Same happened with Berlin. It has a big street that runs from the outskirts right to the Brandenburger Tor in an almost completely straight line (only one kink). You can clearly see it on Berlin maps. Tellingly, this street is called "Heerstraße" (army/troops street)...

What you said about french tradition is not true, i protest! (taking my chairs, tables and furnitures and begin to pile them up unconsciously while shouting the Chant des Partisans)

This image reflects a decision about the removal of a moveable/portable market, and the removal of pedestrians from the space, not the construction of a road. The wide street was always there. It wasn't built for use in WW II. The market itself would/could have been cleared away for troop movement during WW II.... and been returned to its place, without any change in the roadway. What was cleared out was pedestrian usage of this space, and the market.

yeah people base their entire opinion on a single image in a particular context without knowing the reasoning behind it...

Paris streets have been build by destroying houses to open the way because they had sanitary problem and to modernize a town build in the middle age and before. Not for troops movement or to build barricades. You need to read what Haussmann did or Rambuteau. 18 th and 19 th century. T’écoutes trop de film madame.

This street is a circle arround old town (Sadovaya or Orchid)

Doesn't context kind of ruin the concept of the feed? Putting them in context, for me, is like being told how the magic trick is done.

This is the Garden Ring. It has little to do with military logistics, but rather was part of General plan for the reconstruction of Moscow. It was rebuilt and expanded to amend for increased city traffic in 1930s. Also, may day parades weren't a thing before the Victory Day, May 9th.

Urban places are a reality. instead of dismissing them we need to embrace them. Well designed urban places can be beautiful. people can live stacked up as long as they can get to markets, restaurants, parks, and natural places.It is cheaper, energy-efficient, time-saving.... especially if they work in the city. Wouldn't you want to be able to walk to work, no cost, no 2-hour commute, have lunch around the corner with friends. This was my life in the tired, worn-out city of Chicago It was wonderful.

Paris was redesigned to alleviate crowding and disease and congestion and general inefficiency. The project is still the most vast urban revitalization project in the history of the world. Haussmann's vision is an opus magnum of design and engineering, eclipsing even the pyramids.

How dare you provide historical context !! 😁

Great autobahn-like throughways were built up and down Apartheid South Africa to enable rapid troop nd military equipment to move fast when the lack population inevitable rose in righteous raise. That never happened: Mandela was released.

And again, you're an idiot.

You’re right about tverskaya, but this one is a different street

and it looks like the buildings in the first picture are still intact so no bulldozing was done

What about the I5?

Oh I got this! I leapfrogged across some lanes behind the Red Square. My friend and I had worked our way across one lane at a time but no one slowed down or stopped for us. Another time our tour bus driver was pressed for time or didn't want to wait it out in traffic so he cut across a couple of lanes and started driving down the sidewalk. Haaa, It was scary since he seemed to be driving down the sidewalk faster than when he was on the road. It was scary at but seeing people jump out of the way made it surreal and mindboggling.

Very interesting & ingenious. It actually looks better with the highway there instead of the market too.

It's a French national tradition to build barricades?

This can be done attractively like in France

It's a former Usadba ( country Estate) that is now Sheremetyevo Hospital