OREANDA-NEWS. On 20 August 2008 was announced, that the city authorities are to construct an alternative road of Leninsky Avenue.

“An alternate is to be built from Shestidesyatiletiya Oktyabrya Avenue to Ostrovityanova Street. Ostrovityanova Street will also be widened due to the planned construction of the alternate,” Leonid Lipsits, head of Department of Transport and Communication of Moscow, said at a session of City Hall on August 19.

According to the official, the city authorities also plan to reconstruct Akademika Bakuleva Street that is to have an exit road to Leninsky Avenue.

“All these reconstruction and construction works will enable to make Profsoyuznaya Street, Varshavskoe Highway and Leninsky Avenue less busy,” Mr Lipsits noted.