Moscow Faces Parking Crunch
16 October 2002 - 6:00am
In the past 10 years, the city's cars tripled in number from 800,000 to 2.2 million.
"City Hall estimates the capital has 787,000 parking spaces -- including multistory garages, surface lots and rakushki, or the metal boxes that line most courtyards -- which means for every one car parked in a designated parking space, two cars are not."
Full Story:
Creative Parking Stunts Development of Garages
Source:
Moscow Times, October 10, 2005
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