OREANDA-NEWS. On 01 September 2008 was announced, that an above-ground parking garage for 50 vehicles is to be constructed at Yaroslavskoe Highway, northeast Moscow, in 2009.

“The construction is stipulated by the urban target program aimed at building parking garages in Moscow during 2008-2010. The capital development of an above-ground parking garage for 50 vehicles is to be carried out on the 0.2ha area,” a source from City Hall said.

According to the source, the area is currently free of development. A tender for selecting a tenant of the area set for development will be held in 2008.

As predicted by the city authorities, a number of private vehicles in Moscow will go up to 2.88 million by 2010. It is intended to provide Muscovites with parking lots for 60 per cent by that time. Around 50 per cent of the car owners are currently provided with parking lots in Moscow. According to the data provided by the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate under Moscow’s Main Department of Internal Affairs, 2.641 million of private vehicles were registered in the city by the end of 2007.

Vladimir Resin, first deputy Moscow City Mayor, informed earlier that 125,000 new parking lots had been commissioned in 2008. According to the development master plan for Moscow, this index is to reach 70 per cent by 2020. So, the car parks for 1.7 million vehicles are to be constructed.