begins to repair the second." The overlap of the Leningrad highway led to a delay of more than a thousand (according to some estimates) a plane person. True, tour operators say that passengers warn there are also few cases.

The inconvenience of passengers caused the reaction of the prime minister himself. “If our passengers from Sheremetyevo will not be able to fly out, then this will be a problem. Please work with the Moscow authorities, take the necessary actions together to improve the situation, ”Putin said at a meeting of the Presidium, addressing Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov. “Do not get to Sheremetyevo, people complain,” Putin added. The road to Sheremetyevo took 4-5 hours by car, reported to the Prime Minister Ivanov.

What specific people and whom they complain about, the prime minister did not explain, but it is obvious that they should complain primarily about the Moscow authorities, who staged a repair of the road. The complainant is also known - this is the general director of the Sheremetyevo airport Mikhail Vasilenko. On his blog yesterday, he wrote: “According to the decree of the Moscow government on June 26, at the 24th kilometer of the highway at the site of the highway and the October Railway, the overpass repair began. Instead of six lanes with sin, two work in half. At the same time, a congress was closed towards the Moscow Ring Road from the International Highway coming from the airport. As a result, multi -kilometer traffic jams paralyzed not only the Leningrad highway, but also all ways of detour - Dmitrovka; New Riga; Roads going through Kurkino and Starbeevo ”and so on . And he called for the response to the post of Yuri Luzhkov, who does not lead blogs and is already so informationally open that in his own expression “in swimming trunks”.

Sheremetyevo estimates the price of the day of downtime at 400 thousand dollars, the damage at the moment - at least 700 thousand. The Prosecutor General and the FAS have already connected to the investigation of the reasons for the “transport collapse.

You can be happy for the openness of the authorities (one post in LJ - and such a reaction). You can be surprised as Vladimir Zhirinovsky by the poor information openness of the Moscow authorities, which de facto tore off the information campaign to notify Muscovites about the overlap of the highway. A simple question: what does the story of the airport and the highway tell us? Firstly, if Vasilenko is right and the competition “Vnukovo” with Sheremetyevo is to blame for everything, then we have a traditional already administrative (boot. Power) raiding. At what level such an operation would not be carried out, it was not possible without a decision of the Moscow government and, probably, the mayor will have to answer.

Second: ordinary headlight could take place. True, it is not clear that in this case worse - “stupidity or treason”. Ignorance of the laws of nature even less often exempts from responsibility than ignorance of human laws. The Moscow authorities are still languishing, they say, “the safety of citizens is more important for them”, and the prosecutor's office and the prosecutor’s office and the prosecutor’s office were punished to repair the overpass (as the deputy mayor of the Moscow mayor Petr Biryukov stated at the press conference).

But from liability it may well free knowledge of the laws of politics. Yuri Luzhkov is an outstanding politician. Surely here is a frank defeat (public criticism of the prime minister, for the second time in recent months), he will be able to beat and go out with minimal losses. You can fire the prefect or hand over a government member. However, concessions are inevitable, otherwise the fee for exemption from liability can become quick (and even early, which will be characteristic) dismissal from his position. True, the Kremlin did not present a clear candidate in the Moscow mayor and who could become the next Moscow mayor is absolutely unclear. The risks for the Kremlin are known - we have already announced some of them (see the Servation of the President and the Civil Defense of Moscow ) ..

It is also interesting how Dmitry Medvedev will behave in this situation. It is in his power to remove Yuri Luzhkov. Such a “road test” is not easy. All the more interesting how the president behaves - this is not Twitter.

Finally, almost the most important thing we learned from the story with the overpass - the leaders are very concerned about the problems of air transportation. They constantly fly on airplanes and in this their interests coincide with the rest of the Russians. This is as a case with a carrier of the airliner in Perm (General Gennady Troshev, adviser to the president) or the terrorists of the Nevsky Express High -speed train (died, in particular, the head of Rosavtodor) Tarasov). The authorities reacted very sharply to these events, because from this "no one is safe." In this sense, passengers detained when traveling to Sheremetyevo are a symbol of the unity of the interests of the people and power, and much as less tragic.