New Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has put forward three strategies for solving Moscow's notorious traffic problems.
"The Moscow mayor named three priority areas: increasing the number of parking places, developing public transport and road construction," Moscow's City Hall said on its web site.
The serious lack of parking places in Moscow means that car-owners are often forced to park on the edges and sidewalks of the already busy downtown roads, adding to the traffic chaos.
The mayor said fining drivers for incorrect parking would be ineffective unless the city authorities are able to provide alternative parking places.
A new 1,410-place car park is already being built next to the capital's Belorussky railway station, where the traffic problems are particularly bad, and is due to open in the near future, the press service said.
Sobyanin climbed onto the roof of a 14-storey building near the station on Wednesday morning to assess the traffic-clogged streets below.
In a speech prior to his inauguration, Sobyanin named solving the city's transport problems as one of the key issues on his agenda.
MOSCOW, October 28 (RIA Novosti)
