(30 Dec 2022)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kerch, Crimea - 30 December 2022
1. Pan of traffic jam towards bridge
2. Various of queuing cars
3. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Irina Artyomenko, local resident:
“We are driving from Simferopol to celebrate New Year’s Eve in sunny Anapa. We’ve been stuck for a long time already, sitting for about 1.5 hours. The inspection is of course necessary, but probably during holidays they should have increased the number of people who are doing the security checks.”
4. Pan of traffic jam
5. Traffic police post
6. Wide of queued cars
7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Victor Kazak, local resident:
“We are not tired because it’s fine, security is necessary. The fact that we have been stuck for an hour is not that much."
(Reporter: But if you have to sit here longer?)
"We’ll sit, the security is more important. Let them check, examine (cars) - it’s their job. So that there are no surprises afterwards.”
8. Wide of bridge, cars
9. Various of cars moving slowly
10. Cars driving to the checkpoint, sign reading (English and Russian) “Stop. Control”
11. Close-up of cars driving slowly
STORYLINE:
Crimean residents and tourists who planned a trip for the New Year holidays faced a long wait in a traffic jam at the entrance to the Crimea bridge on Friday due to enhanced security measures.
About 1,200 cars waited in a three kilometre (1.8 miles) long line for inspection to cross the bridge from Crimea to the Krasnodar region.
According to local authorities, the waiting time on Friday was approximately four hours.
Many of the drivers were understanding of the circumstance and said that the security measures were "necessary."
The traffic jam on the other side of the bridge was almost five kilometres (3 miles) long.
Some people who were heading to Crimea from the Krasnodar region complained on social media that they were stuck for up to 10 hours on Thursday night.
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