Road construction in the Russian capital does not stop for a day. And, despite the fact that sometimes it seems that all the reserves for improving the transport situation are already close to exhaustion, the city authorities, designers and builders manage to find new solutions to make life easier for motorists and public transport passengers. The commissioning of the system of chord roads and rocades will additionally relieve the load on the center and the main ring roads of the city.
Initially, Moscow turned out to be a hostage to the radial-ring transport system. And at a time when motorization was relatively slow, this state of affairs suited everyone. However, the capital was not ready for a sharp increase in the city's population and the number of cars at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. Analysts of the Monarch and B construction company, which is part of the Monarch Group of Companies, came to this conclusion.
The actions taken then by the city authorities did not keep pace with the pace of its development - new and reconstructed streets instantly turned into places of traffic congestion.
It became clear that building more and more new rings is a solution that does not give a serious effect and improves the traffic situation only for a short period of time. But it was obviously impossible to abandon the existing radial-annular system. Under these conditions, the city authorities, together with the best engineering and design minds, had to figure out how to make sure that the city does not get stuck in giant traffic jams in the near future.
The main idea was the redistribution of flows. In order to get from one sleeping area to another, located at the opposite end of the city, there were two travel options: through the Moscow Ring Road and through the center. Alternative routes were either inconvenient or too time consuming. New routes were needed. This is how the project for the construction of a system of chords and rocades appeared.
NORTH EASTERN CHORD
This highway will pass The North-Eastern chord 35 kilometers long will run from the new highway M11 "Moscow - St. Petersburg" to the Kosinskaya flyover - an interchange at the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road with the Veshnyaki - Lyubertsy highway. The chord will connect the Moscow Ring Road, Entuziastov Highway, Izmailovskoye, Shchelkovskoye, Otkrytoye, Yaroslavskoye, Altufevskoye and Dmitrovskoye Highways. It will reduce the traffic load on the center, the Third Transport Ring, the Moscow Ring Road and outbound highways.
The other day, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin opened traffic on overpasses at the junction of the North-Eastern Expressway with Entuziastov Highway and Budyonny Avenue. In August, an overpass was opened at the intersection of the new highway and Shchelkovskoye Highway. The main work on the construction of the North-Eastern Expressway is planned to be completed in 2019, said the head of the city's construction complex Marat Khusnullin.
In addition to the section from Entuziastov Highway to Izmailovsky Highway, two more have already been built - from Businovskaya Interchange to Festivalnaya Street and from Izmailovsky Highway to Schelkovskoye Highway. Currently, work is underway on sections from the Entuziastov Highway to the Moscow Ring Road and from Festivalnaya Street to Dmitrovskoye Highway.
NORTHWESTERN CHORD
The task of this city highway is to provide a diagonal connection between the north-eastern and south-western districts of the capital, bypassing the city center, to unload the Third Transport Ring, the Moscow Ring Road, the Garden Ring, Leningradskoe, Volokolamskoe highways and other highways. The new highway will run from Skolkovo to Yaroslavl highway.
The reconstructed Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street, together with the Alabyano-Baltic Tunnel, formed the main part of the highway, which, in the area of Dmitrovskoye Highway, joined the North-Eastern Expressway and through the Businovskaya Interchange got access to a new highway in the direction of Sheremetyevo Airport.
Thanks to the Mikhalkovsky tunnel, it became possible to remove traffic light objects. Traffic has already been launched on the overpass at the intersection of Skolkovskoye highway with Vyazemskaya and Vitebskaya streets, along the turning overpass with Ryabinovaya and the bridge over the Setun River.
It is planned to complete all construction work on the North-Western Chord and launch the entire highway in 2018.
SOUTHERN ROKADA
The road will connect the Moscow Ring Road through Rublevskoye Highway, Balaklavsky Prospekt, Varshavskoye Highway, Kantemirovskaya Street, Kashirskoye Highway and Borisovskie Prudy Street. Rokada will become a backup for the Moscow Ring Road and the southern section of the Third Ring Road. Its task is to redistribute traffic flows and unload the Kashirskoye and Varshavskoye highways, as well as Proletarsky Prospekt. The new highway will include existing roads, which will be reconstructed and expanded.
According to the plans of the city authorities, the Southern Rokada will pass from Balaklavsky Prospekt through a tunnel under Varshavskoye Highway, then cross the railway tracks through the overpass, cross the Chertanovka River over the bridge and connect with Kantemirovskaya Street near Proletarsky Prospekt. Further through the tunnel, drivers will be able to get to Borisovskie Prudy Street in the direction of Maryino. Next, the road will go along Verkhniye Polya Street, from where the transport will head towards the Moscow Ring Road through Kapotnya.
