The opening of the micro. A new type of urban transport: how does the MCC differ from metro and trains

The average speed of passenger trains will be 40 km/h.

According to the head of the Business Block Management Department “Passenger Transportation” JSC " RUSSIAN RAILWAYS " Maxim Schneider, the average speed is determined taking into account acceleration-deceleration and stop times. In addition, freight traffic will remain on the Moscow Central Ring. "As before, it will be served by a depot" Likhobory ”, equipped with diesel locomotives 2M62 and ChME3. However, after the launch of passenger electric trains, freight traffic will be carried out mainly at night.

Passenger traffic along the Moscow Central Circle will be launched in autumn 2016. In the first year of operation, it is planned to transport about 75 million people. 31 transport interchange hubs will appear on the Moscow Ring Road, and all stations will have the possibility of transferring to public transport.

It will be possible to drive a full circle along the Moscow Central Ring in 84 minutes, the head of the business block management department told reporters “Passenger Transportation” JSC " RUSSIAN RAILWAYS " Maxim Schneider. He is quoted by the agency " Moscow ". According to the official, the average speed of the trains will be about 40 kilometers per hour, taking into account acceleration and deceleration and stop times. Passenger control and passenger screening at the stations will be carried out by Russian Railways employees, for which inspection zones with metal detector frames will be created.
In turn, the Deputy Head of the State Unitary Enterprise “Moscow subway” for Strategic Development and Investment Roman Latypov reaffirmed that the launch of the ring will not affect the fare. The cards will operate on the line “ Troika ”, “Single ”, “90 minutes" and all kinds of metropolitan benefits. And in August, new schemes will appear in the subway, where the Moscow Central Ring will be indicated as the 14th metro line, the launch of the line may be scheduled for the first ten days of September.
According to the calculations of the city authorities, the ring will gain popularity among Muscovites and guests of the capital in two years after the launch of passenger traffic on it. In the first year of operation, the road should carry approximately 75 million passengers, and by 2025 the expected passenger flow will increase to 300 million people a year, which is comparable to traffic on busy subway lines.

At the same time, the average speed will be about 40 kilometers per hour, the City News Agency reports. Moscow " with reference to the Head of the Business Block Management Department “Passenger Transportation” JSC " RUSSIAN RAILWAYS " Maxim Schneider.

Also, trains on the Moscow Ring Road will be synchronized with the metro. Thus, the trains will not run at night from 1:00 to 5:30. The opening of the ring railway is scheduled for September 1, 2016. There will be 31 stations on the ring, passengers will be able to make 17 transfers to 11 metro lines and 9 transfers to the radial directions of the Moscow railway junction. All city tickets and benefits will be valid for fare payment, and transfers between the metro and the Moscow Ring Road will be free.

The launch of passenger traffic on the Small Ring of the Moscow Railway will actually create another ground ring of the Moscow Metro, which will reduce the load on the subway by about 15%, and in 2020 - by 20%. The load on the critical sections of the radial metro lines will decrease - these are two or three stations in front of the ring, where the maximum number of passengers gather at rush hour.

A full circle along the Moscow Ring Railway (Moscow Ring Railway), taking into account stops, will take passengers 84 minutes.

According to the portal m24.ru, the entire journey along the ring will take 84 minutes. Head of Business Unit Management Department “Passenger Transportation” JSC " RUSSIAN RAILWAYS " Maxim Schneider said that this is taking into account stops and acceleration-deceleration.

Moscow Ring Road (old name) will be the second metro circuit. It will intersect with the metro with convenient interchange nodes. The test launch of the ring will take place in July. Passengers will be able to use the railway from September.

On the ring, 54 kilometers long, there will be 31 stations and 17 transfers on the metro line. All city tickets and benefits on the ring will remain valid.

