New bus scheme n. New route network "Magistral": answering questions. What can you say about the design of "Magistral"
In October, a new ground transport network, Magistral, is launched in Moscow.
New routes of buses, trolleybuses and trams pass through the center of Moscow and main transport routes.
In this article we will explain why such a network is needed, who it will help and how to use it.
Why change anything?
In general, so that Moscow public transport better meets the needs of passengers. This particular network of routes is to make it easier for passengers to move around the center.
We want passengers to make it convenient to make daily trips around Moscow, completely relying on ground public transport. For example, so that you can come from your area to the center on business, move to another part of the center to meet friends in a cafe, then return home - and all this using ground transport.
To do this, transport must run quickly and frequently, be roomy and comfortable, and most importantly, go where passengers need it. The launch of the Magistral route network is one of the steps towards this goal.
What's changing?
To make transport in the center more convenient, we are launching three types of routes: highway, district and social.
Trunk routes are the main and longest. They connect several districts of Moscow with the center and among themselves, for example Leninsky with Leningradsky Prospekt, Luzhniki and Semyonovskaya, Nagatinskaya and Polezhaevskaya. These routes are marked with a thick line on the new map. The movement interval is 5 – 10 minutes. These are the fastest and most frequent routes on the network.
District the routes are shorter: they connect the districts with the center. They are easy to get to the main route or make a short trip. The movement interval is 10 – 15 minutes.
Social routes help Moscow residents get to My Documents centers, clinics, MFCs and other socially significant places. The movement interval is up to 30 minutes.
The approach to the traffic schedule has also changed: transport is switching to a clock schedule. Passengers will know, for example, that during peak times the main bus from Tverskaya Street to Leninsky Prospekt runs every eight minutes. And if a person comes to a stop and the bus door closes in front of him, then in eight minutes the next one will arrive.
The timetable is similar to the subway timetable: passengers are not supposed to know it, although it is there. You just come to the stop and wait for a short time for the next bus.
What happened to the routes?
We turned popular routes in the center into main routes and straightened them to increase traffic speed and reduce intervals. For example, trolleybus No. 62 from Udarnik to Teply Stan is now called M4, this is a main route with a service interval every four minutes.
For the next few months, transport along routes will have two numbers - new and old. It will also be possible to see how the routes have been renamed on any transport map in the center.
At the same time, we are improving the traffic patterns of cars and ground transport so that they do not interfere with each other.
We've also straightened out some of the old routes: while previously they had to make loops and go along one-way streets, now there's nothing stopping them from going down the same street in both directions. This makes it easier to remember routes and find the right stops. For example, previously bus number 6 went one way along Vozdvizhenka, and in the opposite direction along Gogolevsky Boulevard. There is almost a kilometer walk between these streets. And now the M6 route goes in both directions along the same streets. Direct routes are easier to remember and more convenient to use.
In the area of Dolgorukovskaya and Barrikadnaya streets there is now through traffic through the Garden Ring. Previously, buses lost 15–20 minutes to exit onto Sadovoe, turn around, drive back and continue along the route. Now this detour is not needed, buses go straight through.
What about night routes?
As part of the Magistral, two express trains change: No. 144 and 904. Both depart from Kitay-Gorod and pass through Okhotny Ryad, Teatralnaya Square and Lubyanka. Then the 144th express turns left and goes along Leninsky Prospekt to Teply Stan. Express No. 904 goes right along Leningradsky Prospekt to Mitino.
Night routes will also change slightly. H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 and H6 will be united by a single interchange hub on Slavyanskaya Square, near the Kitay-Gorod metro station. At night, these routes will converge on Slavyanskaya Square so that late passengers can transfer between them and go to the other end of the city. Movement intervals will remain the same - 30 minutes. Other 24-hour routes will remain unchanged.
It's clear with the old ones. Are there any new routes?
One of the new routes is bus A from the Three Station Square to Luzhniki. Now it’s easy to get to the center from the stations, drive along the boulevards and exit onto Komsomolsky Prospekt. And you can go to Sapsan by bus.
Previously, the only way to get to the center from Kazansky, Leningradsky or Yaroslavsky stations was to go down to the metro. Because of this, the Komsomolskaya metro station is the busiest in the city. Now you can use ground transport instead of the metro.
But A is not a completely new route. Since the beginning of the 20th century, Moscow had tram route A, which ran along the Boulevard Ring. The route was changed, moved and shortened many times until 1991, when it was closed. In 1997, the route was restored along the eastern part of the Boulevard Ring - from Kaluzhskaya to Chistye Prudy. Muscovites call this tram route “Annushka”. The new main bus route A runs along the western part of the Boulevard Ring, continuing the traditions of the historical route of the last century.
Another example is the M1 route, which connects Leninsky and Leningradsky Prospekts through the center. You can get on Tverskaya and in 15 minutes find yourself near Gorky Park, or drive further along Leninsky Prospekt and get off at Neskuchny Garden.
Previously, from the north along Tsvetnoy Boulevard it was possible to get only to Trubnaya Square, after which the route was interrupted. If you needed to get to Teatralnaya or Lubyanka, you had to take the metro. Now there is route No. 38: - from Rizhskaya to Neglinnaya, Bolshoi Theater, Lubyanka and Kitai-Gorod without transfers.
Finally, we have restored traffic along Bolshaya Nikitskaya - see route M6 from Nagatinskaya to Polezhaevskaya. Public transport traffic along Neglinnaya has been restored. Some routes that are being launched now have not been operated in Moscow since the 1990s.
How to understand the new route numbering?
Very simple: all renamed routes now contain the letter M: M1, M2, M3 and so on. Routes are numbered in a row from top to bottom counterclockwise:
M1 - along Leningradsky Prospekt;
- M2 - according to Kutuzovsky;
- M3 - along Komsomolsky;
- M4 - according to Leninsky;
- M5 and M6 - according to Warsaw;
- M7 - along Volgogradsky;
- M8 - along the Entuziastov Highway;
- M9 - along Mira Avenue.
We created new stop flags, maps and stencils on the bus especially for the project. At first, the stencils will contain both old and new route numbers.
At each stop in the center there is a traffic map with all the stops.
Why are the new routes faster?
Two reasons: there are more buses on the routes, and the routes themselves have straightened out and almost completely switched to dedicated lanes.
More buses mean shorter intervals and less waiting at stops. The average headway across the entire network is eight minutes, with mainline routes having an average headway at peak times of seven minutes.
Thanks to dedicated lanes, buses and trolleybuses go faster. And since routes no longer have inconvenient detour loops, passengers can get to their desired stop faster.
For example, along the central corridor around the Kremlin, buses will now run along specially designed dedicated lanes in two directions, rather than going around the Kremlin in a circle. Previously, due to one-way traffic, a trip around the Kremlin could take up to half an hour.
Are the stops new too?
Some yes. We are installing 24 new stops in the center of Moscow, 12 of which are located in areas where public transport has not operated since the 90s.
We will also gradually replace old stops with new, more convenient ones.
