Together with megacities, their transport system is rapidly developing. Metro St. Petersburg is no exception. Let's see how they plan to expand and modify it in the coming decades.
General plans for the development of St. Petersburg metro by 2020
The subway development plan of the Northern capital is fixed in the document that entered into force in 2011 - in the program "Development of the transport system of St. Petersburg". According to it, by 2020 it is planned:
- An increase in the total length of lines to 139.4 km.
- Opening 13 new stations.
- Launch of two new electric depots.
145.785 billion rubles were allocated for the implementation of the plan (12.1 billion of which were received from the federal budget). Contracts have already been signed for the opening of the following stations and the St. Petersburg metro depot:
- By 2018: "Running", "Danube", "Novokrestovsky", "Prospect of Glory", "Shushary", depot "South".
- By 2019: Mining Institute.
- By 2022: Putilovskaya, Yugo-Zapadnaya, Teatralnaya (the latter so far without access to the surface, which will be made later), the Krasnoselskoye depot.
Now we will consider in more detail the development plans for St. Petersburg metro.
2017-2022
Metro city in 2017-2022 will change as follows:
- The second stage of the Frunze radius will open - stations "Danube", "Shushary", "Prospect of Glory".
- The seaside radius of the St. Petersburg metro will last from Komendantsky Prospekt to Shuvalovsky Prospekt.
- The Nevsko-Vasilevskaya line will be longer - after the Primorskaya line they will build the Novokrestovskaya line, then the Begovaya line, and the final one will be Glider.
- It is expected to open a section of the Right-Bank line of the St. Petersburg metro - Spasskaya, Teatralnaya, and Mining Institute stations.
- The first stage of the Krasnoselsko-Kalinin direction will be represented by the South-West and Karetnaya stations.
In addition to the mentioned stations, it is planned to open the Yuzhnoye depot (Frunze radius) and Krasnoselskoye (Krasnoselsko-Kalinin line).
2022-2028
The development plan for St. Petersburg metro for this period is as follows:
- The right-bank line will last from Dybenko Street to Kudrovo. Along with this, there will be a further possibility of its extension to Southeast.
- A section of the metro ring "Mining Institute" - "Forest" will be launched.
- The opening of the section of the Krasnoselsko-Kalinin direction "Karetnaya" - "Streams" is expected.
- After the Veterans Avenue, the Kirov-Vyborg line will grow by the Street of Soldier Korzun and Prospect Marshal Zhukov stations. It is also planned to open a fork movement in this direction along the route "Prospect Veteranov" - "Ulyanka" - "Pulkovo".
The development plan for St. Petersburg metro during this period also includes the opening of the Ladoga Depot of the Right Bank direction.
Development after 2028
The plans for the more distant future are as follows:
- In the Right-Bank direction, the Mining Institute - Yuntolovo section will be opened.
- The ring line will increase clockwise in the east from Lesnoy to the Mining Institute.
- The Admiralteysko-Okhtinskaya line will be opened on the Dvinskaya - Yanino section.
- In the Frunzensko-Primorsky direction, after Shuvalovsky Prospekt, another SPb metro station will appear - Kolomyazhskaya.
- A new section of the Krasnoselsko-Kalinin branch - “South-West” - “Sosnovaya Polyana” will be launched.
- Two new stations will appear on the Nevsko-Vasilievskaya metro line St. Petersburg - Admiralteyskaya-2 (between Gostiny Dvor and Vasileostrovskaya) and Khrustalnaya (between Elizarovskaya and Alexander Nevsky Square).
The following electric depots will also be opened: Yanino and Dvinskoe in the Admiralteysko-Okhtinsky direction, Kolomyazhskoye in the Frunzensko-Primorsky, Yuntolovo in Pravoberezhny, and Sosnovaya Polyana in Krasnoselsko-Kalininsky.
The development plan for St. Petersburg metro in 2014 and subsequent years promises bright prospects for Leningraders. The metro of the city will be more ramified and convenient, with its help it will be possible to get to the remote and just developing areas of St. Petersburg.