Prolonged frosts in the Irkutsk region opened up and aggravated a huge number of problems. Far from the last place in the anti-rating of municipalities that could not cope with abnormal frosts was taken by the regional capital. Irkutsk was distinguished by fires, major accidents, and snow-covered roads.
For Irkutsk, perhaps, the symbol of the past frosts was a terrible accident on Kayskaya Mountain, where over twenty cars collided at the same time. This is not surprising: daily traffic on Mayakovsky Street turns into a test of the strength and patience of all motorists in the Sverdlovsk district. Standing there in a traffic jam, pressed closely against the “neighboring” car, is a daily tradition for residents who have no other short detour routes. A small collision under such conditions immediately causes a domino effect.
Mayakovsky Street is an old purulent wound on the body of the city. Legends about the hour-long traffic jams that traditionally stand on Mayakovsky in the morning and evening on weekdays and weekends have become real folklore. This path is the only short way to get from Markov, Shelekhov and the Sinyushina Gora microdistrict to the city center. And most public transport routes running in the Sverdlovsk district pass through Mayakovsky.
Undoubtedly, there are no less traffic jams on Lenin, Chkalov, Baikalskaya, Starokuzmikhinsky tract and Lermontov street. What is there! In the morning and evening, most of Irkutsk turns into a huge red lantern with a sign saying “traffic jams 9 points”.
The vaunted Southern Bypass, promised for construction and conceived to relieve tension from the same Mayakovsky Street, was never implemented. The city administration, headed by the mayor, is also silent Ruslan Bolotov and State Duma deputy Sergey Tenwhose company was supposed to do the design and construction, but never started work on the Southern Bypass.
The annual pothole repair, which the mayor’s office likes to report on, traditionally “lives” for one calendar year and disappears with the snow in the spring, revealing more and more wounds on the asphalt surface. Snow and ice covering sidewalks and roadways have long become a daily reality for residents of all areas of the city.
The bottom line is that the residents of Irkutsk can only exercise their wits, once again stuck in a traffic jam for many hours in one (read: almost any) direction of Irkutsk.
But it seems to us that this picture is not at all cheerful.
