MCC workstations list. New metro scheme - MKZD
The average speed of passenger trains will be 40 km/h.
According to the head of the Business Block Management Department “Passenger Transportation” JSC " RUSSIAN RAILWAYS " Maxim Schneider, the average speed is determined taking into account acceleration and deceleration and stopping time. In addition, freight traffic will continue on the Moscow Central Circle." As before, it will be served by the depot “ Likhobory”, equipped with diesel locomotives 2M62 and ChME3. However, after the launch of passenger electric trains, freight traffic will be carried out mainly at night.
Passenger traffic on the Moscow Central Circle will be launched in the fall of 2016. In the first year of operation, it is planned to transport about 75 million people. There will be 31 transport interchange hubs on the Moscow Ring Railway, and all stations will also provide the possibility of transferring to public transport.
/ Thursday, July 7, 2016 /Topics: Public transport Moscow Ring Railway MCC Russian Railways
It will be possible to travel a full circle along the Moscow Central Circle in 84 minutes, the head of the business block management department told reporters “Passenger Transportation”
JSC " RUSSIAN RAILWAYS " Maxim Shneider. He is quoted by the agency “ Moscow ". According to the official, the average speed of electric trains will be about 40 kilometers per hour, taking into account acceleration and deceleration and stopping time. Control of travel and inspection of passengers at stations will be carried out by Russian Railways employees, for which inspection areas will be created with metal detectors.
In turn, the deputy head of the State Unitary Enterprise “Moscow subway”
for Strategic Development and Investments, Roman Latypov again confirmed that the launch of the ring will not affect the cost of travel. “Cards” will be valid on the line Troika”, “United", “90 minutes" and all types of capital benefits. And in August, new schemes will appear in the subway, where the Moscow Central Circle will be indicated as the 14th metro line; the launch of the line may be scheduled for the first ten days of September.
According to the calculations of the capital's authorities, the ring will gain popularity among Muscovites and guests of the capital within two years after the launch of passenger traffic on it. In the first year of operation, the road should carry approximately 75 million passengers, and by 2025 the expected passenger traffic will increase to 300 million people per year, which is comparable to traffic on busy subway lines.
In this case, the average speed will be about 40 kilometers per hour, reports the City News Agency “ Moscow " with reference to the Head of the Business Unit Management Department “Passenger Transportation” JSC " RUSSIAN RAILWAYS " Maxim Schneider.
Also, trains on the Moscow Circle will be synchronized with the metro. Thus, trains will not run at night from 1:00 to 5:30. The opening of the ring railway is scheduled for September 1, 2016. There will be 31 stations on the ring, passengers will be able to make 17 transfers to 11 metro lines and 9 transfers to radial directions of the Moscow railway hub. All city tickets and benefits will be valid to pay for travel, and transfers between the metro and the Moscow Ring Railway will be free.
The launch of passenger traffic on the Small Ring of the Moscow Railway will actually create another ground ring of the Moscow Metro, which will reduce the load on the subway by about 15%, and in 2020 - by 20 percent. The load on critical sections of radial metro lines will be reduced - these are two or three stations in front of the ring, where the maximum number of passengers gathers during rush hour.
A full circle along the Moscow Ring Railway (Moscow Ring Railway), including stops, will take passengers 84 minutes.
According to the m24.ru portal, the entire route around the ring will take 84 minutes. Head of the Business Unit Management Department “Passenger Transportation” JSC " RUSSIAN RAILWAYS " Maxim Shneider said that this takes into account stops and acceleration and braking.
The Moscow Ring Railway (outdated name) will be the second metro circuit. It will intersect with the metro at convenient interchange hubs. The test launch of the ring will take place in July. Passengers will be able to use the railway from September.
The 54-kilometer ring will have 31 stations and 17 interchanges on the metro line. All city tickets and benefits on the ring will remain valid.
It will be possible to drive along the Moscow Central Circle in 84 minutes at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour, the Agency reports. Moscow ".
