Moscow Metro will “soon” open the first section of the Third Interchange Circuit between the Delovoi Tsentr and Petrovsky Park metro stations, a 10.5 km line served by five stations. “I hope that we will launch this section in the next 30-45 days,” Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.
Although the city started launching and testing the new circle line long ago, it is hard to operate passenger trains here because the line needs to be integrated with the radial metro lines, the Municipality said. The 67-km line with 31 stations will be completed in 2020-2021 and will have 31 stations.
Under the project, a new section of the metro’s Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line will open this year, and, when extended, the line will directly link the city’s western, southwestern and central districts without any interchanges. The line will provide transit services to people in the Ochakovo, Troparyovo-Nikulino, Solntsevo and Novo-Peredelkino districts.
The Kozhukhovskaya Line will also be opened stage by stage. “The Kozhukhovskaya Line extending to Nekrasovka is a very difficult project. We will open some stations, but the line will not operate to full capacity because several more stations have to be built to fully integrate the line with the rest of the metro system so it doesn’t overload the current lines,” Sobyanin said.
The Kozhukhovskaya Line will be over 17 km long and will feature eight stations, of which six will receive transit links/hubs.
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