The authorities have allowed the introduction of toll transportation on the FFM for Muscovites

The authorities may consider the option of introducing a toll for Muscovites along the Moscow High-Speed Diameter (MSD), different options are possible on this issue. This was announced on December 16 by Maxim Liksutov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport and Industry.

"On the FFM the load is growing, and now there is a choice: either it will turn into an overloaded highway with congestion, or there will be an opportunity for some money to drive along it in a more or less predictable time," he said in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper.

Liksutov added that there are problems that need to be solved and that cannot be avoided.

The FFM connects the north, east and south of Moscow bypassing the center. Travel along it for cars with Moscow and Moscow Region license plates is free of charge.

On December 9, Konstantin Trofimenko, director of the Center for Smart City Research at the Higher School of Economics, noted that the Moscow High-Speed Diameter unloaded the Moscow Ring Road by 12-15%, and the TTC - by 9-12%. According to Trofimenko, the Moscow High-Speed Diameter is now more popular than the Garden Ring and is second only to the Moscow Ring Road and the TTC. About 400 thousand cars pass through the diameter per day.