“We expect that the train will complete a full circle, including stops, in 84 minutes. The route speed will be about 40 kilometers per hour, taking into account acceleration and deceleration and stopping time.”, - said the head of the business block management department “Passenger Transportation”
JSC " RUSSIAN RAILWAYS " Maxim Shneider.
The Moscow Ring Railway will become a full-fledged second circuit of the metro, which will be integrated into the Moscow subway system with the help of convenient transport hubs. The test launch of the second metro ring is scheduled for mid-July, and the railway will open for passengers in September.
The length of the Small Ring will be 54 kilometers. 130 pairs of trains will run along it at intervals of 5-6 minutes during peak hours. It is planned to equip all rolling stock with energy-saving electrical equipment.
There will be 31 stations with transport interchange hubs (TPU) on the ring. There are 17 transfers to 11 metro lines and 9 transfers to radial railway lines.
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Today it became known how long it will take to travel from point A to point A on the Moscow Ring Railway. Test runs of trains have shown that a full circle along the Moscow Central Circle can be traveled in 84 minutes at a speed of 40 km/h. The head of the business block management department told reporters about this. “Passenger Transportation”
JSC " RUSSIAN RAILWAYS " Maxim Shneider.
Deputy Mayor, head of the capital's Department of Transport and Road Infrastructure Development Maxim Liksutov said that the Moscow Ring Road received the official name "Moscow Central Circle". It was previously reported that passenger traffic on the Moscow Ring Railway is planned to be launched in the fall of 2016. In the first year of operation, the Moscow Ring Railway should transport approximately 75 million passengers.
A full circle along the Moscow Central Road (formerly the Moscow Ring Road) will take 84 minutes, the news agency reported. Moscow " with reference to the head of the Business Block Management Department “Passenger Transportation” JSC " RUSSIAN RAILWAYS " Maxim Schneider.
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The route speed will be about 40 kilometers per hour, taking into account acceleration and deceleration and stopping time,” Schneider said.Let us recall that the Moscow Ring Railway (MKZD) was given the official name - Moscow Central Road. Now on metro maps it is called “Second ring”.
Already this fall, the capital's metro will be connected to the new ring. The MCD is a modern, electrified line with completely new traffic safety devices. According to preliminary calculations, after its commissioning, the Circle Line of the Moscow Metro will be unloaded by 15%.
This is the time for a full circle of the MCC.
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The average speed of electric trains will be about 40 km/h. Passage control and screening of passengers at stations will be carried out by Russian Railways employees using metal detector frames.
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In certain sections of the ring there is a third route for maneuvering train movements.
The transport route will be opened for passengers by the end of 2016. 31 stations will operate, including 17 with transfers to the metro line.
The average speed of trains on the Small Ring Railway will be 40 kilometers per hour. They will be synchronized with the metro, and transfers between the metro and the Moscow Ring Railway will be free.
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All city tickets and benefits will be valid to pay for travel on the Small Ring.. . . . .
The Moscow Central Circle (MCC) will open to passengers in early September. Approximately September 10th. This was stated by the head of the Moscow Metro, Dmitry Pegov.
The MCC line received number 14 in the Moscow Metro. The ring consists of 31 stations, 17 of them are connected to the metro, 10 to radial railway lines. Transfers between metro stations and the MCC will take no more than 10-12 minutes. The shortest and most comfortable transfers will be in “warm” (not requiring going outside) crossings from the stations: Mezhdunarodnaya, Leninsky Prospekt, Cherkizovskaya, Vladykino, Kutuzovskaya.
The main advantage of the Moscow Central Circle is that it should relieve the “Koltsevaya” line by 15%, the “Sokolnicheskaya” line by 20%, and all stations.
ABOUT OPERATING MODE
Since the Moscow Central Circle is metro line 14, the operating hours will be identical - daily from 5.30 to 1.00.
ABOUT THE COST OF TRAVEL
A single ticket for 20 trips will cost 650 rubles, for 40 trips - 1,300 rubles, 60 trips - 1,570 rubles. At the same time, travel for Troika card users on the MCC will cost the same as on the metro - 32 rubles. It is worth emphasizing that the possibility of transferring from the metro to the MCC and back will be free of charge.
