By 2020, it was planned to completely complete the construction of the Second Metro Ring in Moscow. However, later these terms were reduced to 2018.
It is difficult to overestimate the importance of the line under construction. Currently, the metro congestion during peak hours is 5.5 people per square meter. After the Second Ring of the Moscow metro (the scheme is given in the article), or TPK (Third Interchange Circuit), as it is often called, will be commissioned, the workload will drop to five people per square meter. People will be able to spend much less time on a trip than they are now.
Story
The idea of building another ring line in the metro has ripened in the minds of officials from the Moscow authorities for a long time. This project was considered in the early seventies of the last century. Work on it continued in 1985, when it was planned to build four chordal lines, which, when combined, would become a ring line.
In 2005, they again returned to the idea of construction, when three stations of the Business Center were already built. It was then that the decision was made to build a separate ring line. For this, it was planned to build nine new stations. However, the project was unrealized.
When they began to discuss it again in 2010, the development of the entire future ring remained unknown. Many additions and changes have been made. If the northern part of the new line seemed more or less clear, then the project of its southern part has not yet been.
At the end of 2011, it was decided to connect the northern part with the southern part, which for decades has been a project of the Big Ring Line. Approved a new option and the construction period of the Moscow metro 2020 was replaced by 2018.
But even when construction began, new changes to the plan continued to be made. At the beginning of 2015, it was decided to combine the movement of the TPK and the Solntsevsky radius with the span between the Shelepikha and Victory Park stations so as not to overload the already loaded Arbat-Pokrovskaya line.
The designers' goal was to weaken the flow of passengers from the Koltsevaya metro line, making the outskirts of the city more accessible. The construction of the TPK is the implementation of those projects that have been actively discussed for several decades.
The project began to be implemented in 2011.
Construction stages
Currently, many metro lines cross the city . Moscow has so far only one Ring Line in the subway. But soon its congestion will be removed, since on the approach - the Second ring of the Moscow metro. Its scheme takes on its final form. The length of the line will be over fifty kilometers, and TPK will be located closer to the outskirts. It is estimated that almost a million people will take over the new line daily.
The Second Ring of the Moscow Metro is being built in stages. The scheme may also change during the construction process. Each year a new section is commissioned. The Moscow metro plan (TPK) looks like this:
2015 year
The first part, which was supposed to begin its work in 2015, runs from Khoroshevskaya stations to Nizhny Maslovka. Separately, the "Business Center" and "Khoroshevskaya" are connected. The first section will consist of six stations: Petrovsky Park, Nizhnyaya Maslovka, Khodynskoye Pole, Shelepikha, Khoroshevskaya and Delovoy Tsentr. The length of this section exceeds twelve kilometers.
2016 year
In 2016, the northwestern part from Kuntsevskaya to Khoroshevskaya and the northeastern from Aviamotornaya to Nizhny Maslovka will open.
2017 year
In 2017, part of the Second Ring to the Kashirskaya station will open. A part of the Kozhukhovskaya line will also be built, which will enter the TPK and connect the Nekrasovka area with the Aviamotornaya station.
2018 year
In the specified year, it is planned to close the second ring of the Moscow metro. The scheme will be implemented after the opening of the southern, eastern and southeastern parts. TPK will connect the Kuntsevskaya and Kakhovka stations, crossing Kaluzhskaya and Vernadsky Avenue.
And what will be inside?
Part of the tunnels will be built traditionally, with two shields with a diameter of six meters. The other part is European, with one shield nine meters in diameter. Such a method was called “Spanish” in Moscow, as it was brought by the designers of Bustren, the company that built in Madrid over the past twelve years almost two hundred kilometers of lines.
Thanks to new technologies for the construction of the metro underground in Moscow, it will be possible to save twenty percent of budget funds, while at the same time minimizing the inconvenience of residents and guests of the capital associated with the construction.
Most TPK stations will consist of two tiers. At the same time, on the second floor there will be all the technical rooms that are at the ends at today's stations.
Shopping center nearby
The new construction of the metro in Moscow will delight shopping enthusiasts as well. Many beloved Outlet Belaya Dacha and TRC Mega Belaya Dacha will become closer to metro stations. You can get to the Megapolis shopping center from the Technopark station. And the new AviaPark shopping center on Leningradsky Prospekt will be waiting for its visitors from the new Khodynskoe Pole metro station. From the Ramenki station on Michurinsky Prospekt, metro passengers will be able to get to the Tiara shopping center, and from the Upper Likhobory station on Dmitrovskoye Shosse to the Metromall shopping center.
Travel time
Muscovites will get from one area to another much faster. The time spent on the trip will be reduced. Outskirts who work nearby are especially happy. At the same time, they are forced to spend a lot of time traveling to transfer to neighboring metro lines. Moscow, alas, takes a lot of time on the road. But now they will not need to get to the Circle Line, which will reduce dozens of minutes daily. Today, every third passenger must go to the center in order to get into the area next door.
The time from the Aviamotornaya station to the Riga station takes twenty minutes. And on TPK it will be halved. Twenty-two minutes spent on the way from the station "Elektrozavodskaya" to the station "Sokolniki" will be reduced to only three minutes.
Congestion
It is anticipated that the second ring will reduce the load on the functioning Ring Line from thirty to fifty percent. The indicator on this line during peak hours from seven people per square meter will be reduced to four and a half, and this is a decrease in passenger traffic by twenty-five percent. And the Second Ring of the Moscow Metro at this time will take over more than four hundred thousand people. At the Petrovsky Park station alone, one hundred and fifty thousand people will travel daily.
TPK will serve three depots. Thirty to forty pairs of trains will travel along the new ring per day. The eastern part will be served by the Nizhny Novgorod Depot, the southern by Zamoskvoretskoye, and the western and northwest by Fili.
How much is the metro in Moscow. Directions
Due to the large number of vending machines where you can buy tickets, queues at the box office have been significantly reduced.
Metro tickets have also changed. In particular, the so-called triple has been introduced. Thanks to this ticket, you can choose the best time and option for driving around the city, as the ticket includes the ability to transfer to ground transport.
To understand how much the metro costs in Moscow, you need to study the different tariffs that the metro offers. So, a ticket for one trip costs fifty rubles. But if you take a subscription for three months, then one trip will cost only twenty-three rubles thirty-three kopecks.