Muscovites Urged to Work Where They Live
Yesterday, the Moscow government summed up the 2007 results and set the tasks for next year. Mayor Yuri Luzhkov gave the satisfactory mark to subordinates, criticizing them for the road construction rates. Luzhkov’s recommendation was to focus exactly on building the roads, rebuilding the houses and constructing the so-called technological parks. The latter will enable the Muscovites to work where they live, the mayor specified.
It was Marina Ogloblina, chief of the economic policy department at the Moscow City Hall, that reported the results yesterday. According to Ogloblina, the gross regional product grew 7.7 percent in 2007 and the average salary increased 28 percent. Some 4.8 million square meters of housing, including 2.2 million square meters for those who queue for the social flats, were constructed in 2007.
“The results are normal. But some problems also existed, in construction, for instance,” Luzhkov said, evaluating the work of the city’s cabinet as generally satisfactory.
The mayor was mostly displeased with the road construction, as the road jams are a real problem for the city. In an effort to sort out this difficulty, Luzhkov committed his deputy Vladimir Resin, who is also the chief of the Moscow construction complex, to personally supervise road building.
Amid other tasks that the City Hall will have to tackle next year is development of so-called technological parks, i.e. the grand office centers, which are to emerge in each district of the city. “We have built Kozhukhovo, for example, and now we are delivering thousands of people to downtown for work, loading roads and transport. But we should provide employment at place of residence,” the mayor explained, offering another solution for the road deadlock.
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