A turning point

In the middle of winter in Moscow, it was sharply warming and a delopad began on the streets

Soldier stands - cleaning is coming, Moscow, Red Square , February 2, 2016

It is better to walk in ice, standing on the spot , Moscow, January 29, 2016

Wipers go on duty, Moscow, January 29, 2016

All December, Muscovites were waiting for snow and waited in the new year, Moscow, February 2, 2016

"On Labutenes" , Moscow, January 29, 2016

The pedestrians were funny seed, theatrically bounced, carefully sneaked, but still rushed and fell. Someone was lucky to get rid of a spoiled mood and dirty clothes, but many had to heal bruises, abrasions, and often fractures.

The head of the capital's department of health, Alexei Khripun, told reporters that this winter, compared with the last number of injuries received from ice, in Moscow was reduced by 25%. According to him, the peak of olienta came on January 29, when 200 people turned to the ambulance service. Having decided to make sure that Alexei Khripun did not confuse anything, NT made a request to the department. The press service of the department confirmed us an improvement in statistics and reported that for the period from November 1, 2015 to February 5, 2016, 1071 people received injuries. Whereas all over the winter, 1906 people were injured in the winter.

Cordobelet on ice

According to the general opinion of users of social networks, the most dangerous for movement was the sidewalks laid out with tiles, which the city authorities are so proud of. The difference between the innovation and traditional asphalt was so noticeable that often people walked along the roadway, only so as not to step on the insidious surface.

Not sparing the reagent, Moscow, February 2, 2016

In response to the accusations that the tile is much more traumatic than asphalt, representatives of the authorities explained that everything simply seemed to people. Immediately there were experts who supported this position. Associate Professor Madi Yuri Vasiliev said that "today, paving slabs and sand asphalt concrete mixture have equal parameters along the texture of the surface layer and, accordingly, the same effect on ice formation."

And the deputy mayor of Moscow on housing and communal services and improvement, Pyotr Biryukov, said that 88% of those who applied for medical help reported that they slipped on the asphalt, and only the remaining 12% fell on the tile. “Rains go. Moisture falls to the coating (soil or asphalt, wooden, tile), and with a decrease in air temperature in the evening or night hours due to changes in the weather, the surface is frozen, ”the rules of the water cycle in the nature of the turquoils recalled.

The sidewalks were covered with porridge of ice and snow, Moscow, January 29, 2016

However, not everyone agreed with the arguments of those in power. Thus, the chairman of the Interregional Public Movement “The Union of Pedestrians” Vladimir Sokolov expressed the opinion that the tiles and asphalt in some weather conditions behave completely differently: “They have the heat capacity and thermal conductivity significantly: with an increase in temperature, the tiles, freezing in cold weather, for a long time holding the cold, which causes rain drops in a thin layer, forming it very slippery crust. In addition, the asphalt, due to much larger than that of tiles, porosity, is better delayed by the anti -band reagent, sand and stone crumbs, while the first drops of rain are washed off from the tiles. Before laying so many sidewalks of the city with tiles, specialists had to take into account these points. ”

How they were taken into account, for example, in Norway. In the city services, Oslo NT explained that the tile coating is used mainly on heated sidewalks and put it on a sand pillow, leaving gaps in the seams between individual tiles so that moisture can drain. “Tiles for the Norwegian are a harsh Mediterranean exotic,” journalist Dmitry Vorobyov, who is permanently living in Norway, explains. “It happens, of course, that the Norwegian can be carried away by exotic so that it lays a piece of land with a tile near his house, and then grabs behind the head - in winter this piece turns into a skating rink.”

Officials will have to answer

Members of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation have already addressed the mayor Sergei Sobyanin for clarification. Among other things, they were interested in: was it carried out at the conclusion of contracts for the supply of paving slabs, its testing for compliance with climatic conditions, including resistance to icing? And what measures of disciplinary and financial liability will be applied to the guilty of creating a situation that threatens the health and life of pedestrians in the city of Moscow in connection with icing of road surfaces?

In such weather, no shoes help, Moscow, January 29, 2016

“We would like to receive reasoned, detailed and intelligible answers to our request from the Moscow government,” said Artem Kiryanov, the first deputy chairman of the Commission of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation on the development of social infrastructure, local self -government and housing and communal services. - We propose to conduct examinations of the road surface, the regulations for cleaning the streets and other sides of this problem, as well as think of measures to avoid such situations in subsequent years. As a lawyer, I can say: all citizens who have received injuries when falling on ice, may, without waiting for any examinations, apply to the court and demand from the company that serves the dangerous territory, compensation for damage. ”

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Monuments and officials on cars are not afraid to slip, Moscow, February 1, 2016

Daria Khlyakina participated in the preparation of the material

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