It will be possible to drive along the Moscow Central Ring in 84 minutes at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour, the Agency reports. Moscow ".
"We expect the train to make a full circle, taking into account stops, in 84 minutes. The route speed will be about 40 kilometers per hour, taking into account acceleration-deceleration and stop times", - said the head of the business unit management department “Passenger Transportation” JSC " RUSSIAN RAILWAYS " Maxim Schneider.
The Moscow Ring Railway will become a full-fledged second metro circuit, which will be integrated into the Moscow subway system using convenient transport hubs. The test launch of the second metro ring is scheduled for mid-July, and the railway will open for passengers in September.
The length of the Small Ring will be 54 kilometers. It will run 130 pairs of trains with an interval of 5-6 minutes during peak hours. All rolling stock is planned to be equipped with energy-saving electrical equipment.
There will be 31 stations with transport hubs (TPU) on the ring. There are 17 transfers to 11 metro lines and 9 transfers to the radial directions of the railway.
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Today it became known how long it will take to travel from point A to point A on the Moscow Ring Road. Test runs of trains have shown that it will be possible to drive a full circle along the Moscow Central Circle in 84 minutes at a speed of 40 km/h. This was reported to journalists by the head of the business unit management department “Passenger Transportation” JSC " RUSSIAN RAILWAYS " Maxim Schneider.
Deputy Mayor, Head of the Moscow Department of Transport and Development of Road Infrastructure Maxim Liksutov said that the MKR received the official name "Moscow Central Ring". Earlier it was reported that passenger traffic on the Moscow Ring Road is planned to be launched in autumn 2016. In the first year of operation, the MKZHD should carry approximately 75 million passengers.

A full circle on the Moscow Central Road (formerly MKZHD) will be 84 minutes, the news agency reported. Moscow " with reference to the head of the Business Block Management Department “Passenger Transportation” JSC " RUSSIAN RAILWAYS " Maxim Schneider.

. . . . . The route speed will be about 40 kilometers per hour, taking into account acceleration and deceleration and stop times," Schneider said.

Recall that the Moscow Ring Railway (MKZhD) was given an official name - the Moscow Central Road. Now on the metro maps it is called "second ring".

Already this autumn, the metropolitan metro will be connected to the new ring. MCD is a modern, electrified line with completely new traffic safety devices. According to preliminary calculations, after its commissioning, the Moscow Metro's Circle Line will be unloaded by 15%.

This is the time for a full circle of driving around the MCC.

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The average speed of trains will be about 40 km/h. Passenger control and screening of passengers at the stations will be carried out by Russian Railways employees using metal detector frames.

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In some sections of the ring there is a third way for the maneuvering movements of trains.

The highway will be opened for passengers by the end of 2016. 31 stations will open, including 17 with transfers on the metro line.

The average speed of trains on the Small Ring Railway will be 40 kilometers per hour. They will be synchronized with the metro, and transfers between the metro and the Moscow Ring Road will be free.

. . . . . All city tickets and benefits will be valid for paying for travel on the Small Ring.

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MOSCOW, 10 September. /TASS/. Passenger traffic has opened today on the Moscow Central Ring (MCC, formerly MKZHD): 26 stations are available to citizens, from 11 of which you can switch to metro lines, from 5 to commuter train stops.

Muscovites explored with interest a new, ground branch, the correspondent found out. TASS, having driven a full circle on the MCC.

"The ring passes through 26 districts of Moscow, where about 2 million people live. 30% of them live within walking distance of the MCC stations. Surface metro will come to six districts for the first time, about 600 thousand Muscovites live there," said the Deputy Mayor of Moscow on transport issues Maxim Liksutov on the eve of the start of train traffic on the ring.

The swallows flew

At 14:00, the first train, the red and gray Lastochka, arrives at the Luzhniki platform. The next station - "Kutuzovo" - is announced by the director of the People's Museum of the Moscow Metro Konstantin Cherkassky. "The beginning of traffic on the Moscow District Railway took place on July 19, 1908 at the Serebryany Bor station. Initially, the movement was passenger traffic, but then it did not take root," Cherkassky's voice takes you to the past, when Moscow still fit inside that road, and therefore it called district and no other.

After more than a century, passengers returned to the Moscow District Railway, now the Moscow Central Ring. Today, a full circle on the MCC took 82 minutes, the average travel time between stations is 3 minutes, and the interval between trains is 5-10 minutes. The trains have a comfortable temperature, the information boards indicate the current time, the air temperature inside the cabin, and the name of the station. Stations and transfers are announced in Russian and English, you can charge your phone on the train or read a special issue of the newspaper "My Metro" dedicated to the MCC.

It seems that everyone is comfortable in the carriage: families with strollers and dogs, pensioners, young people, passengers with scooters and bicycles. An hour after the opening of traffic on the ring in the car, there is literally nowhere for an apple to fall. Passengers exchange impressions, ask each other about tickets, transfer times, study small cards that are handed out at the entrance to the stations.

