Moscow gridlocked by kilometer-long traffic jams due to road closures
The city is bound by kilometer-long traffic jams due to closures.
On Thursday afternoon, January 22, Moscow was bound by traffic jams. Movement in the city center is difficult, and drivers are complaining about kilometer-long congestion, due to which they have to stand for about an hour.
Congestion stretched for several kilometers.
The Moscow Department of Transport warned that there could be local traffic restrictions in the center. Due to temporary closures, traffic was difficult on Kremlin Embankment, Borovitskaya Square, and Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge.
Situation on Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge.
We show what is happening now in the city center.
«We»re standing well,« ironizes a driver who got stuck on Kremlin Embankment.
Drivers who are now near the Borovitskaya, Alexandrovsky Sad, and Biblioteka Imeni Lenina metro stations do not understand why they cannot pass.
Police cars are standing everywhere.
«Tell me, please, how is the traffic?» asks a driver.
On Mokhovaya Street, a motorcade of the Palestinian leader«s delegation was spotted. Today Vladimir Putin met with Mahmoud Abbas and discussed settlement in the Middle East.
While there are traffic jams in the center, snow is being cleared there.
A traffic jam also formed on Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge near the Kremlin. According to Yandex.Maps, the congestion stretched for almost a kilometer. Nearby, several security patrols are standing.
«They closed it again,» complained a driver.
Buses are also stuck in traffic jams, which cannot pass due to closures.
But, despite the closures and traffic jams, snow still needs to be cleared by someone, so simultaneously in the center, utility workers are operating, occupying lanes with KamAZ trucks.
As reported in the Kremlin pool, this evening Vladimir Putin will meet with U.S. Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff. The conversation will begin after 7 p.m. and promises to be long.
That Whitcoff will arrive in Moscow became known the day before. According to the special envoy«s statement, negotiations on settling the conflict in Ukraine are in the final stage. Everything known about the upcoming meeting, we told in a separate article.
