Moscow City announced that opened, at the end of March, three metro stations on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line (Line No. 10) and, by the end of 2019, the city will complete extension works on this metro line.
During 2017, Moscow continued to develop its public transit system, completing four new metro stations, and expanding tram system.
Recently, it has opened the first section of the Big Circle Line, and city’s strategy envisages to build new metro stations so that 95 percent of city residents to have metro stations in their respective neighbourhoods.
The city is concentrating on new metro-line sections, as it continues to expand the capital’s transport infrastructure. Over 10 kilometres of new metro routes were built last year. The Minskaya, Lomonosovsky Prospekt and Ramenki stations have opened on the Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line (Line No. 8), and the Zamoskvoretskaya (No. 2) Line’s Khovrino station also opened.
In the past seven years, the city has built over 120 km of new metro lines, as well as 64 metro and Moscow Central Circle (MCC) stations. There are also plans to extend the metro’s Sokolnicheskaya Line (Line No. 1) by 2020. Its 9.4-km section linking the now operational Salaryevo station with Kommunarka rural town includes the Filatov Lug, Prokshino, Olkhovaya and Stolbovo stations.
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