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More than three dozen new city bus routes are preparing to open this year in Moscow. The plans of the capital's transport workers for the coming months will not let passengers get bored. For many destinations, carriers have yet to be selected and government contracts concluded with them. Mosgortrans will be responsible for the remaining new products.
“New model”: everything according to the old rules?
The largest number of route openings is expected in August-October 2018, when carriers selected based on the results of competitions will be able to begin operating. A little over two years after the auctions for servicing 211 routes, there is a need to close coverage gaps in several more directions. They can be divided into four groups: “working on mistakes”, “new social”, “New Moscow” and “new connections”.
On December 28, 2017, the Moscow Government signed Order No. 763-RP “On concluding long-term government contracts for the provision of transport services to the population on routes for regular transportation of passengers and luggage by road in city traffic.” An additional 8.88 billion rubles have been allocated for these purposes in the next five years. (2018 – 608.53 million rubles, 2019 – 1,723 million rubles, 2020 – 1,762 million rubles, 2021 – 1,747 million rubles, 2022 – 1,820 million rubles and 2023 – RUB 1,220 million). It is precisely these amounts that the State Institution “Transport Organizer” will be able to operate under the leadership of the Moscow Department of Transport, announcing auctions for the right to service new routes.
Like last time, carriers on the routes will work for five years. More precisely, their provision of services should end 2,009 calendar days from the date of conclusion of the government contract. Moreover, they must start the route no later than six months after signing this document and then carry out transportation for 1,826 days. It is planned to compete between carriers for 29 routes, on which 197 buses will operate (145 large, 18 medium and 34 small).
First of all, they decided to “work on the mistakes.” The first five “one route” competitions were announced the very next day after the above-mentioned order was signed - December 29, 2017. The remaining 24 routes were distributed among three competitive proposals announced on January 30, 2018.
The maximum initial price of contracts for all eight purchases announced by the Transportation Organizer in December-January is 7.646 billion rubles. More than a billion rubles allocated under the same order remain “in reserve” for now.
"Work on mistakes"
Not in all directions, after the launch of 211 routes according to the rules and the subsequent cancellation of “minibuses”, it was possible to eliminate the shortage of transport capacity. In some places, the move was to “squeeze” the maximum number of flights from the capabilities of existing contracts (increasing the volume of transportation by 10%). In some places the routes were modified to the point of being moved to other areas of the city, in others Mosgortrans was called in for help. And yet there were areas in which we had to think about opening additional routes. Which, however, in many ways are very reminiscent of the old ones. This group includes seven routes.
- № 324 “Metro station “Park Pobedy” – 2nd Mosfilmovsky Lane” ();
5 small class buses. Opening hours: daily from 6:30 to 23:00. Average traffic intervals during peak hours are 15-20 minutes, at other times up to 30 minutes. Route: st. Barclay, Kutuzovsky Avenue, Bolshaya Dorogomilovskaya Street, 2nd Bryansky Lane. (only to the metro station "Park Pobedy"), pl. Kievsky railway station, Berezhkovskaya embankment, Vorobyovskoye highway, Mosfilmovskaya st., st. Pyryeva.
- № 333 “Fedosino Street – Yugo-Zapadnaya Metro Station” ();
9 large class buses. Opening hours: on weekdays from 5:30 to 0:30, on weekends from 7:00 to 23:30. Average traffic intervals during peak hours are 10 minutes, at other times - 20-30 minutes. Route: st. Sculptor Mukhina, Chobotovskaya st., Borovskoe highway, Ozernaya st., Michurinsky prosp., Nikulinskaya st., st. Pokryshkina, ave. Vernadsky.
- № 449 “Perovo station – Cherkizovskaya metro station” ();
15 large class buses. Opening hours: on weekdays from 5:30 to 0:30, on weekends from 6:30 to 0:30. Average traffic intervals during peak hours are 9 minutes, at other times 15-20 minutes. (in the evening – 30 min.). Route: Kuskovskaya st., st. Plekhanov, Zeleny Ave., Novogireevskaya St., Federative Ave., Svobodny Ave., Bolshoy Kupavensky Ave., 15th Parkovaya St., Shchelkovskoe Highway, Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya St.
- No. 456k“8th microdistrict Mitina – Seryogin Street” ();
9 middle class buses. Opening hours: on weekdays from 6:30 to 23:00, on weekends from 7:00 to 23:30. Average traffic intervals during peak hours are 15 minutes, at other times 20-30 minutes. Route: st. General Beloborodova, Dubravnaya st., Pyatnitskoye highway, Volokolamskoye highway, Leningradsky prospect.
- No. 551k“Veterinary Academy – Semashko Hospital” ();
6 small class buses. Opening hours: daily from 6:00 to 23:00. Average traffic intervals during peak hours are 15 minutes, at other times 20-30 minutes. Route: st. Young Lenintsev, st. Academician Scriabin, Volgogradsky Prospekt; st. Marshal Chuikov and st. Young Lenintsev (only to the Veterinary Academy), Volzhsky Blvd., Krasnodonskaya St., Stavropolskaya St., Novorossiyskaya St., Krasnodarskaya St., Sovkhoznaya St.
- № 580 “Platform Chukhlinka – Samarkand Boulevard” ();
8 small class buses. Opening hours: daily from 5:30 to 23:00. Average traffic intervals during peak hours are 10-12 minutes, at other times 15-30 minutes. Route: st. Konovalova, st. Mikhailova, Yasnopolyanskaya st., 1st Veshnyakovsky Ave., st. Papernika, Ryazansky prospect, st. Vostruhina, st. Khlobystova, Tashkent street, Tashkent lane, Samarkand blvd.
- № 974 “3rd microdistrict of Novokosin - Metro Cherkizovskaya” ().
20 large class buses. Opening hours: on weekdays from 5:30 to 1:30, on weekends from 5:30 to 0:30. Average traffic intervals during peak hours are 7 minutes, at other times 15-20 minutes. (in the evening – 30 min.). Route: st. Nikolay Starostin, Novokosinskaya st., Gorodetskaya st., Nosovikhinskoe highway, Ketcherskaya st., st. Stary Gai, Veshnyakovskaya st., Svobodny prosp., Bolshoi Kupavensky pr., 15th Parkovaya st., Shchelkovskoe highway, Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya st.
Route № 333 prepared to support the route № 330 "Fedosino Street - Yasenevo Metro" on the busiest section from the Novoperedelkino district to the nearest metro station along its route. In addition, it will allow you to get from Novoperedelkino to Yugo-Zapadnaya faster, since it will go straight along Borovskoe Highway without entering the Solntsev microdistricts along Aviatorov, Volynskaya and 50 Letiya Oktyabrya streets.
Route № 324 on the section from 2nd Mosfilmovsky Lane to Kievsky Station will relieve congestion on the route № 320 , which here completely coincides along the route, being its semi-express version. However, the new route will be longer, reaching the Park Pobedy metro station.
Route № 580 will combine two problem areas served by routes No. 51k And 410 .