“Look, we live on Novokhokhlovskaya, and I go to work on Leninsky Prospekt. I go through the Third Transport Ring, the road takes about an hour, or even an hour and a half. And if you leave the car and go here to Gagarin Square, it’s minutes 20 will only take,” the husband says to his wife. The couple decided to ride around the ring with their three daughters and a small dog called Button.

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The transition from the Ploshchad Gagarina MCC station to the Leninsky Prospekt station is warm: you don’t need to go outside from the platform, the entrance to the metro is located right there. There are four more such transfers according to the "dry feet" principle: at the Cherkizovskaya, Kutuzovskaya, Vladykino and Mezhdunarodnaya metro stations. They will only take a couple of minutes. But at other stations, transferring to the metro or commuter trains takes more time.

From the station "Shelepikha" you can transfer to the railway station "Testovskaya" of the Belarusian direction, the transition takes 7 minutes, by the way, 9 minutes are indicated on the MCC map. True, the signs are not visible, you have to ask the MCC employees for directions. Fans of skyscrapers will like the transition - MIBC "Moscow-City" is located very close and is perfectly visible.

There are no turnstiles at Testovskaya, you can buy a train ticket at the box office, but it is located on the opposite platform from the entrance. The way back to "Shelepikha" took only 5 minutes. Most likely, the lack of signs will not confuse local residents. And there is.

What is known about one of the largest transport projects in Russia

On September 10, on City Day, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin launched traffic on the Moscow Central Circle (MCC). More than 100 billion rubles have been invested in one of the most ambitious Russian transport projects, but much has not yet been completed. RBC presents a dossier on the MCC

High-speed electric train "Lastochka" on a test run on the MCC, September 2, 2016 (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC)

1. What was launched

On the Day of the City, for the first time, the Moscow Central Ring, a city railway with a length of 54 km, accepted passengers. In total, the MCC will have 31 stations (the exact name is a transport interchange hub, TPU). 17 of them will be connected to metro stations, including covered galleries from the MCC to the metro at 11 stations; in the mayor's office, such transitions are called "dry feet". There will be nine transfer points from the MCC to commuter trains (only the Kyiv commuter line will remain without integration with the ring). During rush hour, trains will appear at the stations every six minutes, during normal times - once every 11-15 minutes; The train will make a full circle in an hour and a half. Boards on the platforms will show the arrival time of the next train. At the stations, they promise to install ports for recharging gadgets.

After the launch of the Russian Railways project, the entire railway infrastructure will depart, and the city delegates the ownership of the platforms and transport hubs (TPU) to the State Unitary Enterprise Moscow Metro. In the first month of the MCC's operation, travel on it will be free, then it will be possible to enter the MCC station using cards that are the same for Moscow public transport.

Construction of a covered gallery from the MCC to the Vladykino metro station; in the city hall such transitions are called “dry feet”, July 2016 (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC)

2. Who invented

The construction of the Moscow circular railway connecting the industrial zones on the outskirts of Moscow began in 1902. It was launched in 1908, later than planned, because there were interruptions in funding due to the Russo-Japanese War. Mostly freight traffic was carried along the MOZHD. Passenger trains also went, but in 1934, with the development of tram traffic in the city and the start of construction of the metro, the ring was closed for people.

With the withdrawal of most factories outside of Moscow, this cargo line became unnecessary. At the end of 2007, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin signed an agreement to work on a project to convert the freight ring into a passenger line. It was planned that all work will be completed in 2010-2011. The deadline has been pushed back several times. In fact, construction began in 2012.

3. What will the trains be like?

The MCC will run about 30 trains. As "urban trains" use "Swallows", developed by Siemens commissioned by Russian Railways for the transport of passengers during the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi. The current head of the Moscow Metro, Dmitry Pegov, led the project to launch Lastochka in Sochi when he worked for Russian Railways.

The train has five cars (expandable to ten). All “Lastochka” for the metropolitan ring will be equipped with Wi-Fi and air conditioning, there will be special places for bicycles, which, unlike the metro, can be transported unassembled along the MCC. Each Lastochka will have two toilets.