Transfers within 90 minutes from the moment you first enter the station are free. Reprogramming of turnstiles, cash registers, and ticket vending machines has now begun,” said Dmitry Pegov.
You can use the second free metro transfer from MCC platforms only with tickets purchased after September 1. Passengers who purchased tickets before this date will be able to exchange them for new ones, with the benefit of a free transfer. Otherwise, the additional trip will be charged. And the first 30,000 people who exchange tickets purchased before September 1 will receive gifts from the metro. There will be no need to exchange social cards.
ABOUT PAYMENT METHODS
Tickets can be purchased in the same way as for trips on the metro: at ticket offices, vending machines, or top up your Troika card via the Internet. It will also be possible to pay for travel by credit card. For this purpose, all stations are now equipped with machines for reading bank cards.
ABOUT PASSENGER SERVICES
The stations will introduce similar services that exist in the metro. Passengers with limited mobility will be able to benefit from free mobility assistance. The stations will have chargers for gadgets, trees, and benches. And also trash cans, which are not in the Moscow metro itself. “Live Communication” counters will appear at five stations, where tourists will also be able to obtain information in English. In particular, it is already being installed at the Luzhniki station.
ABOUT COMPOSITIONS
33 trains will be launched on the ring, which will have handrails for standing passengers. And just like on regular trains, there will be toilets. The interval between trains will be only 6 minutes.
THE YANDEX METRO APPLICATION WILL BE UPDATED
By the time the Moscow Central Circle launches, the map will be updated in the Yandex Metro application, which is used by many Muscovites.
We have already taken measurements so that people can plan their time on the trip. People will also be informed about temporary closures of stations, said Alexander Shulgin, CEO of Yandex in Russia.
WHAT ARE THEY DOING NOW?
Navigation is hosted;
The trains practice movement intervals;
Information boards are installed on the platforms;
They are creating comfortable ground transport routes connecting with stations of the new subway line.
INTERESTING TO KNOW
75 million passengers will be able to use the transportation in the first year, and by 2025 the number will increase to 350 million passengers annually;
The metro staff will increase by 800 people.
Online workload application
To implement this project, it is necessary to prepare the infrastructure to show this. But we have this in our plans. This will be a similar project to Yandex.Traffic. The Moscow Metro is working on the issue of providing Yandex with data on congestion. As soon as we are able to receive them, we will send them to Yandex, and they will be displayed in the application online,” said Dmitry Pegov, head of the metro.
Launch stages
The opening of the Moscow Central Circle (MCC) took place on September 10, 2016. At the first stage, 24 stations will be available to passengers, and seven more MCC platforms will open in December. A RIAMO correspondent learned how to use a new type of urban transport.
The opening of MCC stations will take place in three stages.
The first one is scheduled for September 10, already this Saturday 24 stations will be put into operation: Okruzhnaya, Likhobory, Baltiyskaya, Streshnevo, Shelepikha, Delovoy Tsentr, Kutuzovskaya, Luzhniki, " Gagarin Square”, “Crimean”, “Upper Boilers”, “Vladykino”, “Botanical Garden”, “Rostokino”, “Belokamennaya”, “Rokossovsky Boulevard”, “Lokomotiv”, “Falcon Mountain”, “Entuziastov Highway”, “ Nizhegorodskaya", "Novokhokhlovskaya", "Ugreshskaya", "Avtozavodskaya" and "ZIL".
In December 2016, 7 more stations will become available to passengers: Koptevo, Panfilovskaya, Zorge, Khoroshevo, Izmailovo, Andronovka and Dubrovka.
And in 2018, the construction of warm crossings will be completed: it will be possible to make transfers without going outside. A total of 350 transfers will be available for passengers, so travel time should be reduced by 3 times.
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Fare
From September 10 to October 10, 2016, travel to the MCC will be free for everyone. Some of the turnstiles will be open, and others will open automatically when approaching them. Thus, tickets will need to be applied to the turnstile only in transitions to railway stations and the metro.
