Huge Traffic Jam Persists on Moscow-St. Pete Highway
News story from RIA Novosti last week that I only heard about now:
A gigantic traffic jam on the snowbound main highway linking Moscow and St. Petersburg that began on Friday was still 34 miles long early in the evening on Sunday, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry’s State Automobile Inspectorate said.
Highway M-10 was hit with three feet of snow late last week causing massive jams in both directions.
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“Travel remains stop-and-go for a stretch of between 135 and 190 kilometers (84-118 miles) on M-10 in Tver Region. One lane in each direction is clear of snow. Trucks are moving at roughly 5-10 kilometers per hour (3-6 mph),” the spokesman said, implying that trucks face a travel time of at least 13.5 hours to pass through the jam.
Thirteen and a half hours. Simply absurd.