In defense of the avenue

Moscow authorities are planning to expand Leninsky Prospekt. Discussions are being held on this matter with the participation of residents. Residents have the opportunity to express their wishes, but how and whether they will be taken into account is unknown. It is reported that there are already several thousand written comments from residents against the project that the authorities are imposing. There are no official results of the hearings yet, but, according to proactive citizens, there is much evidence of the organizers’ intention to falsify the results.

On April 24 at 14.00 at the Independent Press Center there will be a press conference of the new movement “In Defense of Leninsky Prospect”, uniting initiative groups and public organizations of six Moscow districts that will be affected by the planned expansion. The press conference will be held with the support of the Yabloko party.

Experts will talk about violations in the process of preparing and submitting the project to public hearings. They will talk about world experience and what experts can offer to solve Moscow’s transport problems.

The press conference will be attended by municipal deputies of the districts along Leninsky Prospekt Elena Rusakova, Vladimir Garnachuk, Dmitry Martynenko, Sergei Dorofeev, Vladimir Zhilin, representatives of initiative groups of residents and the new movement, Yabloko leader Sergei Mitrokhin, party member, ecologist, corresponding member Russian Academy of Sciences Alexey Yablokov, chief project architect of the CONTENT company Oksana Omelyanenko, representatives of the Institute of Transport Economics and Transport Policy of the Higher School of Economics.