Along the section of the North-Eastern Expressway (SVH) from Entuziastov Highway to the Moscow Ring Road (MKAD) started a movement transport. The new route will redistribute traffic flows and reduce the load on outbound highways.
“In fact, this is one of the most difficult sections of the North-East Expressway and any road construction in Moscow: a huge number of communication lines of existing enterprises, connections with the railway, the site itself is very complex. This is the largest and longest overpass in the city - 2.5 kilometers straight, and also the most important section. It will improve transport accessibility for a million people living in about ten districts of Moscow, including those outside the Moscow Ring Road: Nekrasovka, Kosino-Ukhtomsky and a number of other districts,” said Sergei Sobyanin.
Construction of the section of the North-Eastern Expressway from Entuziastov Highway to the Moscow Ring Road began in February 2016 and was completed in September 2018. This twice as fast standard construction period.
“Next we will connect sections of the highway in the north and create a new city highway. By the way, this is one of the few sections that does not run along existing corridors, but essentially creates a new corridor. It will improve the situation on Shchelkovskoye and Otkrytoye highways, as well as on Entuziastov highway and the Moscow Ring Road. The most important section, the most important highway,” added the Moscow Mayor.
Six lanes and not a single traffic light
The traffic-light-free six-lane highway runs from the existing temporary storage area at the intersection with the Entuziastov Highway, then on the northern side of the Kazan direction of the Moscow railway(Moscow Railway) before exiting the Kosinskaya overpass of the Moscow Ring Road. Total laid 1 1,8 kilometers of roads, including six overpasses.
Chords were built in this area the longest overpass in Moscow— 2.5 kilometers of direct travel from the Plyushchevo railway platform to the overpass exit from Perovskaya Street to the temporary storage warehouse.
“This is one of the most difficult sections, because 2.5 kilometers are artificial structures in the form of an overpass, running parallel to the railway. This is the most difficult element that we had to implement during construction,” said First Deputy Head of the Moscow City Construction Department Petr Aksenov.
Thanks to this engineering solution, it was possible to preserve the existing regional road network. In addition, the overpass can be used to cross the tracks of the Kazan direction of the Moscow Railway.
The design includes:
— overpass of the main route No. 1 (1.8 kilometers, three lanes in each direction) and two single-lane overpasses (each 143 meters). They provide traffic without traffic lights at the intersection with the railway tracks of the Gorky direction of the Moscow Railway and exits to Kuskovskaya Street;
— the left overpass of the main route No. 2 (740 meters, three lanes in each direction), which provides access from Budyonny Avenue and movement along the direct course of the temporary storage facility towards the Moscow Ring Road;
— the right overpass of the main route No. 2 (650 meters, three lanes in each direction) provides access to Budyonny Avenue and a promising direction towards Ryazansky Avenue along the tracks of the Moscow Central Circle (MCC).
In addition, overpass No. 3 (204 meters, two lanes in each direction) has appeared, along which you can exit the temporary storage warehouse onto Perovskaya Street.
Also built or reconstructed the ramps to adjacent streets and access roads with a total length of more than four kilometers.
From the side of residential buildings in the area of Kuskovskaya Street and Anosova Street, as well as near the Church of the Assumption Holy Mother of God installed in Veshnyaki noise barriers three meters high and more than one and a half kilometers long.
Pedestrian crossings
The most important part of the project was the construction and reconstruction of pedestrian crossings. Through the new spacious passage under the temporary storage warehouse, residents of Veshnyaki can get there comfortably to the metro station and railway platform Vykhino.
The reconstructed pedestrian crossing in the area of the 4th Veshnyakovsky passage connects with the Assumption Church and the Veshnyakovsky cemetery.
The crossing in the area of the Plyushchevo railway platform will be useful for those who like to walk in Kuskovo estate park.
New transport artery
The construction of the temporary storage warehouse section from the Entuziastov Highway to the Moscow Ring Road made it possible to redistribute traffic flows and reduce the load on outbound routes— Ryazansky Avenue, Entuziastov Highway and Shchelkovskoe Highway, as well as to the eastern sectors of the Moscow Ring Road and the Third Transport Ring (TTK).