The letter "k" in the route number No. 456k It’s not deceiving – it’s really just a shortened version of the route № 456 (from the Mitino area to the middle of Leningradsky Prospekt). Route No. 551k not so simple: it will strengthen the route № 551 on the middle section of the route, but its ends are located somewhat away from the line of the “old” route.
Two new routes ( №№ 449 And 974 ) until the summer of 2016, they worked quite successfully in a different format - as “minibuses” No. 249m And 274m. Unfortunately for the passengers, they went to the “pilot district” of Izmailovo, in which, during the implementation of transport reform, they tried to make do with Mosgortrans alone, at a minimum compensating for the unique transport connections not served by it.
Routes No. 324, 333, 456k, 551k, 580 are additions to routes No. 51k, 320, 330, 410, 456, 551. In order to put things in order with transportation in the areas where they travel together, it would be nice to re-calculate the need for transportation in 2021 (after the expiration of the contracts concluded in 2015-2016) and revise the routes. But new contracts are also planned to be concluded for the “traditional” five years. This means that after three years, contractual obligations will not allow us to create optimal routes from scratch.
"New social"
Several routes with sometimes intricate routes will be opened to connect local residents with social facilities (clinics, public service centers and others). They will continue the line " WITH“-routes, of which there are already 12 after last year’s changes, and by the end of this year there will be at least one and a half times more. The number of buses provided for them should be enough to ensure “social” traffic intervals - every 20-30 minutes.
- No. C13"St. Novatorov - St. Innovators" ();
2 large class buses. Opening hours: daily from 7:00 to 20:30. Average movement intervals are 30 minutes. Route: one-way ring – st. Novatorov, st. Obrucheva, st. Academician Volgina, st. Miklouho-Maklaya, st. Academician Oparin, st. Samory Machel, Leninsky Prospekt, st. Innovators.
- No. S14"Etc. Karamzin - MFC Tyoply Stan" ();
3 large class buses. Opening hours: on weekdays from 7:00 to 21:00, on weekends from 8:00 to 20:00. Average movement intervals are 30 minutes. Route: st. Inessa Armand, Golubinskaya st., st. Paustovsky, Litovsky Blvd., st. Rokotova, Solovyiny Ave.; Sevastopol Ave. (only from Karamzin Ave.), st. Aivazovsky, Tarusskaya st. (back – Yasnogorskaya st.), Novoyasenevsky prosp., st. Teply Stan, st. Academician Varga.
- No. C15"St. Losinoostrovskaya - MFC Yaroslavsky" ();
7 large class buses. Opening hours: on weekdays from 6:00 to 23:00, on weekends from 7:00 to 22:00. Average traffic intervals during peak hours are 20 minutes, at other times up to 30 minutes. Route: Anadyrsky Ave., Minusinskaya St., st. Comintern, st. Menzhinsky, st. Pilot Babushkina (only from Losinoostrovskaya station), Pechorskaya st., Yeniseiskaya st., st. Menzhinsky, Shokalsky Ave., Zarevy Ave., Shirokaya St., Ostashkovskaya St., MKAD, Yaroslavskoe Highway (also back along Prokhodchikov St. and Roterta St.), Malyginsky Ave., st. Prokhodchikov (back also along the Yaroslavl highway).
- No. S16“9th microdistrict of Kozhukhov - Kosinskaya factory” ();
4 large class buses. Opening hours: on weekdays from 6:00 to 21:00, on weekends from 7:00 to 21:00. Average traffic intervals during peak hours are 20 minutes, at other times - up to 30 minutes. Route: Lukhmanovskaya st., st. Rudnyovka, Saltykovskaya st., Svyatoozerskaya st., Lukhmanovskaya st., Kosinskoe highway, Saltykovskaya st., Kaskadnaya st., 4th Poselkovy Ave., Zlatoustovskaya st., st. Sverdlova, st. Mikhelson (back - Leninogorskaya St.), Poselkovaya St., Bolshaya Kosinskaya St.
- No. C17“Kravchenko Street – Ochakovo Station” ();
7 large class buses. Opening hours: daily from 7:00 to 21:30. Average movement intervals: 15-20 minutes. Route: ave. Vernadsky (return via Kravchenko St.), st. Udaltsova, st. Koshtoyantsa, Olympic Village Ave., Nikulinsky Ave., st. Academician Anokhin, st. Pokryshkina, Nikulinskaya st., Projected passage 1980, Bolshaya Ochakovskaya st., st. Lobachevsky, Aminevskoe highway, Ochakovskoe highway, Stroykombinat Ave.
Another “social” route will open in New Moscow.
"New Moscow"
The road infrastructure received from the Moscow region turned out to be so cumbersome and lagging behind the capital’s standards that even after five years they did not manage to improve it everywhere. If passenger cars have gotten the hang of driving on roads even with a temporary crushed stone surface, then regular bus services cannot be launched in such conditions.
This was partly the reason why city “minibuses” remained in New Moscow - after they were canceled in “old Moscow” and Zelenograd. And residents of the villages of Evseevo and Kuvekino still remember how in “regional” times there was a “minibus” from them to Vatutinki and the Teply Stan metro station. As it turned out later, she worked without the necessary permits. But it was not possible to organize a new route “according to all the rules”: it is necessary to reconstruct and expand several kilometers of a road that is not the most strategically important. Nothing will change in the transport accessibility of these villages in 2018. But others will be lucky.
For the first time in history, several settlements in the Ryazanovskoye settlement will receive bus service at once. Buses will also reach Promyshlennaya Street on the outskirts of Troitsk, as well as to the nearby village of Puchkovo. The village of Shelomovo will receive connections with the village of Kyiv and the stations Bekasovo-1 and Bekasovo-Sortirovochnoe. Commercial minibuses connecting the Yugo-Zapadnaya metro station, Moskovsky, village. Mosrentgen and Yuzhnoye Butovo with the MEGA Teply Stan shopping center will be replaced by large-class buses operating according to the approved city tariff menu.
- № 301 "Promyshlennaya st. – Troitsk (Shopping center)” ();
4 large class buses. Opening hours: daily from 6:00 to 22:30. Average traffic intervals during peak hours are 20 minutes, at other times up to 30 minutes. Route: Promyshlennaya St., Kvantovaya St., Krasnaya Pakhra, Kaluzhskoe Highway, Fizicheskaya St., Solnechnaya St., Oktyabrsky Prospekt, Bolshaya Oktyabrskaya St., Akademicheskaya Sq.
- № 302 “Troitsk (microdistrict “B”) – Puchkovo” ();
2 small class buses. Opening hours: daily from 5:30 to 0:00. Average traffic intervals during peak hours are 15 minutes, at other times up to 30 minutes. Route: st. Police Colonel Kurochkin, p. Puchkovo, Troitskaya st.
- № 305 “Rassudovo – Zverevo station” ();
4 middle class buses. Opening hours: daily from 5:30 to 23:30. Average movement intervals are 20-30 minutes. Route: village. Rassudovo, st. General Donskov.