High-speed electric train "Lastochka" in the operational depot, November 2015 (Photo: Sergey Gusev)

4. How much did you spend

By the time the MCC was launched, more than 100 billion rubles had been spent on the project. Russian Railways became the main investor: the state-owned company invested 74 billion rubles in the construction of railway infrastructure. (they planned to spend 54 billion rubles, but the demolition of facilities and the transfer of communications cost unexpectedly expensive, a source familiar with the construction of the MCC told RBC).

The Moscow government spent 19 billion rubles. for the construction of 31 ring stations and their integration with metro stations. Another 10.6 billion rubles. spent on the reconstruction of overpasses (the Volokolamsk overpass became the most expensive, it cost 5 billion rubles - the authorities had, among other things, to change the windows in the residential buildings closest to the overpass for noise protection).

The city will pay RZD 3.8 billion rubles a year. for transport services for passengers on the new ring. The parties have already signed a 15-year contract.

Luzhniki station, July 2016 (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC)

In the approved project, near 11 transfer hubs, commercial facilities were to be built at the expense of investors - shopping and business centers, hotels. The management company OAO MKZhD, owned by the Moscow government, must issue property rights to land plots for commercial construction on its own subsidiaries and then sell them at auction to investors.

By the time the traffic on the ring was launched, only one such section had gone under the hammer: for 1.14 billion rubles. Pioneer Group received a 100% stake in Botanichesky Sad LLC and the right to develop the territory near the Botanichesky Sad transport hub. The company, which is implementing the LIFE Botanical Garden residential project nearby, is going to build a shopping and office center and an apart-hotel there.

“All other sites for the construction of the transfer hub will be implemented during 2016-2017. We expect to earn at these auctions at least 14 billion rubles, a maximum of 19 billion rubles, depending on the situation. That is, we will return almost all the funds that the city invested in the construction of the technological part of the stations, ”says RBC’s interlocutor in the Moscow City Hall, adding that the construction of the transfer hub will give impetus to the development of the territories around the MCC by developers. According to the interlocutor of RBC, by the end of 2016 it is planned to put up for auction four or five objects, the rest - next year.

Construction of the Botanical Garden station, July 2016 (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC)

6. What will give a new ring

“By 2020, when all projects for integration with the metro and electric trains are completed, projects for shopping and office centers are implemented, we plan that passenger traffic will amount to 300 million people a year,” a source in the Moscow City Hall told RBC, adding that the same the number of passengers per year is transported by the operating Metro Circle Line. In the meantime, the new ring will carry about 75 million people a year, the City Hall calculated.

The launch of the MCC will unload the metro, especially in the center, and increase the accessibility of a number of areas where there have been no metro stations so far, the mayor's office is sure. The head of the Moscow Construction Complex, Marat Khusnullin, shared estimates that the busy Koltsevaya metro line would become 15% freer - people would not have to travel from the outskirts to the center to change trains at Koltsevaya. The MCC website provides calculations: the trip for the average metro passenger will be 20 minutes shorter.

Egor Muleev, a researcher at the Institute of Transport Economics and Transport Policy at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, emphasizes the ambiguity of such calculations: according to him, the benefits of launching the MCC are like bike lanes in Moscow: for some this will really make it easier to move around, but for many it will not change anything.

“The ring is inserted without full-fledged transfer nodes. I strongly doubt that even in the coming years it will be in demand by passengers to the extent that the authorities are counting on,” says Pavel Zyuzin, senior researcher at the Center for Research on Transport Problems in Megacities at the Higher School of Economics. - There are questions about transfers at many radii. They are located at a distance of 500-700 m from the MCC stations.”

Parking-and-ride parking will appear near four MCC stations this year (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC)

However, according to the expert, the new ring will be very useful for residents of certain areas of Moscow. “On the Yaroslavl highway in the direction of Bogorodskoye and Lefortovo, it will ease the situation. It will unload some northwestern sectors, Koptevo and other areas,” the expert lists. “But as for the south, here the MCC is very close to the Metro Circle Line, and the difference between them is small.” Also, the launch of the MCC, in his opinion, will make it easier for residents of certain cities in the Moscow region, especially for passengers traveling from Mytishchi and Korolev.

What didn't get done

By the day of the official launch of the MCC, the builders did not have time to prepare seven stations for operation. Their list was published by TASS, citing a source in the Moscow government. The first trains of the ring will pass Koptevo, Panfilovskaya, Zorge, Khoroshevo, Izmailovo, Andronovka and Dubrovka without stopping. This information was confirmed to RBC by its own source in the project management company OAO MKZhD.

