Passions Leningradki

The scandal surrounding the overpass repairs on the Leningrad Highway is gaining momentum. CEO of the airport "Sheremetyevo" Mikhail Vasilenko openly accuses mayor Yuri Luzhkov is that he thus has the patronage of "Vnukovo", owned by the Moscow government. Giant tube Meeting on 26 June, when the 24-kilometer highway of Leningrad began repair work on an overpass October Railway. Were blocked by the exit of the inner and outer sides of Moscow ring road at the Leningrad highway in the direction of the area, exit at Leningradki toward the region with a circular motion at the intersection of the highway and Mashkinskogo Novoshodnenskogo highway, with the International road to Leningrad to Moscow allowed only public transportation. In reality, an overpass of the six lanes are only two left - one in each direction, and banned the movement of trucks. Moscow traffic police district offered to go round a difficult place for the Dmitrov highway and New Riga. Just bypass roads pass through Kurkino and Starbeevo. However, these backup options can not cope with the influx of cars. Traffic on the Leningrad highway do not stop even at night and daytime. The length of the congestion during peak hours reaches more than 10 kilometers, and the average speed in them varies from 2 to 7 km / h. Repairs to the main road leading to the airport "Sheremetyevo", will last until October 1, 2010. Responsibility for the repairmen are the city authorities, which is not too preoccupied with timely warning people about the upcoming restrictions. Head of the Department of Housing and Public Works of Moscow Andrey Tsybin said that this plot line emergency. He noted that the decision to start work was known to 15 March 2010, when city officials signed a corresponding decree. Local residents and passengers fit depressed - have already become familiar jams on the Leningrad highway increased by several times! Most people have no opportunity to overtake them in any other way: Trains rarely go, and on public transport to the nearest subway at rush hour, at best, can be reached within two hours. Many local residents are seriously thinking about bicycles and mopeds. Someone even decided to walk along the highway, but these brave complain suffocating heat and fumes. The schedule of public transport, the commencement of repair had no impact - buses and trains go to the previous regime. Airlines ask passengers to refrain from trips to the airport by car. Catch a plane now, you can only use aeroexpress. Taxi drivers in Sheremetyevo quickly adapted to the environment - they block Leningradki only on the hand. On Wednesday, June 30, the carrier 9-seater minivan asked for 300 rubles per person for ensuring that dovezti passengers to the subway for 45 minutes. Moreover, a promise he fulfilled his. Taxi drivers are quickly passing on country roads, which they have long been explored. However, there is a suspicion that the motorists will soon find these "goat trails". Traffic jams on the way to the airport "Sheremetyevo" is interested in Vladimir Putin. He instructed the Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov to address this issue. "Please, work with the Moscow authorities, together take the necessary actions to improve the situation" - said the prime minister. Genprokutarura also organized a test of this incident. Prosecutors will evaluate the actions or omissions of state supervision in the field of road activities and officials of the executive authority of Moscow. Will verify compliance with the legislation on road safety and traffic operations. Perhaps the reason for the interest of the Prime Minister has become the Internet address CEO Sheremetyevo Michael Vasilenkova, in which he accuses Yuri Luzhkov in unfair competition. Vasilenkov reported that the airport has become impossible to get to such a collapse, he was absolutely not ready. "On Saturday, late in the evening, leaving from work and trying to leave the airport, even on a motorcycle I could not squeeze through the tube, formed on the bridge" - Michael complains in his blog. Mikhail Vasilenko noted that his company did was not agreed. And this is a flagrant violation of resolutions of the Government of Moscow, according to which the Department of Housing and Public Works was required to do so. "Order of the Moscow government about these repair work has appeared March 11, 2010. The order was sent through the existing regulations on coordination of the traffic police, the Government of MO. From there, with many of his remarks was returned for revision. And today, without any approvals sudden onset of severe restriction of movement on Leningradka - writes director general of Sheremetyevo. Mikhail Vasilenko explains this situation by the fact that the airport "Vnukovo", owned by the Government of Moscow, from day to day will start a new terminal. And the sudden onset of repairs on the highway leading to the "Sheremetyevo", is nothing but an attempt to create problems for the competitors. He appealed to the FAS to consider the issue of discriminatory access to part of the Moscow Aviation Hub. In response, the Head of FAS Andrey Golomolzin said that it is inadequate in the event of a normal economy, and the guilty must be punished. Will be tested, whether related to the ill-fated renovation with the opening of a new terminal at Vnukovo. Association of Tour Operators of Russia also intends to seek an open letter to the Moscow government. According to executive director of the Association of Maya Lomidze, unless things change, the flights will move to other airports. Airlines are suffering huge losses due to traffic jams on the Leningrad highway. Just for one day due to traffic congestion, Aeroflot has lost 700,000 euros. In the meantime, the Ministry of Transport is taking languid attempts to redirect traffic flows along the routes of diversion, people idling in long hours of traffic jams. The traffic police can only throw up your hands in angry comments of drivers and a thousand times repeated detour routes. I want to believe that if people had undertaken business Prosecutor General, and Vladimir Putin took note of this issue, that is a faint hope that the collapse will disappear before the scheduled time. Text: Olga Zabelkina.