welcome back the spotlight i'm now going up in just to remind you that my guest on the show today is blair rubel director of cannon institute for advanced studies that we talk about the problems of moscow the capital city of russia one of the greatest problems is driving on the traffic jams we will get he mentioned that well the only alternative that anyone would mention for for for for the jams and from crazy number of automobiles is public transportation but you said russians love the duchesse russians also love their cars. their cars that's absolutely right will we will we be able to to put russians back into the buses well if i said earlier the government can't tell people where to live maybe if maybe the government can tell people how to get to work no i don't think there's any simple answer to this part because of the way just moscow's built in circles it promotes congestion but i think what's important is you already have a pretty certainly the subway system is one of the best in the world you need to have a public transport alternative you can have people work at home you can change work

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