In addition, the transport situation in southeastern and eastern sectors of the city, entry into Moscow has become much easier for residents of the Kosino-Ukhtomsky and Nekrasovka districts located outside the Moscow Ring Road, as well as for residents of the city of Lyubertsy in the Moscow Region. In the future, the section of the chord will provide a direct connection with the federal highway alternate Moscow - Kazan.
The North-Eastern Expressway will connect the new route M11 Moscow— St. Petersburg with the Kosinskaya overpass (namely, the interchange at the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road with the Veshnyaki-Lyubertsy highway). The road will connect the largest highways of the city: MKAD, Entuziastov Highway, Izmailovskoye, Shchelkovskoye, Yaroslavskoye, Altufevskoye, Otkrytoye and Dmitrovskoye highways.
In addition, it will be possible to go from the expressway to 15 major Moscow streets, including Festivalnaya, Selskokhozyaystvennaya streets, Berezovaya Alley, 3rd Nizhnelikhoborsky passage, Amurskaya, Shcherbakovskaya, Perovskaya, Yunosti, Papernik streets and others.
In the area Bolshaya Academicheskaya Street The North-Eastern Expressway will connect with the North-Western, and in the area of Entuziastov Highway - with the projected South-East. Thus, the North-East Expressway will provide diagonal connection north, east and southeast of the capital. This will relieve congestion in the city center, the Third Ring Road, the Moscow Ring Road and outbound highways.
Route new chord will pass through 28 districts Moscow and 10 large industrial zones. With the connection to one of the most important transport arteries of the capital, these industrial zones will also receive prospects for development.
The North-East Expressway will allow private and public transport to access 12 transport hubs, 21 metro and MCC stations, as well as platforms of the Savelovsky and Kazan directions of the Moscow Railway.
The length of the main route of the North-East Expressway will be about 35 kilometers. In total, taking into account exits and reconstruction street and road network, it is planned to build more 100 kilometers of roads, 70 overpasses, bridges and tunnels (total length of about 40 kilometers) and 16 pedestrian crossings. Now, as part of the construction of the North-East Expressway, a 69 kilometers of roads, 58 artificial structures (length 28 kilometers) and 13 pedestrian crossings.
On at the moment Construction of sections of the North-East Expressway has been completed:
— from the Businovskaya transport interchange to Festivalnaya Street;
— from Izmailovskoye to Shchelkovskoye highway;
— from Entuziastov highway to Izmailovskoye highway;
— from Entuziastov Highway to the Moscow Ring Road.
Contractors have two-year warranty obligations, despite the fact that all documents have been accepted and signed.
“The contractors are not leaving; they still have a number of works related to the railway at the new substation. This substation connects the second stage of the North-Eastern Expressway, which runs from Otkrytoye to Yaroslavskoye Shosse,” noted Pyotr Aksenov.
Traffic will soon be opened along the section of the North-Eastern Expressway from Festivalnaya Street to Dmitrovskoye Highway.
Sections of the highway from Dmitrovskoye to Yaroslavskoye and from Yaroslavskoye to Otkrytoye Shosse are also being designed. As part of these areas, about 33 kilometers of roads.
Four chords
Chord highways are key element the new road frame of Moscow, which has been created in the city for the last eight years. New chords are about 300 kilometers of new roads, 127 overpasses, bridges and tunnels and more 50 pedestrian crossings.
It is planned to build four such highways:
— North-Western Expressway— from Skolkovskoye to Dmitrovskoye highway;
— North-East Expressway- from new route M11 Moscow - St. Petersburg to the Kosinskaya overpass;
— South-Eastern Expressway — from Entuziastov highway to Polyany street;
— Southern Rockade— from Rublevskoe highway to Kapotnya.
Road construction in the Russian capital does not stop for a day. And, despite the fact that sometimes it seems that all reserves for improving the transport situation are close to exhaustion, city authorities, designers and builders manage to find new solutions to make life easier for motorists and public transport passengers. The commissioning of a system of chord roads and roads will further relieve congestion in the city center and main ring roads.
Initially, Moscow found itself hostage to the radial-ring transport system. And at a time when motorization was proceeding at a relatively low pace, this state of affairs suited everyone. However, the capital was not ready for a sharp increase in the city’s population and the number of cars at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. Analysts of the construction company Monarch and B, part of the Monarch Group of Companies, came to this conclusion.