A month and a half before the City Day, a high-ranking RBC source in the Moscow government claimed that “at the launch, the entire infrastructure, all platforms at 31 stopping points, will be ready.” “This is a must-have, and there is no doubt that it will be ready for launch,” RBC’s interlocutor assured. However, on September 2, Hamid Bulatov, First Deputy Head of the Department of Transport, told reporters that the opening of seven MCC stations on the day of the start of traffic along the ring "is in doubt", promising that a full list of stations will be announced a week before the grand opening, which will begin to function immediately.

But the official list of finished stations was not announced on Thursday, when less than two days remained before the ceremony. RBC's source at Moscow Railways OJSC said that the final decision on the number of stations that will be available to passengers on the first day of the MCC will be made only a day before the opening of the ring. At the same time, the interlocutor said that seven of the 31 stations “will definitely not be opened,” and there are “doubts” about two more. “We didn’t have time, all the necessary equipment has not yet been installed everywhere. Maybe we will open 24 stations at once, and then we will close two for a short time for finishing work, ”a source at the Moscow Ring Railway told RBC, adding that before the end of the year, “all stations of the MCC will definitely be available for passengers.”

Most of the covered galleries are not ready for transition to platforms for metro trains and three transfer points from the MCC to the metro. But these facilities, unlike the stations themselves, were originally planned to be built after the launch of traffic along the MCC.

Which trains will not run

Initially, other trains with a bird's name - Ivolgi - were supposed to run along the MCC. Tender for the organization of the movement of electric trains along the Moscow Ring Road for 15 years for 57 billion rubles. the winner was TsPPK, an operator of suburban electric trains co-owned by Moscow Vice Mayor and head of the Department of Transport Maxim Liksutov. In an interview with RBC, Liksutov stated that the TsPPK won the tender due to a more favorable offer for Moscow, and assured that he himself, after switching to the civil service, did not follow the business of his former companies. “Three companies took part in the competition, including Russian Railways themselves, which offered less favorable conditions for the city and therefore lost,” Liksutov explained to RBC in February 2015.

The TsPPK company planned to conclude a contract with Transmashholding (the company's co-owners are Iskander Makhmudov and Andrey Bokarev, until 2011 Liksutov was also a co-owner of this company) for the production of Ivolga electric trains. The trains were positioned as competitors of the Lastochka, while they were completely made of domestic materials and cheaper by 40-50%.

But Ivolga was unable to pass certification, and without it it was impossible to put trains of this model on the MCC. A representative of JSC VNIIZhT, which is testing a prototype of the Ivolga, refused to tell RBC why the train was not certified.

In January 2016, a few months after Oleg Belozerov replaced Vladimir Yakunin as head of Russian Railways, it turned out that the rights to serve passengers and the $56 billion contract would also go to Russian Railways. As a source in Russian Railways explains, Oleg Belozerov considered the situation unfair for Russian Railways: “It turned out that the state built the entire infrastructure with its own money, on which Liksutov’s business partners would earn money, who would supply trains and receive money for transportation. In mid-January 2016, the CPPK unexpectedly decided to assign the contract for transport services to Russian Railways.”

City electric train EG2Tv "Ivolga" (Photo: Sergey Fadeichev/TASS)

Mikhail Khromov, director general of the CPPK, said that Russian Railways and the city authorities were the initiators of the assignment of the agreement - "they were convincing enough for us to agree." Officially, Russian Railways also admits that they received the contract after "multilateral consultations with the participation of the Moscow government." Now Russian Railways will carry MCC passengers on their Lastochkas.

RBC's source in the Moscow government, however, claims that the Ivolga can still return to the project. “If Ivolga passes certification, then Russian Railways will be able to replace Lastochka with it,” says RBC’s interlocutor. - In our contract it is not fixed that for all 15 years there will be only "Swallow". In my opinion, this is a question of the efficiency of the rolling stock, the cost of maintenance, etc.”

TsPPK eventually got only a contract for 2.1 billion rubles. to organize the sale of tickets and the work of controllers for a period of four years. However, the ticketing system of the new ring will also be fully integrated into the system of urban transport, and not the suburban transport, which is the focus of the CPPK.