- № 306 “Bekasovo-1 station – Bekasovo-Sortirovochnaya station” ();
3 small class buses. Opening hours: daily from 5:30 to 23:00. Average traffic intervals during peak hours are 15 minutes, at other times up to 30 minutes. Route: Bekasovskaya st., Kyiv highway, village. Kyiv, Kyiv highway, Central st., Fevralskaya st., Central st.
- № 307 “Krekshino state farm village - Kokoshkino station” ();
4 small class buses. Opening hours: on weekdays from 5:30 to 23:30, on weekends from 6:30 to 23:30. Average traffic intervals during peak hours are 20 minutes, at other times 30-60 minutes. Route: village. state farm Krekshino, Ozernaya st., village. Krekshino, Borovskoe highway, Zheleznodorozhnaya st.
- № 308 “Krekshino state farm village - Krekshino station” ();
2 small class buses. Opening hours: on weekdays from 6:30 to 23:30, on weekends from 7:00 to 23:00. Average traffic intervals during peak hours are 15 minutes, at other times 20-30 minutes. Route: village. state farm Krekshino, Ozernaya st., 1st Zheleznodorozhnaya st.
- № 446 “MEGA Teply Stan shopping center – Solnechnaya st., 13” ();
10 large class buses. Opening hours: from 6:30 to 0:00. Average movement intervals are 15-30 minutes. Route: MEGA Teply Stan shopping center, Projected passage 139, st. Hero of Russia Solomatina, Institutsky Ave., st. Admiral Kornilova, Kyiv highway, Projected passage 5258, Projected passage 5259, Projected passage 5562, Valuevskoe highway, st. Khabarova (back also Raduzhnaya St. and Raduzhny Ave.), Solnechnaya St.
- № 485
14 large class buses. Opening hours: on weekdays from 5:30 to 1:00, on weekends from 5:30 to 0:30. Average traffic intervals during peak hours are 10 minutes, at other times 12-30 minutes. Route: MEGA Teply Stan shopping center, Projected passage 139, pos. Mosrentgen, Projected passage 139, st. Hero of Russia Solomatina, Institutsky pr., Proektiruemy proezd 133, Proektiruemy proezd 134, st. Admiral Kornilov, Kyiv highway, Leninsky prosp., prosp. Vernadsky.
- № 509 “Station Shcherbinka – Erino” ();
4 small class buses. Opening hours: on weekdays from 6:00 to 23:00, on weekends from 6:00 to 0:00. Average traffic intervals during peak hours are 30 minutes, at other times 60 minutes. Route: Butovo deadlock, Novostroevskaya st., st. Stepana Erzi, Staronikolskaya st., Ostafevskoe highway, Troitskaya st., Ryazanovskoe highway, pos. Factories named after 1 May, Mostovskoye, Razdolie, Armazovo, Rybino, Central St., pos. Erino.
- No. 509k“Station Shcherbinka – Mostovskoye” ();
2 middle class buses. Opening hours: on weekdays from 6:00 to 22:00, on weekends from 6:30 to 21:30. Average traffic intervals during peak hours are 30 minutes, at other times 60 minutes. Route: Butovo deadlock, Novostroevskaya st., st. Stepana Erzi, Staronikolskaya st., Ostafevskoe highway, Troitskaya st., Ryazanovskoe highway, pos. Factories named after 1 May, Mostovskoye.
- № 953 "MEGA Teply Stan - Metro "Yugo-Zapadnaya"" ();
6 large class buses. Opening hours: weekdays from 6:30 to 1:00. Average traffic intervals are 10-12 minutes, in the early morning and late evening hours 20-30 minutes. Route: MEGA Teply Stan shopping center, MKAD, Leninsky prosp., prosp. Vernadsky.
- № 967 “MEGA Teply Stan shopping center – Butovskie Alley microdistrict” ();
11 large class buses. Opening hours: daily from 5:00 to 0:00. Average traffic intervals are 12 minutes, in the early morning and late evening hours 20-30 minutes. Route: MEGA Teply Stan shopping center, MKAD, Kulikovskaya st. (back – Proektiruemyi proezd 680), st. Polyany, Skobelevskaya st., blvd. Admiral Ushakova, Venevskaya st., Yuzhnobutovskaya st. (back also Proektiruemy Proezd 875 and Admiral Lazarev St.), Buninskaya Alley, st. Admiral Lazarev, Proektiruemy proezd 653, st. Academician Semenova, Proektiruemy proezd 941, st. Alexandra Monakhova.
- No. S18“Novovatutinsky prospect. – Novovatutinsky Prospekt.”().
3 middle class buses. Opening hours: daily from 6:30 to 22:00, on weekends until 21:00. Average traffic intervals during peak hours are 20 minutes, at other times 30 minutes. Route: one-way ring – Novovatutinsky Prospect, Charoitovaya St., Kaluzhskoe Highway, Ofitserskaya St., st. Dmitry Ryabinkin, 1st Vatutinskaya st., Kaluga highway, Charoitovaya st., Novovatutinsky prosp.
Along the route No. S18 bus traffic was organized before the competition, extending the route for this purpose № 891 "Metro station "Teply Stan" - Novovatutinsky Avenue." Along its old route, some buses continued to operate under No. 891k. After opening the route No. S18 route № 891 will be able to straighten, connecting the village. Vatutinki with “Tyoply Stan” without entering the microdistrict. New Vatutinki.
Apparently, simultaneously with the opening of routes in New Moscow at regular rates №№ 306, 307, 308, 446, 485, 953, 967 similar “minibuses” will stop operating №№ 22, 50, 46, 1011, 953, 967 . Commercial carriers will be “asked” to leave directions that are duplicated by existing Mosgortrans routes, - №№ 304, 398, 433, 504, 512, 521, 531, 577, 590, 592, 600, 804, 882, 887, 895, 952, 985 .
The fate of the routes is less clear №№ 53, 522, 548, 885, 894 and №№ 1, 2, 4 in the area of Shcherbinka station, because they are not repeated by either existing or planned city Moscow routes at regulated tariffs.
New bundles
Several more new routes are responsible for the formation of additional transport connections in “old Moscow”.
- № 300 "Belovezhskaya st. – Metro “Petrovsko-Razumovskaya”” ();
20 large class buses. Opening hours: on weekdays from 5:30 to 0:30, on weekends from 6:30 to 0:30. Average traffic intervals during peak hours are 8 minutes, at other times 15-20 minutes. (late evening – 30 min.). Route: Belovezhskaya st., st. Tolbukhina, Zaporozhskaya st., st. Kubinka, st. Bozhenko, Yartsevskaya st., Krylatskaya st., st. Nizhniye Mnevniki, st. People's Militia, st. Alabyan, Bolshaya Akademicheskaya st., st. Lines of the Oktyabrskaya Railway (back also – Lokomotivny Ave.).