The actions taken by the city authorities at that time did not keep up with the pace of its development - new and reconstructed streets instantly turned into places where traffic accumulated.
It became clear that building more and more new rings is a solution that does not have a serious effect and improves the road situation only for a short period of time. But it was obviously impossible to abandon the existing radial-ring system. Under these conditions, the city authorities, together with the best engineering and design minds, had to figure out how to make sure that the city did not get stuck in gigantic traffic jams in the near future.
The main idea was the redistribution of flows. In order to get from one residential area to another, located at the opposite end of the city, there were two travel options: through the Moscow Ring Road and through the center. Alternative routes were either inconvenient or too time consuming. New route options were needed. This is how the project for constructing a system of chords and rockades came into being.
NORTHEASTERN CHORD
This highway will host the North-Eastern the 35-kilometer-long chord will run from the new M11 Moscow-St. Petersburg highway to the Kosinskaya overpass, an interchange at the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road with the Veshnyaki-Lyubertsy highway. The chord will connect the Moscow Ring Road, Entuziastov Highway, Izmailovskoye, Shchelkovskoye, Otkrytoye, Yaroslavskoye, Altufevskoye and Dmitrovskoye Highways. It will reduce the traffic load on the center, the Third Ring Road, the Moscow Ring Road and outbound highways.
The other day, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin opened traffic on the overpasses at the interchange of the North-Eastern Expressway with Entuziastov Highway and Budyonny Avenue. In August, an overpass was opened at the intersection of the new highway and Shchelkovskoye Highway. The main work on the construction of the North-Eastern Expressway is planned to be completed in 2019, said the head of the city’s construction complex, Marat Khusnullin.
In addition to the section from Entuziastov Highway to Izmailovskoye Highway, two more have already been built - from the Businovskaya interchange to Festivalnaya Street and from Izmailovskoye to Shchelkovskoye Highway. Currently, work is being carried out in sections from Entuziastov Highway to the Moscow Ring Road and from Festivalnaya Street to Dmitrovskoye Shosse.
NORTHWESTERN CHORD
The purpose of this city highway is to provide a diagonal connection between the northeastern and southwestern districts of the capital, bypassing the city center, to relieve congestion on the Third Transport Ring, MKAD, Garden Ring, Leningradskoye, Volokolamskoye Highways and other highways. The new route will run from Skolkovskoye to Yaroslavskoye highway.
The reconstructed Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street together with the Alabyano-Baltiysky Tunnel formed the main part of the highway, which in the area of Dmitrovskoye Highway adjoined the North-Eastern Expressway and through the Businovskaya interchange gained access to a new highway in the direction of Sheremetyevo Airport.
Thanks to the Mikhalkovsky Tunnel, it became possible to remove traffic light objects. Traffic has already been launched along the overpass at the intersection of Skolkovskoye Highway with Vyazemskaya and Vitebskaya streets, along the turnaround overpass with Ryabinova and the bridge over the Setun River.
Finish everything construction work on the North-Western Expressway and the entire highway is planned to be launched in 2018.
SOUTH ROKADA
The road will connect the Moscow Ring Road through Rublevskoye Shosse, Balaklavsky Prospekt, Varshavskoye Shosse, Kantemirovskaya Street, Kashirskoye Shosse and Borisovskie Prudy Street. Rokada will serve as a backup for the Moscow Ring Road and the southern section of the Third Ring Road. Its task is to redistribute traffic flows and relieve congestion on the Kashirskoye and Varshavskoye highways, as well as Proletarsky Avenue. The new highway will already include existing roads which will be reconstructed and expanded.
According to the plans of the city authorities, Southern Rockade will pass from Balaklavsky Avenue through a tunnel under Varshavskoye Highway, then through an overpass it will cross the railway tracks, cross the Chertanovka River over the bridge and connect with Kantemirovskaya Street in the area of Proletarsky Prospekt. Then, through the tunnel, drivers will be able to get to Borisovskie Prudy Street in the direction of Maryino. Then the road will go along Verkhnie Polya Street, from where the transport will head towards the Moscow Ring Road through Kapotnya.
