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Originally posted by: Duke87 Ah, yes, Moscow. The real problem with its transportation network is that it was largely designed under a communist regime, where traveling any significant distance required paperwork and not too many people owned cars... then the Soviet Union fell, those restrictions vanished, and all of a sudden the infrastructure was insufficient. The real killer is that Moscow is also home to the world's most crowded subway system, so even encouraging people to leave their cars and use mass transit helps nothing. New capital construction has to happen.quote> Well, in fact, the problem's much deeper. Unlike many other large cities, Moscow has the different road system. The main streets don't cross each other at a right angle. The system is radial-circular and many parts of the city are connected to the center by just one wide avenue. Moreover, people living in suburbs and moving into the city every morning use the same avenues what makes the situation even worse. However, this problem wasn't invented in the USSR. Moscow is a very old city (more than 8 centuries is its age) and its transportation structure was formed much earlier. Unfortunately, the conungs and tsars didn't know that their city would have to become a home for 3 million cars!