Published on: 2026-09-02
Source: Moscow Government – Правительство Москвы –
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Since the beginning of the year, the Traffic Management Center (TMC) has installed and upgraded traffic lights at 169 locations, said the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport and Industry. Maxim Liksutov.
“Since the beginning of the year, specialists from the Traffic Management Center have installed new traffic lights at 21 locations and modernized existing ones at 148 addresses in almost all districts of Moscow. First of all, attention was paid to spots where accidents were recorded, as well as areas near schools, hospitals, bus stops, and other places attracting residents. In addition, specialists took into account citizens’ appeals. We continue to improve road safety following Sergey Sobyanin’s directive as part of the transport development strategy until 2030,” said Maksim Liksutov.
New traffic lights have been installed at six locations near schools, six near bus stops, four near parks and post offices, two near medical facilities, two at sites where road traffic accidents were recorded, and one at the request of residents.
For example, new traffic lights have appeared on Bataysky passage near house 53. Previously, the pedestrian crossing was uncontrolled, but now crossing the road has become safer and more convenient. This is one of the most important streets in the Maryino district: it runs along the Moscow River and connects Donetskaya Street with the service road of Lyublinskaya Street. The road here is wide — four lanes, with heavy traffic. Nearby are the 850th Anniversary of Moscow Park, buildings of school No. 2087, a branch of city polyclinic No. 36, and public transport stops.
Traffic lights have also appeared on Shipilovsky Passage near house 57 and house 57, building 1. Nearby are school No. 1207, a post office branch, residential buildings, and city transport stops.
Since the beginning of the year, TsODD specialists have upgraded traffic lights at 148 locations. For example, some have been equipped with buttons to call the pedestrian signal. Pedestrian traffic lights were updated at 13 addresses, and transport traffic lights at nine.
Additional sections were added at nine more addresses, including for right turns, and duplicate traffic lights were installed above the road that repeat the signals of the main traffic light to make it easier for drivers on wide streets to see which signal is currently lit. Additionally, new type T.5 traffic lights with white moon signals appeared on the roads to regulate the movement of trams and buses.
All new traffic lights installed in Moscow are LED. They are well visible to drivers and pedestrians, consume less energy, and last longer. The decision to install a new traffic light or to upgrade an existing one is made after analyzing the traffic situation. Specialists take into account the intensity of vehicle and pedestrian traffic, the number of lanes, proximity to schools, hospitals, city transport stops, as well as accident data. In addition, residents’ appeals are also considered.
At the sections of Udaltzova Street and Vernadsky Avenue, traffic lights were relocated onto the city lighting poles — now the signals are better visible to drivers in all lanes, and there is more free space on the sidewalks for pedestrians. The work on relocating traffic lights is systematic and ongoing. This is part of a planned program to reduce the number of unnecessary metal structures in order to decrease visual noise.
Since the beginning of the year, traffic management specialists at the Traffic Management Center have adjusted or fine-tuned traffic light modes more than 1,600 times. These improvements help reduce the wait time for green signals for pedestrians, allow smoother flow of vehicle traffic, and enable quicker responses to changes in road conditions. Up to 90 percent of the adjustments are carried out remotely—from the Traffic Management Center’s situational control room.
Thus, at the intersection of Novoalekseevskaya Street and 3rd Mytishchinskaya Street, specialists installed an additional section with a white-moon signal featuring a pedestrian silhouette and reconfigured the traffic lights so that this section operates in the required phase: the green light is on simultaneously for drivers turning and for pedestrians crossing the road in that direction. As a result, the waiting time for the green signal was reduced by 35 seconds, and the intersection’s capacity increased.
Modern equipment transmits data about its operation to the Traffic Management Center’s situational center. This helps specialists promptly identify malfunctions and monitor the operation of traffic lights.
Since last year, data from the Traffic Management Center about traffic light signals has been transmitted to navigation services for drivers — now, during a trip, motorists know in advance which signal is lit at the upcoming intersection and how much time remains until it changes.
This year, the Traffic Management Center plans to install new and upgrade existing traffic lights at 250 locations across all districts of the capital.
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