- № 325 “Matveevskoye – Metro “Ramenki”” ();
4 large class buses. Opening hours: on weekdays from 6:00 to 23:00, on weekends from 7:00 to 22:00. Average traffic intervals during peak hours are 15 minutes, at other times - 20-30 minutes. Route: Veernaya st., Matveevskaya st., Aminevskoe highway, st. Lobachevsky, Michurinsky Avenue.
- № 327 "Metro station "Rokossovsky Boulevard" - Metro "Rokossovsky Boulevard"" ();
3 large class buses. Opening hours: daily from 7:00 to 21:30. Average traffic intervals during peak hours are 15 minutes, at other times - 20 minutes. Route: one-way ring – Ivanteevskaya st., Otkrytoe shosse, Losinoostrovskaya st., Permskaya st., Losinoostrovskaya st., Otkrytoe shosse, Ivanteevskaya st.
- № 523 “5th microdistrict of Northern Butovo - Butovo Station” ();
6 large class buses. Opening hours: on weekdays from 5:30 to 0:00, on weekends from 6:00 to 0:00. Average traffic intervals during peak hours are 12 minutes, at other times 20-30 minutes. Route: Starobitsevskaya st., Starokachalovskaya st., blvd. Dmitry Donskoy, st. Academician Glushko, st. Polyany, Skobelevskaya st.; Venevskaya st. (only from the 5th microdistrict of Northern Butovo), Projected passage 666, 1st Mirgorodsky lane.
Using a route № 327 The industrial zone on Permskaya Street will finally receive direct communication with the nearest metro station, which opened more than a quarter of a century ago. The Northern and Southern Butovo districts will be connected by another route - № 523 , providing transportation to the Butovo station, through which one of the first two lines will pass. Route № 300 together with the converted one, it will provide direct communication along most of the North-Western Expressway, including the Alabyano-Baltic Tunnel. Thanks to the route № 325 the capital's Matveevskoye district will receive a connection with the Ramenki metro station, which opened last year.
The metro is still being dug, but the routes have already been drawn
The number of Moscow metro stations will definitely increase this year. But information about changes to public transport routes will be made public closer to the opening dates of new lines. However, two changes in the operation of city routes are planned taking into account the unfinished Okruzhnaya metro station, the launch of which, according to optimistic forecasts, will happen in the spring of this year.
Route No. 24k“VDNKh Hotels – Maryina Roshcha Metro” in the direction of Maryina Roshcha will depart from the hotels along the designed passage 1564A and Gostinichny Proezd, where the Okruzhnaya Metro stop is planned, then leaving on Gostinichnaya Street and then on its usual route.
And the bus route No. 677k will not remain at the metro stations and the Vladykino MCC, having been reduced to the Okruzhnaya station. However, the turn will be made along a new route - through Lokomotivny Ave., Station St., Gostinichny Ave., Gostinichnaya St., Stantsionnaya St. with the introduction of the “Metro Okruzhnaya” stop.
It is possible that a change in the trolleybus route will be timed to coincide with the opening of the metro. № 36 “VDNKh (southern entrance) – Beskudnikovsky Lane.” Its route should go along Dmitrovskoye Shosse to the final stop “Dmitrovskoye Shosse, 155”. At the same time, he will leave Seligerskaya Street and Beskudnikovsky Lane with the boulevard. At the end of the year, it is planned to produce electric buses in this direction, and the infrastructure for its service is being prepared taking into account the new route.
The first electric bus routes
Started by Mosgortrans, with a positive pace of developments, should culminate in the appearance of the first passenger lines serviced entirely by a new type of rolling stock. According to the calendar schedule for the delivery of new equipment, serial samples should arrive in Moscow in September-November 2018, and the total number of operating electric buses should reach 300 units by the end of the year.
In the tender documentation you can find the numbers of 20 routes that are going to be served by electric buses as early as 2018. Taking into account their routes, the installation locations of charging stations for ultra-fast charging have been determined.
Eight of these routes are now trolleybus routes:
- № 7 "Metro station "Park Pobedy" - Cinema "Udarnik"";
- No. 34k"St. Kravchenko - Kyiv railway station";
- № 36 “VDNH (southern) – Dmitrovskoe highway, 155”;
- № 42 "Rizhsky Station - Metro Dynamo";
- № 73
- № 76 "Kholmogorskaya st. – Metro "VDNKh";
- № 80 “6th microdistrict Bibireva – Ostashkovskaya street”;
- № 83 "Ussuriyskaya st. – Metro "Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad"".
Another twelve are bus services, but four of them were previously served by trolleybuses:
- No. T25"Ave. Budyonny - Metro "Lubyanka"";
- № 31 "Ostashkovskaya st. – Metro "Bibirevo";
- № 33 “VDNKh (southern) – Vladykino metro station”;
- № 53 "Metro station "Bibirevo" - Metro station "Vladykino"";
- No. T88"Ave. Budyonny - Komsomolskaya Square";
- № 107 “Metro station “Filyovsky Park” – Platf. Matveevskaya";
- № 649 “Yasny Ave. – Ostashkovskaya St.”;
- № 705 "Abramtsevskaya st. - Metro "Bibirevo";
- № 778 “Rizhsky Station – Spartakovskaya Square”;
- № 832 "Krylatskoye - Sports Center "Krylatskoye"";
- B"Garden Ring" (inner);
- B"Garden Ring" (outer).
Trolleybuses or buses?
The Moscow Department of Transport has approved changes to the register of city regular transport routes, according to which trolleybus services should be replaced by bus services on several routes. There is no urgent technical need for this, because the installation of the contact network, provided for by the reconstruction project, continues on Tverskaya Zastava Square.
In addition to the routes extended at the beginning of autumn, trolleybus routes №№ 20 "Serebryany Bor - Belorussky Station" 70 "Bratsevo - Belorussky Station" 82 "MPS Hospital - Belorussky Station" and 56 “Bazovskaya Street – 2nd Lesnoy Lane” will also be able to reach Tverskaya Zastava without changing the mode of transport. The restored contact network will also allow the resumption of trolleybus service on the route № 18 . However, it is still unknown whether trolleybuses will travel along Tverskaya Zastava.
The feasibility of extending the route № 82 to Tverskaya Zastava generally raises questions. At one time, it was organized as a replacement for the tram line removed from Leningradsky Prospekt and 1st Botkinsky Proezd. Due to traffic conditions, the connection between the area adjacent to the Botkin Hospital and Leningradsky Prospekt is only possible with an extended U-turn under the Tverskoy overpass. Extending this trip by an extra kilometer with several traffic light objects on the way will only worsen the conditions for transporting passengers for which the route was created at one time. At the same time, the connection between Tverskaya Zastava and Leningradsky Prospekt and the beginning of Volokolamsk Highway is provided by routes No. m1, N1, 456, 904, 904k, to which the route can also join No. 70 (T70).
