Last fall, a modern transport interchange at Teply Stan was put into operation. The construction of this facility was very significant for the capital. The mayor of Moscow, Sobyanin, took part in its grand opening.
What preceded this event?
The capacity of the main transport routes of the south-west of Moscow left much to be desired for quite some time. But tensions have especially escalated in recent years. Traffic jams made impassable during rush hours both the main streets themselves and the intersections adjacent to them. It was possible to radically change the situation only by creating infrastructure facilities that ensure traffic flows at different levels in a non-traffic light mode. In particular, the roundabout at the Teply Stan metro station was designed to separate traffic at two major south-west highways meeting at this intersection at different levels. We are talking about Profsoyuznaya Street and Novoyasenevsky Prospekt.
Preparatory work
The denouement on Teply Stan began to be built in July 2014. The construction of such a level of facilities is associated with more than significant capital costs. And also with the need to carry out a whole range of technical measures aimed at ensuring an acceptable level of transport communication during construction and installation works. The construction process itself should be completed as soon as possible. For this work were organized around the clock. More than three hundred workers constantly worked at the construction site.
Interchange Profsoyuznaya - Teply Stan, engineering features
One of the most important elements of the denouement was the construction of a large six-lane overpass in the direct passage of Profsoyuznaya Street. Its length was 974 meters. On both sides of the flyover, sideways with three-lane traffic are equipped with the right lane allocated for public transport. In the space under the flyover there are single-lane reversal exits. An equally important part of the project was the arrangement of the approach from Tyoply Stan Street in the direction of Novoyasenevsky Prospekt. To ensure movement at this level, three lanes in each direction were also required. In addition to all of the above, such a complex object of transport infrastructure as the denouement at the Teply Stan provided a significant amount of work to equip the entire territory adjacent to it. We are talking about redevelopment and relocation of various utilities, the construction of five underground passages and the arrangement of several car parks. In order for the denouement on Teply Stan to be able to carry out its functions unhindered, significant attention had to be paid to Novoyasenevsky Prospect. In the part of it along which traffic is moving in the direction of Lithuanian Boulevard, the width of the carriageway had to be expanded to three lanes.
What's next? Trends and Prospects
In the few months since the launch of the facility, it fit well with the transport infrastructure of the south-west of the capital. Muscovites have already got used to it and take it for granted that from Novoyasenevsky Prospect you can easily get to Teply Stan Street. Transport interchange provides such an opportunity. You can already forget that in former times, traffic jams regularly formed on this place. Moreover, this was already happening at the distant approaches to it and by no means only during rush hours. The experience of designing and building transport communications in Moscow, as well as other large megalopolises, suggests that the most effective engineering solutions here are facilities that provide traffic flows at different levels in non-stop mode. Engineering facilities of this kind are very expensive on a budget and quite complicated in the construction and installation plan. But that simple circumstance speaks in their favor, that more reasonable decisions in the conditions of big cities and heavy traffic flows simply do not exist. That is why interchanges of this type are being built and designed both in the capital itself and in the near Moscow region.