After October 10, any Moscow Metro travel card (Troika, Ediny, 90 Minutes), as well as social cards, will be used to access the MCC station. Within 90 minutes from the moment the ticket is validated, the transition from the metro to the MCC and back will be free. Payment for travel by bank cards is also provided.
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MCC schemes
Three variants of MCC schemes have been developed for passengers. The first, in addition to the metro lines and MCC stations, indicates the stages of opening stations and transitions, the distance between transfer stations and the time it will take to transfer.
The second version of the diagram will help commuters find their way: the map shows railway stations, existing metro lines, as well as MCC stations and “warm” metro transfers.
The third diagram shows the stops of ground urban transport near the MCC stations, as well as the interval of its movement during rush hour. For example, from the Luzhniki platform of the MCC you can go to the Sportivnaya metro station in 2 minutes. Buses number 806, 64, 132 and 255 regularly run there, so getting to the right place will not be difficult.
In addition, the map shows all the main attractions of the city, forest parks and nature reserves. Many of them are within walking distance from the MCC, for example, Losiny Ostrov Park and the Vorobyovy Gory Nature Reserve.
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Transplants
The MCC is integrated into the Moscow public transport system with the possibility of transfer to the metro, Moscow Railway trains and ground public transport.
From September 10, it will be possible to transfer from the MCC to the metro at 11 stations (Business Center, Kutuzovskaya, Luzhniki, Lokomotiv, Gagarin Square, Vladykino, Botanical Garden, Rokossovsky Boulevard, "Voikovskaya", "Shosse Entuziastov", "Avtozavodskaya"), by train - on five ("Rostokino", "Andronovka", "Okruzhnaya", "Business Center", "Likhobory").
By the end of 2016, the number of transfer hubs will increase to 14 and 6, respectively, and in 2018 there will be 17 transfers from the MCC to the metro and 10 to the train.
To make a free metro-MCC-metro transfer (within an interval of 90 minutes), you need to attach your metro travel document to the turnstile with a special yellow sticker at the entrance to the MCC station.
Passengers who are planning a trip only on the MCC or intend to make one metro transfer - MCC or vice versa, can apply their tickets to any turnstiles, including those without yellow stickers.
If you do not meet the 1.5 hour time limit, you will need to pay for the fare again when making a transfer.
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Trains and intervals
New luxury trains “Lastochka” with a capacity of 1,200 people will run on the MCC. Their maximum speed is 160 kilometers per hour, and they will travel along the MCC at an average speed of 50 kilometers per hour.
The trains are equipped with air conditioning, dry closets, information panels, free Wi-Fi, sockets and bicycle racks.
The cars will open manually: to enter or exit, you will need to press a special button installed on the doors. The buttons will be active (green backlight) only after the train has stopped on the platform; at other times, the doors will be locked for safety reasons.
During morning and evening rush hours, the traffic interval will be only 6 minutes. The rest of the time, “Swallow” will need to wait from 10 to 15 minutes.
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Updating (activating) travel cards
In order to access the MCC using “90 minutes”, “United” for 20, 40 and 60 trips, “Troika” tickets purchased or topped up before September 1, 2016, you need to renew them. To do this, you can contact the metro or monorail ticket office, as well as the metro passenger agency (Boyarsky Lane, 6) or the Moscow Transport service center (Staraya Basmannaya St., 20, building 1).
Holders of a Strelka card to travel by train must exchange it at the metro ticket office for a card with the Troika application.
Activation is carried out without changing the balance of trips and the validity period of the ticket, while the new reprogrammed travel documents will allow free transfers from the metro to the MCC and back.
You can also update your Troika electronic card yourself by topping up your balance at ticket machines at stations, on the website troika.mos.ru, via SMS or at payment terminals. As for social cards, their activation is not required.
