OREANDA-NEWS. On 17 July 2008 was announced, that the city authorities of Moscow are to go on with widening Yaroslavskoe Highway in the direction of Korolyov, the neighbouring town of Moscow.

“Yaroslavskoe Highway is started to be widened beyond the MKAD at last. The large-scale work is going on there in the direction of Korolyov. The highway has been widened greatly once already. We will proceed with it,” Moscow City Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said at a live program on TV Tsentr television on July 15.

According to the official, it is also planned to widen the road at Sheremetyevskaya Street from the Ostankino TV Tower to Suvorovskaya Square for improving the traffic situation.

“In the end, we will solve the problem with the local roads. It won’t be the radical solution to the problem but we will get some relief,” Mr Luzhkov noted.