Moscow residents have sent a few thousand questions to Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, some of which he will answer live during the new Our City program on the state-run TV Center channel on Wednesday, Sobyanin's spokeswoman Gulnara Penkova said.
Muscovites sent questions for the city chief starting from December 14 via the RIA Novosti and TV Center websites, as well as through Facebook. The questions mainly deal with municipal services and transport problems.
"In their addresses to the mayor, the Russian capital's residents also give advice on how to solve the city's urgent issues: improve traffic organization, clean the urban area and create additional parking lots," Penkova said.
Sobyanin has pledged to solve the Russian capital's transport problems. When appointed, he said he would take "extraordinary measures" to eliminate traffic jams. President Dmitry Medvedev has said he will personally oversee the effort.
The new mayor replaced long-serving Yury Luzhkov, fired in late September by Medvedev over a "loss of confidence." Luzhkov had in particular been criticized for his inability to cope with Moscow's notorious traffic jams.
Sobyanin recently said some 8 billion rubles ($266 million) will be allocated from the city budget in 2011 to build more parking lots and garages.
Luzhkov also had his own show, Facing the City, on the TV Center channel.
MOSCOW, December 22 (RIA Novosti)
