The Moscow government is implementing a colossal road and transport program. We will see its results in the very near future
The construction and reconstruction of road infrastructure is provided for by the Master Plan for the Development of Moscow until 2025. According to the mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov, the development of a metropolis is not only about ensuring the growth of citizens’ incomes and the construction of social housing, but also the construction of new roads. “The solution of transport problems is the most important and paramount task,” the mayor said. Only drastic measures can save the capital from transport collapse. Among them are the construction of new highways and overpasses, as well as new interchanges to create traffic without traffic lights. And in total in the coming years in the capital it is necessary to build about 300 kilometers of new roads. Decree of the Government of Moscow No. 390-PP defines the list of road and bridge construction projects for 2007. According to him, the estimate of road construction is 67 billion rubles.
Three levels of Zvenigorodka
Of these, 20 billion rubles will go to the construction of the Zvenigorod highway. Its construction is necessary to unload traffic flows in the north-west of Moscow. The new highway will have three levels. It will pass from Pictorialnaya Street along Marshal Zhukov Avenue, through Narodnogo Militia Street and along Nizhniye Mnevniki Street, it will reach the already built section of Zvenigorodsky Prospekt. The streets through which the route will be laid will be widened. 11 underground and two overground pedestrian crossings will be built along the entire length of Zvenigorodka. Finally, the avenue will be connected to the business center “Moscow-City” using the route along the Small Ring of the Moscow Railway. Completion is scheduled for 2011. As a result, the new highway will directly connect the Moscow Ring Road and the city center. It will take approximately 12 minutes to drive from end to end along this almost traffic-free section. “Zvenigorodsky Prospekt will significantly unload Kutuzovsky and Leningradsky Prospects, as well as Khoroshevskoye Highway,” said the chief engineer of the State Unitary Enterprise “NIiPI of the General Plan of the city of. Moscow” Yuri Korotkov. In addition to the construction of the Zvenigorod highway, plans for 2007 include the creation of several more new routes…