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Help and navigation
You can find out detailed information about updating tickets, transfer hubs and navigation on the MCC from consultants at the entrance to the ring metro stations or at metro stations adjacent to the MCC. Volunteers will also help passengers navigate the new transport. A special mobile application is also being developed, with which you can choose the optimal route.
Here you can see new convenient routes through the MCC.
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Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti
This coming Sunday, September 10, the Moscow Central Circle (MCC) will celebrate one year since the launch of the first trains. During this time, more than 93 million passengers used the line against the original plan of 75 million. The project has already cost Russian Railways (RZD), the federal and Moscow budgets approximately 140 billion rubles. And within 15 years, costs will reach 200 billion rubles. Investments in the project will never pay off, experts say. Why will this happen and should an infrastructure project of this scale necessarily pay off?
How much does MCC cost?
The return of passenger trains to the Moscow Circular Railway, which was canceled back in the 1930s, was dreamed of by ex-Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov for many years, but his successor Sergei Sobyanin managed to implement the project. Urban planning documentation and feasibility studies for the construction of a passenger railway and its accompanying infrastructure were ready back in the 2000s, recalls Sergei Tkachenko, former head of the Research and Development Institute for General Planning. And in 2008, the Moscow government and Russian Railways signed an agreement on the reconstruction of the freight railway into a passenger one.
However, the lack of funds delayed the start of work for three years, Tkachenko continues. The issue of financing was resolved only in 2011, after the appointment of a new mayor; for this, Sobyanin had to make such a request to the President of Russia, Moscow and federal officials told Vedomosti at the time.
The government contributed 72 billion rubles from the budget to the authorized capital of JSC Russian Railways. for the arrangement of the railway part of the MCC infrastructure. Moscow spent 20 billion rubles. for the construction of infrastructure of transport hubs and more than 25 billion rubles. for the reconstruction of the road network, overpasses and the liberation of territories around the MCC, says Roman Latypov, first deputy head for strategic development and client work of the Moscow Metro State Unitary Enterprise. This enterprise oversees the work of the MCC on behalf of the Moscow authorities, it provides all the service personnel (except for train drivers) for the ring and provides a unified ticket program with the metro.
The Metro also acts as a customer for passenger transportation services. A 15-year contract with Russian Railways will cost the capital 57.7 billion rubles, says Latypov.
To organize traffic on the MCC, Russian Railways purchased 33 Lastochka electric trains from Ural Locomotives (a joint venture between Siemens and Dmitry Pumpyansky’s Sinary). The Russian Railways representative refused to disclose the amount of investment and its return on investment. Based on the contract, one Lastochka train of five cars cost 8.7 million euros. Consequently, 33 trains could cost Russian Railways 19.2 billion rubles. (at the weighted average exchange rate for 2016 of 67 rubles). From May 1, 2017, the train service interval on the MCC was reduced from 6 to 5 minutes during peak hours and from 12 to 10 minutes at other times. Therefore, Russian Railways had to buy nine more trains with an estimated cost of 5.25 billion rubles.
Russian Railways did not calculate the return on investment in the project, assures a person close to the state-owned company. The contract turned out to be unprofitable, one of the Russian Railways consultants knows. The investment may never pay off, he adds.
The amount that Russian Railways receives under the contract with the Moscow government for servicing the MCC is 3.8 billion rubles. per year – not tied to passenger traffic. The company must provide a certain traffic interval, says Vladimir Savchuk, Deputy General Director of the Institute for Problems of Natural Monopolies (IPEM). The amount of payments includes the tariff for transportation on commuter trains in Moscow, which does not depend on the size of the investment, but is calculated based on the cost of infrastructure and currently amounts to 0.1% of it. According to PwC partner Dmitry Kovalev, in order to recoup the project in at least 10–15 years, the tariff must be at least 1.5 times higher.
Russian Railways received money for the project from the budget, the company does not need to return these investments, the city hall official objects. Direct costs of Russian Railways are the purchase of trains and their operation. Therefore, the profitability of transportation on the MCC is 8%, says a city hall official.