To date, the section from Rublevsky Highway to Balaklavsky Prospekt has already been put into operation. Overpasses and pedestrian crossings were built here. The plans of the city authorities include the construction of a junction at the intersection of Varshavskoye Highway and Balaklavsky Prospekt. A tunnel, overpass, U-turn ramps and side driveways will appear in this place. In addition, an overpass will be built under the paths of the Paveletsky direction, a bridge across the Chertanovka River and an underground pedestrian crossing. And the section from the intersection with Proletarsky Prospekt to the Moscow Ring Road will be formed at the expense of existing streets.
Total length of chord roads will be about 243 kilometers. Over a hundred transport structures will be erected on them - tunnels, flyovers, bridges and overpasses. The launch of traffic on new high-speed routes will make it possible to actually create a new ring, but with exits to the Moscow Ring Road, which will unload the last and the Third Ring Road. The plans are to connect the North-Western and North-Eastern chords in the area of Festivalnaya Street with access to the road to the Businovskaya interchange and further to the Moscow-St. Petersburg toll highway. The Southern Rocade will intersect with the North-Western Chord in the Krylatskoye area.
This autumn, the North-Eastern and North-Western chords in Moscow will be connected by a turning overpass on Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street. Pyotr Aksenov, First Deputy Head of the Construction Department, told journalists about this when he visited one of the sections of the North-Eastern Expressway under construction.
As RG already wrote, the metropolitan chords can be compared with the Moscow Ring Road or the Third Transport Ring in terms of the scale of construction and the impact on city traffic. They will save Muscovites from tens of kilometers of reruns, which they are now forced to do in order to get to the neighboring area. Chords will allow you to cross the city through and through, without stopping at the historical center. Both highways will be free.
In particular, the SZH will run from Dmitrovsky to Skolkovskoye highway, and the SZH will run from the Moscow-St. Petersburg toll road to the interchange at the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road and the Veshnyaki-Lyubertsy interchange. After the highways are fully launched, the load on the outbound routes, according to the calculations of the NI and PI of the General Plan of Moscow, will decrease by 20-25 percent.
Separate sections of chords are already used by motorists, and some of their elements are still being completed. For example, the junction of Festivalnaya Street and Dmitrovskoye Highway. It is almost 11 km long, and half of this path goes along bridges and flyovers. Artificial structures were specially designed so that they went as far as possible from the houses and did not cause inconvenience to their inhabitants. Nevertheless, just in case, in the skyscrapers of the northeast, builders replaced 6,000 windows with silent ones. However, construction is already over. Visually, the overpasses are almost ready, there is still something left to finish on the engineering side.
We have indeed completed 90 percent of the work, Aksenov said. - But there was a slight delay. On one of the plots there is the Khovrinsky pumping station, where communications need to be shifted. In winter, this could not be done so that 3.5 thousand local residents, whose houses are powered by it, do not suffer.
Turning off the station, it turned out, is possible only on May 15. According to Aksenov, it is possible to launch the northern section of the chord by the City Day in September. This will complete the work for almost the entire length of the temporary storage warehouse. Construction is still ongoing on the section between Schelkovskoye and Otkrytoye Highways.
Infographics "RG" / Alexander Chistov / Sergey Babkin
In the near future, in the southwest of the city, the North-Eastern passage will connect with the North-West. In the area of Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street, it is planned to build several connecting overpasses at once. The first of them, a reversal, will be completed in October this year. It allows you to drive from one chord track to another without wasting time on a detour along the Dmitrov highway. Let me note that the Moscow authorities expect to complete both chords by 2020-2021.
It is planned to open traffic on two sections of the North-Eastern Expressway by the beginning of autumn. Within the next month, the initial section from the Businovskaya interchange to the Dmitrovskoye highway will go, and by the beginning of autumn it is also planned to launch traffic along the final section of the route - from the Entuziastov highway to the Moscow Ring Road.
Read about the stage of readiness of the sections of the North-Eastern Expressway and when they are supposed to be opened in the material of the Moscow 24 portal.
Now the road between Dmitrovskoye Highway, Festivalnaya Street and Businovskaya interchange is almost ready, the builders are finishing the construction of a 200-meter section near the Khovrinsky pumping station.
"The Khovrinsky pumping station, which provided more than three and a half thousand consumers, fell into the construction zone. We built a new station, but we were able to disconnect all systems from the previous one only on May 15 of this year, and we began to build a two-hundred-meter section in a forced manner. We expect that we will finish in September. We will strive to open traffic for the City Day," Petr Aksenov, First Deputy Head of the Construction Department, told the Moscow 24 portal.