To date, the section from Rublevskoye Highway to Balaklavsky Prospekt has already been put into operation. Overpasses and pedestrian crossings were built here. The capital’s authorities plan to build an interchange at the intersection Warsaw highway and Balaklavsky Avenue. A tunnel, overpass, turning ramps and side passages will appear at this location. In addition, an overpass will be built under the Paveletsky direction, a bridge over the Chertanovka River and an underground pedestrian crossing. And the section from the intersection with Proletarsky Prospekt to the Moscow Ring Road will be formed using existing streets.
Total length of chord roads will be about 243 kilometers. Over a hundred transport structures - tunnels, overpasses, bridges and overpasses - will be built on them. The launch of traffic on new high-speed routes will make it possible to create virtually a new ring, but with exits to the Moscow Ring Road, which will relieve congestion on the last and Third Transport Rings. The plans are to connect the North-Western and North-East Expressways in the area of Festivalnaya Street with access to the road to the Businovskaya interchange and then to the Moscow-St. Petersburg toll highway. The Southern Road will intersect with the North-Western Expressway in the Krylatskoye area.
This fall, the North-Eastern and North-Western Expressways in Moscow will be connected by a turning overpass on Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street. First Deputy Head of the Construction Department Pyotr Aksenov told reporters about this after visiting one of the sections of the North-East Expressway under construction.
As RG has already written, the capital’s chords in terms of the scale of construction and the impact on city traffic can be compared with the Moscow Ring Road or the Third Ring Road. They will save Muscovites from tens of kilometers of re-runs, which they are now forced to do in order to get to the neighboring area. The chords will allow you to cross through the city without entering the historical center. Moreover, both highways will be free.
In particular, the SZH will run from Dmitrovskoye to Skolkovskoye highways, and the temporary storage warehouse will run from toll road Moscow - St. Petersburg to the interchange at the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road and the Veshnyaki - Lyubertsy interchange. After the highways are fully launched, the load on the outbound routes, according to calculations by the Research and Design Institute of the General Plan of Moscow, will decrease by 20-25 percent.
Some sections of the chords are already in use by motorists, and some of their elements are still being completed. For example, the connection between Festivalnaya Street and Dmitrovskoe Highway. It is almost 11 km long, and half of this route goes over bridges and overpasses. Artificial structures were specially designed so that they go as far as possible from houses and do not cause inconvenience to their residents. Nevertheless, just in case, in high-rise buildings in the northeast, builders replaced 6 thousand windows with silent ones. However, construction is already ending. Visually, the overpasses are almost ready; only a few things remain to be completed on the engineering side.
We have actually completed 90 percent of the work,” Aksenov said. - But there was a slight delay. On one of the sites there is a Khovrinskaya pumping station, at which communications need to be relocated. In winter, this could not be done without harming the 3.5 thousand local residents whose houses are powered by it.
It turned out that it was possible to turn off the station only on May 15. According to Aksenov’s estimates, the northern section of the expressway can realistically be launched by City Day in September. This will complete the work along almost the entire length of the temporary storage warehouse. Construction is still ongoing on the section between Shchelkovskoye and Otkrytoye highways.
Infographics "RG" / Alexander Chistov / Sergey Babkin
In the near future, in the southwest of the city, the North-Eastern passage will connect with the North-Western one. In the area of Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street, the construction of several connecting overpasses is planned. The first of them, the turnaround, will be completed in October this year. It allows you to drive from one chord track to another without wasting time on a detour along Dmitrovskoe Highway. Let me note that the Moscow authorities expect to complete construction of both chords by 2020-2021.
The section of the North-Eastern Expressway - from Festivalnaya Street to Dmitrovskoye Shosse - will be completed by 2018. Its length is almost 11 kilometers, there will be many overpasses, overpasses and tunnels. Work on the new site is now in full swing. On Monday, Sergei Sobyanin visited the large-scale construction site.
Almost five kilometers of highway along the Oktyabrskaya Railway. On working diagram construction of the North-Eastern Expressway, this section is number 7. It will connect the existing exit to the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway with Dmitrovskoye Highway. The amount of work is colossal. Indeed, in addition to the construction of the roadway itself, it is necessary to shift kilometers of communications, reports.
Thorough preparations were made for the start of construction here. The road will pass through a vast industrial zone. To make room, dozens of buildings have to be demolished. Car repair shops, warehouses, garage complexes - all this is being removed to accommodate overpasses and overpasses. Even pumping station, which serves an entire microdistrict, will be moved to the other side of the railway line. At the same time, consumers will not be disconnected for a minute. Such preparatory work Not only do they take a lot of time, but they also take up a significant portion of the budget.