Return on investment does not come first, because this is a large infrastructure project, as follows from Latypov’s words. The main task of the MCC is to provide a transport alternative for citizens, and without subsidies for transportation there is not a single metro in the world, he says. Such transport projects have “a much more important effect - comfort of movement, saving travel time (on the MCC passengers save 9-11 minutes compared to traveling on other types of public transport) and the effect on the development of territories,” Latypov believes. Today, an MCC passenger costs the city 40% less than a metro passenger, a source in the mayor’s office points out, due to the new infrastructure and ground location of the tracks. In addition, currently the MCC is only loaded at half its capacity; over time, its occupancy will increase.
It’s hardly possible to talk about the MCC’s payback in the foreseeable period of time, Tkachenko agrees: “Such projects provide exclusively indirect payback, transforming urban areas from secondary, degrading ones into investment-attractive ones. This is why budget funds exist - to contribute to the capitalization of the city, to increase the tax base.” Such projects cannot be assessed only from the point of view of the return of funds, agrees Savchuk. Like any infrastructure project, the MCC is aimed at developing the city and surrounding areas and increasing business activity. “The project is very large-scale, analogues in the world are not of urban, but of national significance,” explains Savchuk. “The implementation of the project provided orders for industry, designers, and created the opportunity for the implementation of modern and innovative solutions, for example, in the field of transportation automation.”
Who needs a ring
Before the launch of passenger traffic, the entire length of the MCC (54 km) became double-track; a third track for freight and technological traffic was built along 31 km. From each MCC station, passengers can transfer to ground urban transport; for this purpose, access roads, turning areas for buses and stops for passengers are organized on both sides of the railway. From the MCC you can make 14 transfers to metro stations and six to commuter trains. The new ring passes through 26 districts of Moscow with a population of 1.9 million people, says a representative of the Moscow Department of Transport. Residents of six of them (Metrogorodok, Beskudnikovsky, Koptevo, Kotlovka, Khoroshevo-Mnevniki and Nizhegorodsky) - about 500,000 people - previously had virtually no access to the metro, he adds.
Integration with the metro (the MCC and the metro have a single ticket system) has ensured explosive growth in traffic on the MCC, says Savchuk from IPEM. If there are questions about the return on investment in the MCC, then from the point of view of passenger traffic this is not just a successful, but an extremely successful project, the Russian Railways consultant is sure. It was planned that in the first year of operation the MCC would transport 75 million people, in 2020 – 170 million, and in 2030 – 300 million. The plan has already been exceeded. In less than a year, according to the Moscow Department of Transport, about 93 million people used the MCC.
How many new passengers were attracted to Moscow transport due to the MCC? Neither the mayor’s office nor the metro gives an answer to this question. Most likely we are talking about not very large quantities. The MCC absorbed some of the passengers from the metro and trains. Although, obviously, some car owners preferred “Swallows” to their own cars, a source in the mayor’s office believes.
New lines “almost do not add passenger traffic, they only redistribute it,” Tkachenko believes. But this is also good, since in general the level of comfort on the old lines, from where some passengers leave, is increasing, he points out.
61% of MCC passengers transferred from the metro, 26% from commuter trains, another 13% are residents of adjacent areas who get to the station on foot or by ground public transport. The final point of travel for approximately 30% of MCC passengers is areas near stations, the rest use Lastochkas instead of the Circle Line of the metro, says a representative of the Moscow Department of Transport.
There are a lot of so-called tourists on the MCC, Latypov notes. He also includes among them passengers who choose a longer journey compared to a shorter one by metro. For example, when a passenger travels from Luzhniki to Lokomotiv, instead of taking the metro from Sportivnaya to Cherkizovskaya. “The MCC offers a new level of service: stations with charging stations for mobile phones and other amenities; there are toilets in two cars of each train; the trip itself became more comfortable due to the silence and fewer people. The MCC is also more convenient for cyclists - they can enter the carriages without unhooking the front wheel, as in the metro,” explains Latypov.
