Curing traffic jams and parking solutions from around the world

The Moscow city government is reconsidering a parking bill. It would prohibit millions of Moscow drivers from practicing their chaotic parking habits and the use of metal storage sheds. Most of Moscow’s drivers wonder where they can park their cars, where they can find covered parking, how to abolish traffic jams and why the streets of Los-Angeles seem traffic free as in the photo. You can find the answers in the photos by RIA Novosti.  

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© Viktor Melnik

The Moscow city government is reconsidering a parking bill. It would prohibit millions of Moscow drivers from practicing their chaotic parking habits and the use of metal storage sheds. Most of Moscow’s drivers wonder where they can park their cars, where they can find covered parking, how to abolish traffic jams and why the streets of Los-Angeles seem traffic free as in the photo. You can find the answers in the photos by RIA Novosti.

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© Victor Melnik

Parking is limited to even- or odd- number license-plated cars on some streets in San Francisco.

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© Vanderlei Almeida

Days Without Cars is one approach in Rio de Janeiro. The streets are less busy and some parking lots fill up with cones rather than cars.

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© Flickr / daquellamanera

…and in New York stacking parking racks help save space.

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© RIA Novosti . Sergey Pyatakov

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Russia has only one multistory automated parking lot. It is in the Ostankino Television and Technical Center, Moscow.