[lbo-talk] Moscow chokes, drivers fume in mammoth traffic jams

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 28 07:19:49 PDT 2005


--- uvj at vsnl.com wrote: MOSCOW (Reuters) - Malkhaz Katamadze nudged his black Volga forward, stopped and sighed. He is one of the 3 million people who drive into Moscow every day and, like everyone else, he spends hours in traffic jams.

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It once took me three hours at 8 pm to travel the 15 km from Moscow to Lubertsy. Anyway the journalist continues:

"Moscow's sky is often all but invisible through the smog and the air along major roads sticks in the throats of pedestrians"

I have very rarely (almost never) seen smog in Moscow. I suspect the journalist was confused because two weeks ago there were huge peat-bog fires outside the city that created a smog-like effect.

Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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