Unloading was successful
Moscow authorities are pleased that the MCC has reduced the load on overloaded metro stations and city train stations. Thanks to the MCC, passengers do not have to go to ring metro stations to make a transfer, notes Latypov. According to him, the new transport route reduced the load on the busiest sections of the Circle Line metro by 15%, Sokolnicheskaya by 20%, Lyublinskaya by 14%, Filevskaya by 12%, Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya by 5%. This is very important for the metro, because it increases the comfort of travel, notes Latypov.
At some previously unpopular metro stations, passenger traffic, on the contrary, has increased, unloading other stations. With the advent of the MCC, passenger traffic at the station. m. "Kutuzovskaya" grew 3.5 times from 8,000 to 29,000 people per day. Previously, according to the Moscow Metro, it was one of the 30 most unpopular metro stations in Moscow, but now it is unloading the Kievskaya station.
The load at Kazansky and Rizhsky stations has decreased by 30%, at Kursky - by 40%, at Yaroslavsky and Leningradsky - by 20%, says a representative of the transport department. Now MCC passengers can transfer to electric trains of the Oktyabrsky, Savelovsky, Yaroslavl, Kazan and Smolensky directions; integration with four more directions out of the remaining five is planned to be carried out before the end of 2018, promises a representative of Russian Railways. It is also planned to move a number of platforms in radial directions closer to the stations of the MCC (Okruzhnaya in the Savelovsk direction, Severyanin in the Yaroslavl direction and Leningradskaya in the Riga direction), as well as to build new stops and stations (Novokhokhlovskaya in the Kursk direction, Varshavskaya in the Pavelets direction, Karacharovo in the Gorky direction).
One of the main advantages of the MCC is that passengers do not have to go to train stations in the center and then transfer to the metro, says Latypov. He estimates there were 25 million such trips per year.
The development of the MCC should convince citizens to give up private cars. A study by the Research and Development Institute of the general plan, conducted in the 2000s, showed that when a metro station appears, the coefficient of use of public transport in the areas adjacent to it increases. In Moscow, only the metro and the Moscow Railways could solve this problem; the periodically proposed alternatives are not capable of this: bicycles, monorails, cable cars, balloons, etc., says Tkachenko. A representative of the Moscow Department of Transport gives the following example: four MCC stations (Botanical Garden, Lokomotiv, Luzhniki, Rokossovsky Boulevard) have parking lots with a total capacity of more than 650 parking spaces. Since the stations opened, more than 48,000 motorists have left their cars at these park-and-ride stations and transferred to the MCC, thus preventing these cars from reaching the city center.
Loading will be
Compared to the Moscow Metro, the MCC's share in traffic is negligible: in 2016, about 2.4 billion people used the metro, the MCC - 25 times less. The comparison is incorrect, because the MCC is just one of the metro lines, points out a representative of the Moscow Department of Transport. And in terms of daily passenger traffic, the MCC has already overtaken some branches.
Tkachenko is confident that over time the load on the MCC will increase. Any highway that has just been put into operation does not fill up immediately, he says, recalling the free Third Transport Ring in the first year of its launch. Latypov cites the example of the London DLR (Docklands Light Railway), a light metro that, among other things, connected the Docklands area with the city center. The DLR currently has 45 stations and the network length is 34 km. In 1987, the first year after its launch, 17 million people used the line. Now more than 101.5 million passengers use it, says Latypov. Docklands was a port area and today it is the business center of London.
TASS-DOSSIER /Valery Korneev/. On September 10, passenger traffic opens in Moscow on the Moscow Central Circle (MCC), an intracity ring line of passenger electric trains that uses the infrastructure of the Small Ring of the Moscow Railway (MK MZD).
The line is integrated with the Moscow metro (in the metro system it is assigned the number 14) and radial railway lines.
Stations and transfers
The total length of the Moscow Central Circle is 54 km. A total of 31 passenger platforms have been built on the MCC. It is expected that 26 platforms will open for passenger traffic on September 10, 2016, the remaining 5 by the end of 2016.
