This year, Moscow Metro will open new sections on Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya and Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya lines, a section of the Third Interchange Circuit and the Khovrino station on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line.
According to city’s plan, 35 km of metro lines and 16 stations will be opened this year, Andrei Bochkaryov, Head of the City Department of Construction said.
Ten tunnel-boring machines are being used in metro projects, he said, five of them on the Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line between the Ramenki and Rasskazovka stations. Three more are operating on the Kozhukhovskaya Line, with two others working in the northeastern section of the Third Interchange Circuit. “These tunnel-boring machines will help build about 27 km of metro tunnels and 4.5 km are already complete,” Bochkaryov said.
Since early 2017, the city have opened 7.2 km of metro lines between the Park Pobedy and Ramenki stations. “We are seeing the planned passenger traffic volumes, and 18,000-30,000 people used these stations in the first few days,” Bochkaryov noted.
The city has built 101 km of new metro lines and 55 new stations on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya, Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya, Zamoskvoretskaya, Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya, Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya, Butovskaya and Sokolnicheskaya lines since 2011. And 31 stations opened on the Moscow Central Circle railway last year.
The city will continue to open new stations next year. The northeastern section of the Third Interchange Circuit between the Nizhegorodskaya Ulitsa and Rubtsovskaya stations will open. “Construction is underway along the entire section. We are planning to launch it and the Kozhukhovskaya Line in 2018,” Bochkaryov said.
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