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The bus route should be operational approximately in April. № 216 "Luzhniki Stadium (south) - Krasnopresnenskaya metro station." Its route will pass along the embankments of the Moscow River, reconstructed in 2017, taking into account the organization of regular passenger service. Buses will travel along Novoluzhnetsky Prospekt, Luzhnetskaya and Frunzenskaya embankments, st. Khamovnichesky Val, Luzhnetsky and Novodevichy Ave., Savvinskaya, Rostovskaya, Smolenskaya and Krasnopresnenskaya embankments, pl. Free Russia, Konyushkovskaya st. and st. Zamorenova. Four medium and large class buses are planned to operate on the route. Passengers will be received by new stops “Novodevichy Cemetery”, “Novodevichy Monastery”, “Novodevichy Prospect”, “Savvinskaya Embankment”, “Moskovsky Silk”, “2nd Lane”. Workers", "Bogdan Khmelnitsky Bridge", "Smolenskaya Embankment" and "Novoarbatsky Bridge".
Even more routes for the MCC
In the coming weeks, it is likely that the issue of transporting passengers to the Likhobory MCC station will be settled. The new access road (Projected Passage No. 490) was in a high degree of readiness back in the fall of 2016. However, until now the movement of buses along it has not been organized. In the year and a half that has passed since the inclusion of bus routes to the Likhobory station in the city register, one of them, without working even a day, managed to change its number. "Virtual" route No. 123k“Metro station “Petrovsko-Razumovskaya” – St. Likhobory" assigned № 323 , under which he will start working. It will take place along Lokomotivny Prospekt, st. Lines of the Oktyabrskaya Railway, Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street, 4th Novomikhalkovsky Ave. and Projected Passage No. 490.
From the “NAMI” stop you should move to the Likhobory station and the final stops of bus routes №№ 22 "St. March 8 – NAMI” and 139 "Metro station "Vodny Stadion" - NAMI."
The bus route was restored on December 26, 2017 after the opening of the reconstructed White Stone overpass № 75 still does not call at the stop “Belokamennaya Station” provided by the register between the stops “Training Center of the Ministry of Health” and “Yauzskaya Alleya”. Unlike Likhobor, there are no positive developments in the construction of an access road to the MCC station.
One can only guess whether another “frozen” route connected to the MCC will start operating this year - № 47 "Metro "Technopark" - ZIL station." Road construction in the area of the ZIL built-up territory is being carried out quite actively. But whether everything will be ready to launch buses here, only time will tell.
Two more routes long ago approved by the Moscow Department of Transport could improve communication with the MCC stations Rokossovsky Boulevard and Lokomotiv. Their non-operation can only be explained by organizational reasons of the carrier - for example, a shortage of buses or drivers. The road conditions along their routes are not satisfactory: any of the roads they use are already used by other public transport.
The first is the route № 783 "Kamchatskaya street - Metro "Rokossovsky Boulevard"". Its route will pass along Khabarovskaya, Baikalskaya and Irkutskaya streets, 2nd Irtyshsky passage, Montazhnaya street, st. Nikolai Khimushin, Tagilskaya st., Otkrytomu sh. and Ivanteevskaya st. 10 large class Mosgortrans State Unitary Enterprise buses should operate here.
The second is a semi-express bus route № 941 “Kamchatskaya Street - Metro “Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad””, which is planned to run along Khabarovskaya Street, Shchelkovsky Highway. and Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya street. with intermediate stops “Khabarovskaya Street, 20”, “Altaiskaya Street”, “Baikalskaya Street”, “Khabarovskaya Street”, “Metro Shchelkovskaya”, “Kaloshino”, “PO Sokol”, “Metro Cherkizovskaya” and "Khalturinskaya street". 16 Mosgortrans buses of large and extra large classes should be on the route.
From Tverskaya Zastava - to Kurkino
The bus route to Tverskaya Zastava was extended last year № 905 according to previously approved plans, it should extend beyond the Moscow Ring Road. Instead of the terminal station that was once built “in an open field” in the area of the 75th kilometer of the Moscow Ring Road, it will reach the residential area of Kurkino. The new section of the route will run along Leningradskoye Highway, MKAD, Proektiruemye Proezd No. 6699, Novokurkinskoye Highway. and Sokolovo-Meshcherskaya st. Here the semi-express route will follow all stops along the route - while on Leningradskoye Shosse and Leningradsky Prospekt buses pick up and drop off passengers only at junction stops.
How long can you expect changes?
For twenty-nine new routes on which competitions are currently being held, carriers have not yet been identified, and this information is not included in the city register of routes. That is why passengers cannot use them yet. It is necessary to wait for the completion of the competitive selection, the conclusion of the government contract and the fulfillment of the preparatory conditions provided for by it.
The situation is different with approved routes for which the carrier has long been known, and this is the State Unitary Enterprise Mosgortrans. A whole group of routes either operate along old routes that the registry has already abandoned, or do not operate at all (routes №№ 783, 941 ).
Back in 2016, changes to bus routes were adopted №№ 76 And 803 in the area of the VDNKh metro station, which would make it possible to bring the stops closer to the vestibule of the VDNH metro station. Instead of the final station “VDNKh (northern)”, the register of routes provides for them a new terminal on Kosmonavtov Street. And the route includes Ostankino Passage and Mira Avenue instead of Prodolny Proezd. In fact, for almost two years now, Mosgortrans has been ignoring the routes established by the register, and passengers are not receiving the promised and desired service on many routes.
Meanwhile, the route registry should reflect current information on existing regular transportation routes. From the moment the changes are approved (or the date of entry into force of the changes is announced), carriers are required to work according to the new parameters. And to indicate intentions and long-term plans, there is the concept of planning documents for regular transportation. With its help, you can resolve all possible conflicts between long-term plans and the current route network, indicating the timing of planned changes and the necessary procedures for the start of transportation.
However, Moscow, unlike other regions, has not yet mastered such a format. As a result, it is extremely difficult to figure out where the carriers themselves drive in violation of the routes, working according to old schemes, and where, on the contrary, the bold plans of the Department are not supported by the necessary road conditions. Only one thing remains clear: passengers on many routes do not have the opportunity to use routes that exist only “on paper.”
Among the Moscow tram routes, the registry of city routes also plans changes, about which TR. ru. The exact dates have not yet been announced, and in general it is unknown whether they will fall in 2018.
The first prototypes of the Magistral project began to be created in Moscow back in 2012. The city then ordered a study of the transport system, and then it was proposed to launch routes through the city center and divide them into different categories. Then the development company was told that nothing would come of this idea, co-chairman of the interregional public movement “City and Transport” Alexander Morozov, who worked on that project, tells Gazeta.Ru.
Four years later the situation has changed. The first phase of routes will be launched in October 2016, and the last phase of the Magistral network will be launched in 2017, the Department of Transport reported.
There will be practically no new routes within the project: the majority are, to one degree or another, modified existing flights.
There are two main innovations. Firstly,
all routes will pass through the center, even if they previously crossed the border of the Central Administrative District tangentially.
And secondly, three categories of routes are introduced: mainline, regional and social.