Transfers to the Moscow Metro lines are planned from 17 stations. Five transfers to metro stations from the very beginning will be carried out “in a warm circuit” (without going outside): to “Kutuzovskaya”, “Delovoy Tsentr”, “Vladykino”, Cherkizovskaya” and “Leninsky Prospekt”. In 2016, after the opening station "Shelepikha" of the Third Interchange Circuit, transport interchange hubs will be built that will provide transitions "in a warm circuit" to the metro stations "Partizanskaya", "Botanical Garden", "Rokossovsky Boulevard", as well as the stations under construction "Nizhegorodskaya" and "Okruzhnaya" ".
At other stations, you will need to go outside to transfer: for example, a transfer from the Baltiyskaya MCC station to the Voykovskaya metro station will take about 12 minutes.
In 2016, five transfers to electric trains in five directions will operate - Kazansky, Leningradsky, Belorussky, Yaroslavsky and Smolensky. Four more transfers - to Paveletskoye, Rizhskoye, Kursk, Gorky directions - will open in the coming years after the existing platforms are moved. The only direction of commuter trains with which transfers are not provided is Kyiv.
Also, transfers to 273 ground public transport routes will be organized from MCC stations.
Fare
During the first month of operation of the MCC (until October 10, 2016), travel along the ring will be free for passengers.
In the future, travel will be carried out using travel tickets and transport cards ("Unified", "90 minutes", "Troika") in accordance with metro tariffs while maintaining all existing social benefits.
At the same time, with a ticket for one trip it will be possible to make a triple transfer: metro - MCC - metro.
Operating hours, intervals
Opening hours - from 05.30 to 01.00 - coincide with the schedule of the capital's metro.
6 minutes - intervals during rush hours, 11-15 minutes - at other times. As the demand for the line increases, the intervals may decrease.
A circular drive around the entire ring will take 75-85 minutes.
Rolling stock
Every day, 30 five-car ES2G Lastochka trains (Siemens Desiro RUS), manufactured at the Ural Railway Engineering Plant, will operate on the MCC. Three more trains will be in reserve. Maintenance of the trains will be carried out by Siemens (under an agreement concluded at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in 2015) at the Podmoskovnoye depot, located in the Sokol and Airport districts of Moscow.
Each train can accommodate 1,200 passengers; Lastochka can also carry up to 12 bicycles. The trains are equipped with climate control systems, toilets, 220 V sockets and Wi-Fi. The doors will open with buttons at the request of passengers.
The maximum design speed of the Lastochka is 160 km/h. However, on the MCC, due to frequent stops, trains will only be able to reach a speed of 80 km/h. The average route speed will be about 40 km/h.
In total, up to 134 pairs of trains will run on the MCC per day.
Project cost
The MCC construction budget is 130.3 billion rubles. In total, 74.8 billion rubles were allocated from the federal budget, investments from the Moscow government amounted to 15.5 billion rubles. Another about 40 billion rubles. private investors will invest in the construction of transport hubs.
Freight traffic
Freight traffic on the line will continue at reduced volumes only at night. Currently there are 12 operating freight stations on the ring.
MCC goals
The main goal of the project is to relieve congestion at railway stations, central parts of metro lines and create new short routes. The Moscow General Plan Institute expects that the introduction of the MCC will reduce passenger traffic on the Sokolnicheskaya metro line by 20%, on the Circle Line by 15%, on Lyublinskaya by 14%, on Filevskaya by 12%, on Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya by 18% and Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya - by 5%.
The load at Kazansky station will decrease by 30%, at Kursky - by 40%, at Yaroslavsky - by 20%, at Rizhsky - by 30%, at Leningradsky - by 20%.
It is planned that by September 2017 the Moscow Central Circle will transport 75 million passengers, 34.5 million of whom will use the road to transfer from the metro, 20.2 million from electric trains, 12.7 million from ground urban transport, and 7. 5 million will be city residents living near the MCC.
By 2025, the MCC is expected to transport 300 million passengers a year, and the line itself will create up to 40 thousand new jobs after the development of the areas closest to the stations.
MCC section on the official website of the Moscow Metro -