The future limps forward

What we want:



What we get:



Never Waiting In Traffic Again

At a meeting in Munich in October, Mayor Yury Luzhkov gave Lipp the green light to test a system that would integrate buildings and roads. Roads for light vehicles would be built on top of commercial and residential buildings.

A raised road network would free up ground-level streets of 30 percent of traffic and cost at least $30 billion, Lipp said.

The project's viability rests on the results of a pilot: a 1.7-kilometer, four-lane highway atop a row of shopping complexes and residential buildings near Varshavskoye Shosse in southern Moscow.

'Cause those Soviet-constructed buildings are gonna hold that road RIGHT up. Strong and robust as Chernobyl, they are. No substandard materials and lowest-bidder contracts in Russia's construction history, no-sirree-Ivan.