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There are only seventeen main routes, ten of them are designated by the letter M and a serial number. For at least the first two months after launch, such buses will run with two numbers, new and old, on the basis of which the main route was invented. Trunk routes are the longest, they leave the outlying areas in one part of Moscow, cross the center and go to residential areas in another part of the city. For example, along the route “m1” (formerly T1) it will be possible to get from Kravchenko Street along Leninsky Prospekt through Tverskaya and Leningradsky Prospekt to the Ministry of Railways hospital. The M3 route will allow you to get from Luzhniki to Semenovskaya metro station via Prechistenka and Pokrovka. Trolleybus routes No. 33, 62 and 84 were combined into the M4 route, which will now run from the Udarnik cinema to Ozernaya Street in the south-west of the city.
Main routes will run more often, every 5-10 minutes, and should become a full-fledged alternative to the metro. For nine main routes, a unique interchange hub will be organized on Lubyanka Square; for some buses this stop will be the final stop, and for others it will be in the middle of the route.
In addition, three trams, two express routes, one “letter” bus and one “letter” trolleybus can be considered mainline in fact, but not in number. The main trams are route “A” (from Chistye Prudy to Oktyabrskaya), No. 3 (from Chistye Prudy to Balaklavsky Prospekt) and No. 39 (from the same Chistye Prudy to the University).
Two express routes (No. 144 and No. 904) have been slightly modified. Both will depart from Kitay-Gorod and pass through Okhotny Ryad, Teatralnaya Square and Lubyanka. Next, No. 144 follows Leninsky Prospect to Teply Stan, and No. 904 follows Leningradsky Prospect to Mitino. As for the “letter” routes, then
We are talking primarily about the famous “Bukashka” - trolleybus “B”, which will continue to run along the usual route along the Garden Ring.
The new route of bus “A” is, in fact, a well-forgotten old one; it partially repeats the tram route that existed in Moscow at the beginning of the twentieth century. From October 8, it will run from the Three Station Square to the Luzhniki Stadium, covering the western part of the Boulevard Ring from Trubnaya Square to Kropotkinskaya. The eastern part of the boulevards, as mentioned above, will be “responsible” for tram “A”.
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Regional routes are not as popular among passengers as main routes, so they will run a little less frequently, once every 10-15 minutes. As the Department of Transport told Gazeta.Ru, the main difference between regional routes and main routes lies in intervals. Otherwise, district routes will follow their own path along central streets in the same way, but their length will be shorter than the main ones. Eight trolleybus and seven bus routes received the regional category; they will be indicated by blue signs.
Their numbers will not change, so there is no need to remember new ones, but some of the streets they follow will be different.
This is done so that the transport does not make unnecessary loops and goes to the goal as quickly as possible.
If you decide to take a ride, for example, on the regional route of trolleybus No. 3, which previously ran from Samotechnaya Square to Milashenkova Street, then you will need to board it at the Mayakovskaya metro station. Route "t15", as before, will help you get from Luzhnetsky passage through "Kropotkinskaya" along the Boulevard Ring to the Maryina Roshcha metro station, and then to the southern exit of the VDNKh metro station. And, let’s say, bus 156 will take you from Nagatinsky Zaton through Andropov Avenue and Taganskaya to Kotelnicheskaya Embankment.
Social routes run even less often than district routes. But their main task is not to deliver passengers to the center as quickly as possible, but to go around the maximum number of socially significant places along the way, that is, clinics, MFCs, government offices, social services, and so on. Social routes, indicated in pink, will run every 20-30 minutes.
Like mainline and regional routes, social buses will either call into the center from residential areas or run directly through the central part of Moscow.
For example, bus No. 64 will travel from the Luzhniki Stadium through the Garden Ring and Smolenskaya metro station to Peschanaya Square. And, let’s say, route “K” will follow the ring from Okhotny Ryad through Lubyanka, Kitay-gorod, Raushskaya embankment, the Udarnik cinema and the Lenin Library.
Night routes will remain virtually unchanged, except that H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 and H6 will now stop in one place - on Slavyanskaya Square near the Kitay-Gorod metro station. The rest of the night routes will remain the same as before, as well as their service interval - once every 30 minutes.
Dedicated striped flight
The mayor's office expects that the launch of the Magistral project will increase the popularity of ground public transport and relieve the traditionally packed central metro stations. Passengers will save up to 30% of travel time, Alina Bisembaeva, deputy head of the transport department, told Gazeta.Ru. “There will be regularly running transport in the city center, which will enable residents of the Central District and passengers who work in the center to get to their destination without wasting time on the road to the metro, going underground and transfers between lines,” she added. Optimization and straightening of routes will reduce the average headway on central routes by more than half.
To prevent ground transport from getting stuck in traffic jams, dedicated lanes will be opened for them where necessary.
The Department of Transport assures that the traffic management scheme is designed in such a way that delays for private cars are minimal due to this.
But they don’t hide how the city’s priorities are actually distributed. “73% of citizens moving around the city use public transport. And one of the most important priorities in our work is to ensure comfortable movement of public transport,” the department told Gazeta.Ru.
Experts believe that the organization of additional “dedicated lanes” will not lead to a significant increase in traffic jams - they simply will have nowhere to form, especially since in recent years many streets in the center of Moscow have already been greatly narrowed. “The wider the roadways become, the more motorists decide to drive on these roads. Thus, no matter how you widen the roads, they will be filled to capacity. To accommodate all motorists, 60% must be paved, but this is impossible. When the street narrows, including due to dedicated lanes, motorists quickly abandon personal transport in favor of public transport,” says Morozov from City and Transport.
Alexander Chekmarev, an expert at the Probok.net organization, adds that
There are traffic jams even now, “it’s just that all vehicles are usually stuck in them, but after the project is launched, only personal vehicles will be stuck, while buses will be able to pass.”
He also noted that there is no need to move around the center of Moscow by personal transport: “It is difficult to find a parking space, you constantly have to stand in traffic jams, so perhaps motorists themselves will switch to public transport and there will be less traffic jams.” And with the launch of the project, public transport will be launched where there has been no service in recent years, for example, in the southern part of Petrovka.
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However, the project also has a number of disadvantages. One of the main ones is that
the traffic pattern has been significantly redrawn, and passengers will now have to get used to new numbers, new intervals and new routes,
no matter how convenient they turned out to be in the end. They promise to post new diagrams with detailed explanations at bus stops, but several months of confusion are almost certainly guaranteed.
“Routes with the same numbers will appear: with the letter “M” and without the letter “M”. For example, there will be bus No. 4 and No. M4. The numbering system needs to be simplified, otherwise people will get confused. “I would suggest leaving the continuous numbering: similar routes should retain the same numbers,” Kirill Yankov, Chairman of the Russian Passengers Union, explained to Gazeta.Ru. — In addition, it would be better if each ground transport route in Moscow was designated by one unique number. Now there are no more than a thousand routes in the city, and the numbers should be enough for each of them.”
At the same time, Alexander Morozov, on the contrary, believes that it is correct to designate routes with both letters and numbers. “This way you can immediately understand whether a bus runs frequently on this route or not, that is, the passenger is confident in the regularity of buses, just like in metro trains. A similar numbering system has been introduced, for example, in New York and Berlin. Moreover
Berliners know the bus system by heart, just as Muscovites know the metro map,”
- Morozov noted.
