Moscow's New Arbat Street

In contrast to the old Arbat Street is the new Arbat Street built in the 1960s with much of its architecture refleting the soviet period. Unlike the pedestrian only old Arbat Street, the new Arbat Street provides ample pedestrian space as shown on the picture below and offers a number of shops and high rise residential living.
Between the pedestrian area and the major street is a parking zone shown on the picture below. An elevated planting area between the parking and pedestrian zones block the view of the less prefered vehicular environment. Large electronic boards are an entertaining if not distracting form of advertising.

Of course, new Arbat Street offers one of the most glowing local pass times, gambling cassinos. Whether in Moscow or Ukraine, a public place with a number of neon lights is a cassino as it is depicted on the picture below. Of course the new year is a well celebrated holiday in Eastern Europe and there is no better way to celebrate the year than to dress up the local buildings with the "2007."