Moscow traffic jams - rush hours round the clock

After I changed my job from a starting newspaper journalist to a marketing coordinator four years ago, I ended up sitting at the office all eight-hour work day long in front of corporate mailbox breaking up for team meetings and phone calls.

It was quite a surprise for me that there are huge traffic jams happening in the centre of Moscow at daytime. Ring roads I could have understood.

When I was heading back from the trade show back to the office at 1 pm. I chose this timing on purpose - to miss the traffic. Traffic jams wise it was quite a tricky route. The exhibition centre Crocus Expo is located at the outskirts of Moscow a few hundred meters from the Ring Road. And our office is twenty minutes walk from the Red Square.

Suprisingly for me, I got stuck at the middle of Kutuzovsky Prospect. It took me almost forty minutes to cross the New Arbat Street. Normally you can make it in 5 minutes.

I do not know who all these people are but the traffic jam at lunchtime was even worse than in usual rush hours: 7.30-10.00 am and 5.00-9.00 pm. No way! Will sit at the office...

And this is how it looked like today at 5.05 pm at the Bolshoy Kamenny Most (Bridge). The Kremlin is on the right hand side. A few meters away.