In Moscow, the cost of a taxi has doubled due to snowfall – Kommersant

The cost of long taxi trips (35-55 minutes) in the first half of the day due to snowfall increased from 700-900 rubles. up to 1400-1900 rubles, RIA Novosti reports. The duration of trips has increased by 10-15 minutes on average.

Moscow authorities previously recommended against traveling by car. Press service The Department of Transport warned that traffic jams of nine degrees would form in the city in the afternoon.

Leading specialist of the Phobos weather center Evgeny Tishkovets in his Telegram channel reported that in Moscow the height of snowdrifts on the morning of December 15 reached 49 cm, compared with the norm of 15 cm. According to him, the height of the snow cover broke the record in the entire history of observations – the previous maximum of 32 cm was recorded in 1919. Over the past 24 hours, 33% of the monthly precipitation fell.

“RIA News” they write that in Lyubertsy, near Moscow, a roof collapse occurred on an area of ​​2.4 thousand square meters at a building materials warehouse. m. Collapse of the roof of an industrial building on an area of ​​8 thousand square meters. m due to snow, according to the agency, it also happened in the Tula region.

In the Kursk region, all classes in schools were canceled due to heavy snowfall, regional governor Roman Starovoit said in his Telegram channel. In the Oryol region, children who were transported to school by school buses were transferred to distance learning due to bad weather.

The powerful cyclone “Vanya”, which came from the Balkans, brought The capital suffered the heaviest snowfall in 63 years. According to the forecast, snowfall will continue for about another day.

Petr Buzlaev