Moscow City Hall employees will have to arrive at work one hour earlier on Monday- at 8 a.m. The change is one of new mayor Sergei Sobyanin's drive to fight the Russian capital's notorious traffic jams.
A source in the city administration on Friday told RIA Novosti that all state organizations in Moscow will work from 8 a.m. from Monday, but the City Hall said the date when the new rules will be introduced has not been set.
Sobyanin replaced long-serving Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov, fired in late September by President Dmitry Medvedev, over "loss of confidence."
In a speech prior to his inauguration, Sobyanin identified solving the city's transport problems as a key issue on his agenda. In his first week on the mayor's post, he pledged to take "extraordinary measures" to eliminate traffic jams. Medvedev has said he would personally oversee the effort.
The chronic lack of parking places in Moscow means drivers are often forced to park on the edges and sidewalks of the already busy downtown roads, adding to the traffic chaos.
MOSCOW, November 1 (RIA Novosti)
