Transport Policy Defines the Quality of our Environment

Transport is not only the means to move people and goods. To a large degere, transport policy defines the environment in which we live.

Automobile transport causes most of our air pollution and occupies an enormous area of public land. Our air is poisoned. Streets are overrun with cars; sidewalks, lawns and yards are transformed into parking lots. Meanwhile, public transport is in a state of collapse and the city has no bicycle infrastructure at all.

Program of Ecological Transport

• Automobiles
  • Comprehensive system of zoned parking on public land.
  • Ban on parking in yards and on the sidewalk.
  • Construction of accessible multi-story and underground garages.
  • Use of tow truck against cars which repeatedly violate parking rules.
  • Gradual increase in the gas tax to the level at which it provides 100% of road construction funds.
  • Ban on car alarms.
• Bicycles
  • Construction of a network of bike paths (requires a solution to the problem of parking on public land).
  • Establish bike parking at all Metro stations, theatres, large stores, etc.
  • Specially reserved places for transporting bikes on mass transit, especially suburban trains.
• Pedestrians
  • Creation of a network of pedestrian zones in the center of the city.
  • Ban on car parking on the sidewalk.
• Public Transport
  • Use of the income from paid parking to finance a renaissance in public transport.
  • Creation of separate lanes for buses and trolleybuses on streets where traffic jams delay public transport.
  • Preservation of the tram heritage and designs for new tram-pedestrian streets.
  • Construction of a new generation of public transport, such as elevated express.
• Metro
  • Liquidation of the gap between the Lesnaya and Ploshad Muzhecsto stations.
  • Expansion of the metro.
  • Extension of the opening time of the metro until at least 1AM.