Moscow Mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, announced that in the next few years, 95 percent of city residents are to get metro stations in their neighbourhoods. This year, the city will open new metro stations in several districts and the first section of the Third Interchange Circuit will also be opened. By 2025, the city will build 169 km of metro lines with 74 stations and 9 train maintenance facilities.
“This year, new metro stations are to open in Solntsevo, Novo-Peredelkino, Rasskazovka and other districts. The first section of the Third Interchange Circuit will receive its first passengers. The Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line (Line 10) will extend to Seligerskaya station,” Sobyanin said.
The Third Interchange Circuit is one of the most ambitious metro construction projects in the world. This 68.2-kilometre metro line will have 31 stations. The first section of TIC, with a length of 10.5 km, served by five stations, will be opened this year. This section will provice metro connection between Delovoi Tsentr and Petrovsky Park stations. The new underground metro line will be located about 10 km from the current Circle Line and will link all current and planned radial routes.
Also, this year, Moscow intends to open the first section between Nekrasovka and Kosino will be opened this year. Kozhukhovskaya Line will have a length of 17 km with 8 stations, of which six will have their own transit hubs. In 2019, the line’s second stage will be extended to Nizhegorodskaya Ulitsa and will also merge with the Third Interchange Circuit. It will considerably improve the transport system in the Nizhegorodsky, Ryazansky, Vykhino-Zhulebino, Kosino-Ukhtomsky districts and in the city of Lyubertsy near Moscow.
In 2017, Moscow built over 20 km of new metro lines with 9 stations. The Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line was extended 7.25 km and three new stations. There are plans to launch the line’s Ramenki-Rasskazovka section in 2018. The longer Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line will carry people from the Ochakovo, Troparyovo-Nikulino, Solntsevo and Novo-Peredelkino districts.
Last year, the city also built over 10 km of the Third Interchange Circuit with 5 stations, including Delovoi Tsentr, Shelepikha, Khoroshovskaya, CSKA and Petrovsky Park. The new section, to receive its first passengers in 2018, has already been tested with metro trains conducting trial runs.
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