According to the expert, until now, while the routes in Moscow were only numbered, people did not understand how often they go. “In addition, the traffic pattern itself was a “pasta network”: the route could go along the avenue, and then dive into some courtyards and disappear. Traffic in the city center was completely destroyed under Luzhkov when one-way traffic around the Kremlin was introduced. “Finally, Moscow has come to the point of creating an oncoming lane on Okhotny Ryad,” he added.
Yankov from the Union of Passengers agrees that Magistral is a major step forward for urban transport, but is convinced of the need to further improve the system. “Fewer routes should end in the center, on Lubyanskaya and Slavyanskaya squares, and more routes should be pulled through the center. It’s unlikely that anyone will travel by bus with a transfer through the center; the metro is better suited for this,” says the expert. — It is also worth launching direct buses that travel on routes other than the metro. For example, New Arbat and Prospekt Mira could be connected by one route, given that there is no direct transfer from the orange metro line to the blue one. This route would look very right.”
Lubyanka is preparing for the assault
The potential demand for the new system among passengers also raises questions. Of course, this is what the mayor’s office wants to achieve, but will the new transport network withstand the load and will the situation repeat itself when, after the reform of minibuses, legal buses are often jammed to capacity? Additional buses, trolleybuses and trams will be launched specifically for Magistral, a total of 370 vehicles. “After the launch of the route network, we will constantly monitor the congestion of routes and rolling stock,” the transport department said.
Another controversial issue is the organization of “day” and “night” transfer hubs on Lubyanskaya and Slavyansky squares. However, the Department of Transport is confident that the infrastructure will cope with passenger traffic. “There are quite a lot of transport hubs in the city, the daily passenger flow of which is 100 thousand or more people per day. Changes in routes and transport schemes within the framework of the Magistral project will not affect changes in the environment in these areas,” the department emphasized.
However, experts note that Lubyanka, for example, still lacks normal infrastructure for passengers: most of the crossings are underground, the interval of pedestrian traffic lights at zebra crossings is too short, so getting to the bus stop is sometimes much longer than going down to the metro.
“I think that the transfer points on Lubyanskaya and Slavyanskaya squares are a temporary measure,” says Alexander Morozov. — Ideally, the routes should pass through the center, join each other in pairs and form diameters that pass through the center. These diameters must deviate from metro stations to compensate for the lack of subway in certain areas of the center. In any case, the main task now is to restore through traffic through the center.”
Kirill Yankov from the Union of Passengers believes that traffic jams can be avoided if buses are kept on time within 5-10 minutes. “How the movement of personal vehicles on Lubyanskaya and Slavyanskaya squares will change in reality depends on the volume of traffic,” he added. “I think that there will be no crowds of passengers at these large transfer points, because the metro will still remain the main mainline transport.”
A new route network of ground transport “Magistral”, focused on the central areas of the city. The Village understands why the buses in the Central Administrative District were renamed and how to now get, for example, from Rizhsky Station to Lubyanka directly.
Why is Magistral needed?
The Moscow government says that with the launch of the Magistral, ground transport in the city center will run twice as often, 103 buses will be added to the city fleet, and 24 new stops and six dedicated lanes will appear in the Central Administrative District. Thus, 370 buses, trolleybuses and trams will run through the center, and their passenger traffic should increase by 43%. Magistral, according to the mayor's office, will help Muscovites build their routes through the city center only with the help of ground transport. It is worth noting that the innovations will not affect residential areas of Moscow, as well as route “B”.
What will change?
All ground transport routes in the center were divided into four categories: highway, regional, social and night. The main difference of the new system will be the main routes formed on the basis of the old routes. Their trajectory has been adjusted so that buses can cover the same distances in less time. These routes will be the longest and will connect several areas - for example, the territories of the Polezhaevskaya and Nagatinskaya metro stations - through the city center. The interval in the movement of main routes is the smallest - from five to ten minutes, and their numbers contain the letter “M”.
District routes are shorter routes that can take you from a specific area to the Central Administrative District. For example, from Alekseevsky to Trubnaya Square. These buses run every 10 to 15 minutes. Social routes will run less frequently - once every half hour. With them, citizens will be able to get, for example, to the MFC, clinics and passport offices. Night routes will be united by a common transfer hub located next to the Kitay-Gorod metro station. The intervals of their movement will remain the same - twice per hour.
Several popular routes have also been “straightened” in the center. For example, in the area of Dolgorukovskaya and Barrikadnaya streets, through public transport was organized, thanks to which buses will not have to go to the Garden Ring - due to this, the route time was reduced by 10-15 minutes.
And bus number 6, which previously traveled one way along Vozdvizhenka and back along Gogolevsky Boulevard, will now run only along Gogolevsky and will be called “M6”. To give city residents time to get used to the changes, for the next few months there will be signs on buses with both old and new numbers.
What new routes will appear?
Among the new routes is bus “A”, which will go from the square of three stations to Luzhniki through the western part of the Boulevard Ring. There will also be an M1 bus, which will connect Leninsky and Leningradsky Avenues through Tverskaya and Gorky Park. It will also be possible to travel from Rizhsky Station to Lubyanka directly on the new bus No. 38. And the main route “M6” will run from the Nagatinsky district to “Polezhaevskaya” along Bolshaya Nikitskaya, where traffic has recently been restored.
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The Department of Transport created a working group of employees of the mayor’s office and transport organizations, including our company Urbica Design, as well as foreign experts. The team members analyzed large amounts of information, based on this data, identified inefficient routes and developed a new transport network. Then the experts assessed how much more effective the new scheme was than the existing one. For example, it was calculated how far one could get in half an hour by public transport on old routes and using the Magistral network.
When creating new routes, we were guided by data on passenger flows, took into account transfer routes from ground transport to the metro, metro statistics, average speeds of public transport according to GLONASS sensors and other information.
Essentially, we are returning ground transportation to the city center. And due to the opening of new dedicated lanes, in particular on the Kremlin ring, it became possible to optimize routes so that they become convenient for passengers.
Press service of the Moscow Department of Transport:
Moscow needs high-quality and convenient ground transport. Instead of scattered and outdated routes, Muscovites will receive mainline transport running throughout the day at intervals of five to ten minutes, which will connect the most popular points of attraction in the city with the most convenient trajectories.
We expect that in the next two years, surface transport passenger traffic in the city center will increase two to three times and reach one million people per day. This will be possible thanks to a new approach to network planning.
Trunk routes operating at intervals of five to ten minutes throughout the day will receive the designation "M" in front of the number. We have made changes to the route numbering for the convenience of Muscovites. The letter “M” in front of the number will indicate to passengers that this route does not need to wait: it runs at minimal intervals throughout the day. The average headway on central routes will be reduced by more than half. If now in the center of Moscow transport needs to wait on average 16 minutes, then after the introduction of the Magistral and new dedicated lanes, the waiting time will be five to eight minutes.