“60 percent of our efforts and time will be spent on clearing the territory, moving communications - these are heating mains, water supply, power lines, other underground, for example, cable collectors we have, after which we will begin large-scale construction of the structures themselves,” said the head of the construction department Moscow Andrey Bochkarev.
In total, more than 10 kilometers of roads will be built on this site. Most of it will be on overpasses and overpasses. The 170-meter bridge across the Likhoborka River will become one of the most complex engineering structures. Its width will allow for 11 traffic lanes with access to a large road junction towards the Yaroslavl highway.
“We have started the most complex section of the Moscow road network. This is the connection of the toll road to St. Petersburg and Dmitrovka. We have already completed one section to Festivalnaya, now we have started the second section, which almost entirely consists of overpasses, overpasses, tunnels and a bridge We hope that we will finish it in 2018,” Sobyanin said.
However, the builders promise to deliver some sections earlier. When ready. When the section from Festivalnaya to Dmitrovka is built in its entirety, it will become part of the 35-kilometer North-Eastern Expressway. This will be a “first category” city highway. A multi-lane, traffic-light-free highway that will provide a diagonal connection between opposite districts of Moscow, while skirting the busy streets of the center.
Andrey Sidorenko, Vladimir Chernykh, Ilya Ushakov, TV Center.
Car traffic is open along the section of the North-Eastern Expressway from Entuziastov Highway to the Moscow Ring Road, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced today.
“I couldn’t deny myself the pleasure - I drove from the Kosinskaya interchange to the Entuziastov Highway, the highway turned out to be first-class. In fact, this is one of the most difficult sections of the North-Eastern Expressway, the engineering itself is very difficult, the longest overpass in the city is 2.5 km straight ahead,” said S. Sobyanin.
You can drive along the new route from the Kosinskaya overpass on the Moscow Ring Road to Otkrytoye Highway. Now in Moscow there is a traffic-light-free road 20 km long (taking into account previously introduced sections).
Construction of the section of the North-East Expressway (SVH) from the Entuziastov Highway to the Moscow Ring Road began in February 2016 and was completed in September 2018.
The traffic-free highway runs from the temporary storage warehouse section at the intersection with Entuziastov Highway, then from the northern side of the Kazan direction of the Moscow Railway to the exit to the Moscow Ring Road (Kosinskaya overpass).
A total of 11.8 km of roads were built, including six overpasses with a total length of 3.7 km. As part of the section, the longest overpass in Moscow was built, 2.5 km long from the Plyushchevo Moscow Railway platform to the overpass exit from the street. Perovskaya at the temporary storage warehouse. In addition, an overpass has been erected from which you can exit the expressway onto Perovskaya Street.
On the side of residential buildings in the area of Kuskovskaya and Anosova streets, as well as near the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Veshnyaki district, noise barriers 3 meters high were installed for more than 1.5 km.
“This is one of the most difficult areas. 60% of the route passes over the Mosvodokanal communications. We had to carry out a lot of work to strengthen these communications over 12 kilometers,” said First Deputy Head of the Moscow Construction Department Pyotr Aksenov.
We also took care of pedestrians. New crossings will make it more convenient to get to the Vykhino metro station, the Vykhino and Plyushchevo platforms, the Assumption Church and the Veshnyakovsky cemetery.
The launch of a new section of the highway will help distribute traffic flows and reduce the load on Ryazansky Prospekt, Entuziastov Highway and Shchelkovskoye Highway, as well as on the eastern sectors of the Moscow Ring Road and the Third Ring Road.
The transport situation in the southeastern and eastern sectors of the city will significantly improve, and entry into the central part of the capital will be simplified for residents of the Kosino-Ukhtomsky and Nekrasovka districts, located outside the Moscow Ring Road, and residents of Lyubertsy near Moscow.
Let us remind you that the North-Eastern Expressway will run from the M11 Moscow – St. Petersburg highway to the Kosinskaya overpass (the interchange at the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road with the Veshnyaki-Lyubertsy highway).
The length of the temporary storage warehouse will be about 35 km. The road will pass through 28 districts of Moscow and 10 large industrial zones, which with its arrival will have the opportunity for development.