Archive for October 4th, 2006

October 4, 2006 in Uncategorized

Heavy machinery took care of the pits and sand hills today, the landscape is returning to relatively normal:

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On Khreshchatyk, they must’ve made an attempt to make it look less messy, but ended up creating more chaos: there is now officially marked parking on the sidewalk in the Besarabka-Khmelnytskogo segment, and a thick white line in [...]

October 4, 2006 in Uncategorized

Heavy machinery took care of the pits and sand hills today, the landscape is returning to relatively normal:

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On Khreshchatyk, they must’ve made an attempt to make it look less messy, but ended up creating more chaos: there is now officially marked parking on the sidewalk in the Besarabka-Khmelnytskogo segment, and a thick white line in [...]

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