The Moscow government came up with the idea of building intercepting parking lots back in 2005. Then it was announced at a meeting in the framework of the fight against traffic congestion on the roads of the capital. According to the plan of the designers, it was necessary to build about 170 parking lots. However, even by 2012, this project was not fully implemented.
After some consultation, the authorities decided to stop at 23 sites that will serve as interceptors. Until 2008, they were able to build only one of the planned parking lots. After that, 7 more were designed: in Teply Stan, next to the Yasenevo, Domodedovskaya, Vodny Stadium, Botanical Garden, Polezhaevskaya and Pechatniki metro stations.
The essence of the work of intercepting parking lots, as conceived by the ideologists of this project, is quite simple. The cars of local residents will be parked here all night. In the morning, until a certain hour, they have to pick them up, leaving for work. And these places during the day remain for the arriving residents of the Moscow region. They leave their vehicles here, paying 50 rubles per day for this parking (originally it was planned to set the cost at 10 rubles per hour), after which they get to work in Moscow by metro. In the evening, this circuit should work in the opposite direction. The project developers offered a kind of bonus - those who leave their car in a temporary parking lot should be given a 50% discount on metro fares. However, at the moment it does not work. The maximum that the city authorities can offer today is a discount on parking fees if you have a metro ticket for 2 trips used that day.
In fact, this project does not work at all. First, no one wants to stick to a schedule. Indeed, for the normal functioning of this system, it is necessary that those who leave the cars overnight clean them on time. Muscovites, on the other hand, do not want to make concessions, and quite often their cars sit in an intercepting parking lot for weeks.
Secondly, not all residents of the region want to leave their personal transport in order to change to the metro and unload Moscow roads. Moreover, you also have to lose money, additionally paying for travel in the Moscow subway and a simple car in the parking lot.
Another problem associated with the creation of parking lots is that investors are reluctant to take on projects of this kind. After all, the payback period for such a parking lot is about 8-10 years. And it is too expensive to build intercepting parking only at the expense of the city budget, even for a city like Moscow.
