Light Metro is at an intermediate position between a conventional subway to which all have long grown accustomed, and light rail transport systems.Like the classical metro, it is completely isolated from the street traffic.Easy subway in Moscow region appeared about 12 years ago, when it was built Butovskaya Line, once successfully linked end portion Kaluga-Riga line with the South Butovo.
What are the main differences?
Line Skytrain, as a rule, is based on the surface or is located on special racks.For convenience hubs in large cities organize in tunnel sections.Lineups Skytrain include a small number of cars (two to five).Skytrain Stations are less length and are located outdoors.
Despite the high cost of such transportation system costs about 4-5 times cheaper than the classic version.That is why the light metro in Moscow - the most promising direction for solving the traffic problems in the capital region.
Future plans
According to the governor of the Moscow region, the creation of a light metro in the Moscow region will soon have to move to a new stage of development.Given the immense strategic importance of design work on the new branch can be implemented during the current year.
embody our plans into reality will not be easy.To date, only the construction of new lines in the general scheme of the development and the concept requires investments of 150 million rubles.
Why do it?
Where will also be implemented this ambitious transport project?The fact is that the construction of a light metro in a short period shifted away from the rather vague perspective directions of development of the Moscow Region in the area of transport projects actually implemented.The Moscow region is already so stuck in endless traffic jams, that the need for the establishment of new urban transport has become very apparent.
necessary to enable secure and easy movement between the various localities of the Moscow region for the period of time strictly normalized.This task is able to handle only light metro in Moscow.Any resident of the Moscow region and are well aware of the endless lines of cars and buses, which in the morning, like a river stream, continuously moving towards the capital.Later in the afternoon the direction is reversed.And everything seemed to be good, but only as long as the slightest failure will not happen.Then the rough river quickly turns into a stagnant swamp, off which is not possible until such time as it is itself not to move.As a result, the road is spent much more time than originally planned, plus a bad mood and unrealized opportunities.
how to navigate within the Moscow region at the moment?
transport specialists have long paid attention to the peculiarities of passenger traffic on the Moscow Ring Road.It turned out that about 40% of cars use this road for the purpose of travel between settlements situated near Moscow.
alternative for establishing normal transportation does not exist.Driving light metro will be built in such a way that the existing drawback was fully replenished.Any transport system should ensure a balance between public transport and private.In other words, every citizen must have the right to choose: to use today's personal car or go for the subway.
What is planned to build in the near future?
light metro line will run parallel to the existing rail connections and thus complement terrestrial infrastructure of railway communication.By and large, no relation to the metro they will not.The first thing to be built light-rail line to Khimki (via the left bank).There will come a light metro in Odintsovo through Nemchinovka.Further plans - access to the train and Pushkino.
all Moscow airports, according to future plans, should contact the new transport lines.Interval trains will then be no more than 7 minutes (with a reduction in the peak hours and 4 minutes).
Geography suburban towns, which will be available the new trucks is very diverse.That's where the light rail will be available: Balashikha, Reutov, Mytishchi, Krasnogorsk, seen.Besides the already mentioned localities, end stops are planned in Kryukovo, Lyubertsy, Domodedovo, Podolsk, Nakhabino, Sheremetyevo.
At the moment the situation is that freight trains are forced to live on some railway lines with passenger trains, local trains and Aeroexpress.The project will allow the Skytrain separate these traffic flows.The challenge is to ensure that any passenger was not tied to any schedule.Arriving at the station at any time, it has to be a hundred percent sure that the length of waiting for the train to Moscow will not exceed 6-7 minutes.
Along with large-scale project, which is planned to be implemented in the Moscow region, in certain regions is planned construction of small transport high-speed transport systems.These areas include the line Shcherbinka - Bobrovo - Drozhzhinov - Rastorguevo, where the population is rapidly reaches 145 thousand people.To achieve the maximum to reduce the burden on the local road system, decided to organize the construction of off-street rapid transit system.
further prospects
Ideally, light rail must play the role of an efficient transport system integrator just outside Moscow region in the transport system of the capital.The ultimate goal of this project should be the construction of the so-called chordates lines that should gradually withdraw into a giant ring rail and cover an entire Moscow region.In a transport line can be easily reached from Domodedovo and Odintsovo Ramenskoye.
In what form will the project "Light Metro - Moscow and Moscow Region region" significantly not yet known.Given that the Russian railways are adapted to any type of transport in the future we can see and the monorail, and railway and high-speed off-street tram.
Is that easy?
Construction of light metro lines pulls a rather large-scale transformations in the circuit arrangement of highways and urban infrastructure.At the very least, it needs to reconstruct the 30 pedestrian crossings and about the same to build from scratch.It is necessary to solve the problem of safe movement of pedestrians across the railroad tracks.
Next, you need to think about the fight against noise, which publishes the train.Noise transport lines will be one of the primary tasks as moving compositions create additional noise pollution in the city streets.
probably can not do without the construction of new road junctions, or transfer them to new places.In some areas, it may be a fairly simple upgrade.In most cases, significantly change the urban landscape.
a word, a large-scale construction creates a lot of overhead, which significantly affects the timing and overall construction costs.
Some information in figures
As a result, a new transportation system will have a total length of lines is not less than 200 km.We will build 48 new stations.For the arrangement of the new metro line will need to build at least 57 new overpasses.To ensure seamless connections to commuter trains and subway normal, it planned to build more than 200 interceptor parking garages that will hold up to 80 thousand cars.The number of trains running on the new lines will be not less than 120.
cost of the program for the construction of light metro will be more than 230 billion rubles.Financing will be carried out jointly with Russian Railways federal and regional budgets.The project Skytrain will nearly double the passenger traffic by 2020, it will be at least 1 billion people.
more about new projects
The project of high-speed transport system "Arrow".Its mission - to link Khimki residential area metro station "Glider".The length of this high-speed line is 7.2 km.
Who will implement the plans?
Authorities in the region have already received the consent of the co-operation of a number of well-known companies.Officially, this idea has become interested in Siemens.The company has extensive experience and established practice in the area of advice on the organization of modern transport systems, the construction of railways, infrastructure and capacity of rolling stock.But the light metro in Moscow is open for Russian producers that are sure to become parties to the grand project.It does not matter whether they will cooperate with foreign companies, or act independently.The regional authorities are paying special attention to the creation of the territory of the Moscow region on the required production capacity that could master the production of modern rolling stock for the new transport project.How
all real?
Generally speaking, in deciding to organize almost a new kind of transportation system management suburbs swings at some serious height.With this new, as usual, it has been drawn to the old.For the population of the Moscow region the solution of the transport problem by any means will be a joy, as the peak passenger traffic increased to such an extent that the commuter train just "pop."
What will be the fate of these grandiose plans - is unknown.Do dreams come true of ordinary passengers?Will the light rail or Odintsovo Ramenskoye?Maybe it will again be some light rail?After all, at one time very much was said about this form of transport in the direction of Balashikha.We called and the length of the track, and the expected stop and cost of construction, but in the end everything has remained in its original condition.
