How and why Petersburg is in traffic jams all day

In St. Petersburg - transport collapse. Traffic jams of 9-10 points were fixed from the beginning of snowfalls, but on December 27 and 28 the situation exacerbated the visit of Vladimir Putin and the leaders of other states. On the day of the summit of the heads of the CIS countries in the city, segments of tracks, bridges and entire streets were blocked.

"Paper" shows how drivers in despair are trying to get through restrictions and ceilings, about which the authorities did not warn anyone.

They began to block the roads in the morning of Tuesday - by half the tenth on the roads there were 5 points, and a traffic jam from buses formed on the street of Decembrov.

This time, citizens warned some restrictions. The day before, the transport committee posted a scheme for changing public transport in the city center, and also reported the restriction of traffic on Potemkinskaya Street in front of Leningrad Center.

The committee explained to the “paper” that they were not introduced by restrictions, but law enforcement agencies. In the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region they did not answer the questions of the “paper” .

However, the restrictions were not only on the streets from the Comterans list. For example, in the morning they stopped traffic on Pravda Street. Messages about other ceilings came throughout the day.

Potemkinskaya and Horse Guards blocked for a reason. The Horse Guard Boulevard is located next to the Yeltsin presidential library, where the main part of the informal summit of the heads of the CIS countries took place. And Potemkinskaya Street lies in front of Leningrad Center, where in the evening the heads of state went to dinner.

So in the evening the situation on Yandex.Martes looked next to the locations where the meetings of the leaders of the countries were held.

On Konnogvardeisky Boulevard, a participant in the Club of Friends of the Papers photographed a large accumulation of reanimobiles. The healthcare committee did not answer the question of “paper” , which is related to the appearance of cars.

One of the paramedics working in the Krasnogvardeisky district anonymously told Paper that the work of ambulance brigades is very difficult: drivers are trying to skip them, but in some cases there are simply nowhere to go to the cars. “The city is complete horror,” the interlocutor of Papers states. A source of Paper in the Mariinsky hospital says that because of the snowy collapse and cleaning with the routing of the imminent, problems have had problems for two weeks, so "neither in the better nor in the worst side of the visit of Alexander Lukashenko and the first person [Russia] did not change the situation."

At the same time, traffic jams were formed on the ZSD and Kad - there they also blocked the movement.

The Palace bridge and the Sinop embankment were also blocked - according to eyewitnesses, for 1.5 and 3 hours, respectively.

In the evening, the ceilings in the center of St. Petersburg continued. According to eyewitnesses, the movement was limited on Gorokhovaya Street, Malaya and Bolshaya Morskaya Streets, and the embankment of the Moika River.

The interchanges of the ZSD and the central highways of St. Petersburg on the Yandex.Marts are painted in a dark red color in the evening. Drivers leave a lot of perplexing comments, while there is almost no way to find messages with the mention of Putin in the service.

They complain about the transport situation on Twitter.

At 18 o’clock Voznesensky Prospekt and the adjacent streets were blocked, the correspondent of Paper noted. “The buses even stopped, people just come out and walk,” our journalist reports.

Judging by Yandex.Cart, ground public transport in the center of St. Petersburg completely froze: dense clusters of buses and trolleybuses are visible on the roads. Attention was paid to the participant of the club of “Paper” friends Masha.

In traffic jams there are even carriages drawn by horses.

And Putin will remain in St. Petersburg for at least one day. On December 29, he has planned a meeting with Alexander Lukashenko. There is a chance that they will play hockey.

What else to read:

• The day before, we told how, by the arrival of Putin the street in the center (suddenly), we were well removed from the snow, and maximum traffic jams formed on the roads.
• Why do you have to stand in traffic jams when Putin comes to St. Petersburg, and is it legal to block roads for officials? Read our answers .