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I am tired of an arbitrariness on the Russian roads

Every day I since morning drive for work by the machine. I work in the West of Moscow, area Kuntsevo.
Near to this area there live known politics, people from the government and Putin.
I should go on Kutuzovskii prospekt to reach my office. And every morning the traffic police blocks a wide highway on half an hour (it happens in both sides) that officials and president Putin too have reached in time for work. They should go on a counter strip, aside the Kremlin, but road block in both sides on half an hour.
What for?

But once at me the awful case in general was. I went on a line on an extreme right strip. I look in a mirror of a back kind - black BMW and Audi with signals and dark blue flashing behind go. I let pass, I move down more to the left. But I have not had time to execute maneuver as has seen a Mercedes ramming me sideways. I have had time to shirk. I have told to friends about this case. They knew about such things. Appeared, that it was the protection, trying to save the chief from possible attacks. But I even did not think it to do.

MrSpice · Lounge Wizard Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 3436

I wish I could say that in America the roads are wonderful. They are but not everywhere. For example, New York City is certainly not driver-friendly. The roads here are congested, random repairs are happening all the time, and the traffic/parking fines are out of control. But when you get out of the city, the highways are pretty nice, though.