More than 11 kilometers of a four-lane road of the main course, seven overpasses, two of which are one and a half kilometers long and exits - from 300 to 500 meters long, were built on the site. They built a new overpass across the Oktyabrskaya railway and a bridge across the Likhoborka River.
“At the same time, the construction of the overpass across the railway went on without stopping the movement of trains,” said the first deputy head of Depstroy.
They also took care of protection from highway noise. “We have replaced 6,000 window blocks and will also build about 2 kilometers of noise barriers,” Aksyonov promised. Trees will be planted along the road, he said.
In October, a turning overpass will be built on Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street, connecting the North-Eastern chord with the North-Western one. "The flyover on Bolshaya Akademicheskaya is the first part of the connection of two chords. It makes it possible to turn around on Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street and drive onto the North-Eastern chord without stopping at Dmitrovskoye Highway," Aksenov said.
In September, it is planned to open traffic along one more section of the North-Eastern Expressway: from the Entuziastov Highway to the Veshnyaki-Lyubertsy interchange on the Moscow Ring Road. Here, the old traction substation of the Gorky direction of the Moscow railway became a stumbling block. According to Petr Aksenov, the city government has agreed with the Moscow Railway to demolish the substation and build a new one.
"The traction substation was turned off and switched to a new one, after which they began to complete the construction of the road. Full traffic from the Enthusiasts Highway to the interchange with the Veshnyaki-Lyubertsy MKAD will open in early autumn," he promised.
By the end of the year, the city authorities plan to open traffic from Otkrytoye to Shchelkovo highway. Here, overpasses of the main passage and side passages were built. As well as the tunnel under the Shchelkovo highway, which is going to open in the coming months. According to Petr Aksenov, the construction of roads with a length of more than eight kilometers with the relocation of engineering communications is in full swing.
"It is planned to open traffic on the section of the first section within the next month. The main work of the first stage of construction has been completed. It includes laying about 5.5 kilometers of roads, including the construction of three overpasses about 3.4 kilometers long," the official said.
He also noted that due to the commissioning of a new section, traffic flows between Shchelkovskoye and Otkrytoye Highways will be redistributed. This will reduce the traffic load on Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya, Stromynka, Krasnobogatyrskaya streets and Rusakovskaya embankment. In addition, the transport accessibility of the Golyanovo and Metrogorodok districts will increase.
Next year, construction of a section of the North-Eastern Expressway from Dmitrovskoye to Yaroslavskoye Highway may begin.
"The planning project passed public hearings, finally received approval from the Moscow government, now designing is underway. The site is very complex, there is a bunch of large industrial enterprises and a huge number of engineering networks. We are doing everything possible to start construction next year," said the first deputy head Depstroy.
He stressed that the design of the site and the release of the territory will be carried out at the expense of budget money. "We are already starting to work: demolishing garages and interacting with industrial enterprises that fall into the construction zone," Aksyonov said.
At the same time, there is a proposal from investors to build a road from Dmitrovsky to Yaroslavl highway on a concession basis, but a final decision on this issue has not yet been made, he explained.
The only section of the North-Eastern Expressway on which no work is being carried out yet is from Otkrytoye to Yaroslavskoye Highway.
“The problem is that, presumably, the road should pass through the Losiny Ostrov National Park, while there is no final decision on the tracing of the section. .
At present, work is underway in the capital on the construction of three new highways: the North-Western and North-Eastern chords, as well as the Southern Rokada ..
Length Northeast chord will be about 29 kilometers. It should, bypassing the center of the capital, urban areas in the north and southeast of Moscow, which are considered the most densely populated.
The chord will pass through the major highways in the north-east of the capital - Dmitrovskoye, Altufevskoye, Otkrytoe, and Izmailovskoye highways, allowing them to significantly relieve them. The chord is laid from the toll road Moscow - St. Petersburg from the western side of the Oktyabrskaya railway, along the Small Ring of the Moscow Railway to a new interchange on the Moscow Ring Road at the intersection with the Veshnyaki - Lyubertsy highway.
There will be a railway overpass on the section of the North-Eastern chord from Festivalnaya Street to Dmitrovskoye Highway. It is necessary for placing on it branch No. 2 of the Moscow railway junction, which connects the Khovrino and Likhobory stations.
It is also planned to build 4 car overpasses, two overpasses over the railway tracks and additional ramps to them on this section. This will allow residents of nearby areas to significantly save time on the road to Dmitrovskoye Highway. Currently, in order to get on the highway, you have to make a detour. The opening of this section will allow access to the highway directly in the vicinity of the Petrovsko-Razumovskaya metro station.
