Parked to the bottom

The Moscow Transport Department expanded the paid parking area. A list of 290 sites is published on the department’s website, on which from December 26 a parking fee will be introduced. It will be 40 rubles per hour.

“Paid places will appear near the places of the greatest attraction of cars: at trading and business centers, metro stations, railway stations,” the press release of the transport department says. “After the introduction of paid parking in new territories, the residents of the districts will receive advantages - preferential conditions are provided for them. At the same time, the number of cars from other areas will decrease, and the medium time will decrease by the average time Parking in one parking place will not exceed an hour and a half.

According to authorities, these measures will allow you to unload the city road network by 15%, and the travel time in ground public transport will decrease by 20%.

Parking fee in Moscow has been charged since 2012.

On December 15, a citywide rally will be held on Pushkinskaya Square against the expansion of the paid parking area . The decisions of the Moscow authorities in this area "violate the constitutional rights of citizens and provoke the growth of social tension," the initiative group said.

Rallies against the expansion of paid parking have been held in the capital since the beginning of October under the slogan "No - an auto -agencide, paid parking, lawlessness of tow trucks! Yes - order on the roads, the development of transport infrastructure." The most massive rally took place in Chertanov on October 27 - up to two thousand people came to it (