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The Moscow authorities ask the traffic police to narrow the parking spaces for 25 cm - they need more space for pedestrians and cyclists
Department of Transport of the Capital
sent a letter to the traffic police with a proposal to change the parking
GOSTs, informs the official portal of the Moscow City Hall on Monday.
The department proposes to reduce the dimensions of the car, narrowing them by 25
see it is planned to reduce the dimensions of parking lots for historically established
urban development, reports Interfax .
The Department of Transport said that according to GOSTs
A car for a car must be at least 2.5 m in
width. Its narrowing up to 2.25 m on the central streets, including inside
Garden Ring, will allow you to increase the number at some points
Parking, in others - expand the sidewalk or organize a bicycle path.
According to the city hall, in 2014, Rosstandart approved GOST, by
to which local authorities have the right to reduce the length of the parking space with
7.5 to 6.5 m. We are talking about parallel parking along the roadway.
At the same time, the width remains the same - 2.5 m. The dimensions of the parking lot when parking "Christmas tree" in Moscow did not change: five meters in length with a width of 2.5 meters.