The northeastern chord is divided into sections:
Next year, a section of the "Northern Rokada" from the Entuziastov highway to the Moscow Ring Road. More than 12 kilometers of roads will be built here, including six overpasses with a total length of more than 3.7 kilometers. In addition, this section provides for the construction of an underground pedestrian crossing and the reconstruction of two existing ones.
Also, by the end of next year, a section of the chord from Schelkovskoye to Otkrytoye Highway. Here, work is underway to build new exits, as well as an entrance to the industrial zone.
An overpass will be built on this section for traffic towards the Shchelkovskoye Highway, an overpass for the exit to the Open Highway, an exit from the North-Eastern Chord to the Open Highway and a section of the exit from the Schelkovskoye Highway to the Severnaya Rokada.
But the construction of two sections of the chord - Izmailovskoe highway - Schelkovskoe highway and Izmailovskoe highway - Entuziastov highway - is planned this year. Moreover, work on the Enthusiasts Highway has already reached the finish line.
This section of the North-Eastern Expressway will run along the MCC tracks and cross the Entuziastov Highway near the metro station of the same name. Construction work is underway on the main course of the Northern Rokada, Entuziastov Highway, Budyonny Avenue, Perovskaya Street, Anosova Street, Elektrodny Proyezd and other adjacent sections of the road network. 5 pedestrian crossings and more than 7 kilometers of tram lines will be equipped here.
At present, construction has been completed and 5 overpasses, 3 pedestrian crossings, as well as the Lefortovo MCC station have been completed and put into operation. Work on this site is 85 percent complete.
The construction of temporary storage warehouses is planned to be completed in two years.
The construction of the North-Eastern Expressway is designed to provide a diagonal connection between the north, east and south-east of the capital, reducing the traffic load on the city center, the Third Transport Ring, the Moscow Ring Road and outbound highways.
The North-Eastern Expressway will provide transport services for the reorganized industrial zones in the East and South-Eastern Administrative Districts, will allow organizing traffic without traffic lights due to the construction of a section of the road from the Moscow Ring Road to Otkrytoe Highway, which will reduce the average travel time by more than 15 percent and unload the ring road by 20-25 percent, reduce air pollution in residential areas of Bogorodsky, Sokolniki, Basmanny by about 10 percent, and will also make the acoustic regime in these areas more comfortable.
The chord will stretch from Skolkovskoye to Yaroslavskoye Highway and unload the central part of the city, providing a diagonal connection between the northeastern and southwestern regions of Moscow. This will help unload the Third Transport Ring, the Moscow Ring Road, the Garden Ring, the Leningrad and Volokolamsk highways, as well as other highways.
The length of the chord will be about 29 kilometers. Traffic on it is planned to be made without traffic lights.
The following facilities will be built along the North-Western Chord:
Construction work has become one of the most difficult in the North-Western Chord. It passes under Leningradsky Prospekt, two transport tunnels (Volokolamsky and Leningradsky), Zamoskvoretskaya metro line, Podmoskovnaya station of the Moscow railway, and also connects Alabyan and Bolshaya Akademicheskaya streets.
The northwestern chord will increase the Aminyevskoye Highway by 25–30 percent. A part of Vitebskaya Street and Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street have already been built. Five more complex objects are in the works, including the connection of Mosfilmovskaya street with Aminevsky highway, Generala Dorohova street.
In addition, it is planned to build 30 new and reconstruct 15 existing ones on the North-Western Chord. In total, 12 overhead and 18 underground crossings will appear on the new highway, which will make it possible to organize traffic without traffic lights on a significant part of the chord.
The section from Rublevsky Highway to Balaklavsky Prospect has already been put into operation: two overpasses have been built on Rublevsky Highway and pedestrian crossings.
Among the plans is the construction of a multi-level interchange at the intersection of Varshavskoe shosse with (three lanes in each direction). A tunnel under Varshavskoe shosse, an overpass towards Varshavskoe shosse, two roundabouts and side passages for passing turning public transport flows, an overpass under the tracks of the Paveletsky direction of the Moscow Railways, as well as a bridge over the Chertanovka River and an underground pedestrian crossing will be built on this section.
At the same time, the construction of a railway overpass on the Paveletsky direction of the Moscow Railways will begin this year. According to the project, the first and second tracks will pass through one overpass, the third operating track and the fourth promising one will pass through the second.
And here is the 790-meter flyover at the intersection of Varshavskoye Highway with Balaklavsky Prospekt in 2018. As part of the project, two pedestrian crossings are being built across Kantemirovskaya Street: one above ground - at the intersection with 1st Kotlyakovsky Lane, and the second underground - near house No. 58. Double-glazed windows with soundproof valves are being installed in nearby houses. In total, builders will replace more than 1.8 thousand window blocks.
