.Moscow may learn from Seoul experience in traffic organization -

SEOUL, February 25 (Itar-Tass) - The Moscow city government sees South
Korea's Seoul as the best partner to exchange experience in the sphere of
transport, a deputy mayor of Moscow said on Friday.
The Moscow government has been studying world experiences in this
sphere for a long time and has come to the conclusion that it is Seoul
that resembles Moscow in terms of the transport situation, the area, and
the number of residents, Nikolay Lyamov, who addresses transport and road
construction issues in the Moscow government, told journalists. Lyamov is
a member of a visiting delegation of the Moscow city government led by
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
According to Lyamov, over the two-day stay in the South Korean capital
members of the delegation had a chance to see that Soul's transport
program elaborated in 2005 is being implemented quite efficiently.
"In Moscow, we are about to begin urgent steps and, as a matter of
fact, the work we plan for 2011-2012 and for the next five years is very
much the same as that being done here," he said. "We had a chance to see
for ourselves that our program will be viable, that the way we have
chosen, including a smart traffic regulation, and separate traffic lanes
for municipal transport, is quite acceptable for our city."
In his words, the delegation is tasked to study Soul's experience, to
learn by its mistakes in order not to make such in Moscow.
He praised the TOPIS passenger transport regulation centre the
delegation had visited in Seoul. In this connection he said a similar
centre will be set up in Moscow. "Now we are preparing to hold a tender to
create a similar system," he said.
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