Ground transport in Moscow. The new network of bus routes will allow passengers to easily move between the center and the outskirts using only ground transport. At the same time, a number of old routes will change, so you need to familiarize yourself with the Magistral traffic scheme in advance.
For example, using Magistral, you can come from a residential area to the center on business, move to another part of the center of Moscow to meet friends or attend a cultural event, and then return home - and all this by ground transport.
Moscow authorities expect that thanks to the launch of the Magistral transport system by 2017, passenger traffic on ground transport will increase, which will become more reliable and convenient: buses and trolleybuses will run at predictable intervals of 5-10 minutes, routes will become more comfortable.
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New routes
In total, 39 bus and trolleybus routes will be organized and changed, and 24 new stops will be added.
“Highway” routes will contain the letter “M” in their names. M1 will run along Leningradsky Prospect, M2 - along Kutuzovsky, M3 - along Komsomolsky, M4 - along Leninsky, M5 and M6 - along Varshavsky, M7 - along Ryazansky, M8 - along Entuziastov Highway and M9 - along Mira Avenue.
In addition to the existing ones, 24 new stops are being introduced in the center of Moscow, 12 of which are located in areas where public transport has not operated since the 90s.
Three new types of routes will appear in Moscow: mainline, regional and social.
Main routes will be the main and longest. They will connect remote areas of the capital both with the center and with each other. In particular, the routes will connect Leninsky and Leningradsky Avenues, the Luzhniki Stadium and the Semenovskaya metro station, the Vladykino and Kitay-Gorod metro stations. Movement intervals will be 5 - 10 minutes.
Regional routes will be shorter - they will connect the sleeping areas with the center. Passengers will be able to easily get to main routes or make short trips using them. Movement intervals are 10-15 minutes.
Social routes will allow Muscovites to quickly get to My Documents centers, clinics, MFCs and other socially significant places. Movement intervals are up to 30 minutes.
Which routes will change?
In addition to new bus routes, a number of existing ones are being changed. Some existing routes have been renamed and “straightened”, for example, trolleybus route No. 62 (Udarnik cinema - Leninsky Prospekt) turned into M4, bus number 6 became M6 (previously it moved in one direction along Vozdvizhenka, and in the other along Gogolevsky Boulevard , will now walk back and forth along the same streets).
In the area of Dolgorukovskaya and Barrikadnaya streets there will be through traffic through the Garden Ring. Previously, buses went there, turned around, and went back (now they will just go straight).
In addition, the movement of express routes No. 144 and 904, as well as night routes H1 - H6, will change. And this is not counting completely new bus routes.
All changes in the movement of ground transport in Moscow can be found in detail on the “Magistral” diagrams.
"Highway" schemes
Route patterns within the Magistral network will appear at all public transport stops in the center of Moscow, and will also be displayed in the Yandex.Transport service and mobile application.
In addition, new stop flags, maps and stencils have been developed for the launch of the Highway. At first, for the convenience of passengers, old and new route numbers will be displayed on stencils; main routes will be marked with thick multi-colored lines.
Fare
More than 100 new modern buses with soft seats and air conditioning will run on the new routes of the Magistral network. For travel on buses, the same tickets will be valid as for other types of ground transport in Moscow, including Troika cards.
Advantages and prospects
When developing the new transport system, three main criteria were taken into account:
The routes will run where passengers need them most, in densely populated residential areas and in the center of the capital;
Stops are organized within maximum accessibility from a large number of shopping, cultural and business centers so that passengers can reach them on foot;
Linearity and symmetry: routes are organized without loops or deviations, with stops located on both sides of the road, with the possibility of crossing.
As the press service of the Moscow City Hall reported, new routes and stops will gradually be included in the Magistral scheme. At the same time, new dedicated lanes for surface urban transport will appear, and road markings will be improved. The last stage of the Magistral network will be launched in 2017.
“People are getting used to bus routes, and their global reform is fraught with great inconvenience for passengers. The capital’s officials started talking about the fact that ground transport is in for serious changes just the other day, and they intend to launch Magistral as early as Saturday. Meanwhile, the biggest problems for passengers, such as being late for work and other troubles, may arise on Monday, when the Magistral will operate at full capacity,” says Petr Shkumatov, coordinator of the Blue Bucket Society movement.
On October 8, 2016, dozens of bus and trolleybus routes changed. Some of them took new routes, and some of the stops in the city center were renamed.
To make transport in the center more convenient, 3 types of routes were launched: highway, district and social.
Main routes the main and longest ones. They connect several districts of Moscow with the center and among themselves, for example Leninsky with Leningradsky Prospekt, Luzhniki and Semyonovskaya, Nagatinskaya and Polezhaevskaya. Movement interval: 5-10 minutes. These are the fastest and most frequent routes on the network.
Regional routes shorter ones: they connect the districts with the center. They are easy to get to the main route or make a short trip. Movement interval: 10-15 minutes.
Social routes help Moscow residents get to My Documents centers, clinics, MFCs and other socially significant places. Movement interval: 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.
Main routes:
Bus T31 Luzhniki Stadium - Trubnaya Square has been assigned the letter A, it will follow the route Luzhniki Stadium - Komsomolskaya Metro Station. From Trubnaya Square, buses follow Tsvetnoy Boulevard, Garden Ring, then along Kalanchevskaya Street (back along Orlikov Lane) to Komsomolskaya Square.
The current bus route A of the Metro “University” - Academician Zelinsky Street received a new number C10. His route doesn't change.
Bus T1 Metro “Nagatinskaya” - Hospital named after. Botkin was changed to number M1 Hospital of the Ministry of Railways - Kravchenko Street. From the Sovetsky Hotel - Romen Theater stop, buses now run in both directions along Leningradsky Prospekt and Volokolamsk Highway to the MPS Hospital stop, without stopping at the Hospital named after. Botkin. Between Pushkinskaya and Borovitskaya squares, buses travel in both directions along Tverskaya and Mokhovaya streets. And from the Udarnik Cinema stop along Yakimansky Proezd, Bolshaya Yakimanka Street and Leninsky Prospekt to the Kravchenko Street stop.
Buses No. 255k Luzhniki Stadium - Kropotkinskaya Metro Station received the number M3 Luzhniki Stadium - Semenovskaya Metro Station. From Kropotkinskaya buses will proceed along Soymonovsky Proezd, Prechistenskaya Embankment (back along Volkhonka Street). Further in both directions: along Mokhovaya Street, Okhotny Ryad Street, Teatralny Proezd, Lubyanka Square, Novaya Square (back along Lubyansky Proezd), Maroseyka, Pokrovka, Staraya Basmannaya, Spartakovskaya and Bakuninskaya streets. Then along the Elektrozavodsky Bridge, Bolshaya Semenovskaya and Velyaminovskaya streets (back along Semenovsky Lane) to the Semenovskaya metro station. M3 buses operate all week from 06:00 to 00:30.
Two routes of trolleybus No. 33 Kravchenko Street - Cinema “Udarnik” and № 62 Ozernaya Street - Udarnik Cinema was assigned the number M4 Ozernaya Street - Udarnik Cinema. Shorter flights from Kravchenko Street to Udarnik Cinema are also being organized on the new M4 route.
Trolleybus routes No. 33k and 84 are cancelled.
Bus route number 25 Nagorny Boulevard - Lubyanka Square is assigned the number M5 Nagorny Boulevard - Lubyanka Metro.
Bus route No. 6 Silicate plant - Paveletsky station assigned the number M6 Silicate plant - Nagatinskaya metro station. From Krasnopresnenskaya metro station, buses travel in both directions along Barrikadnaya, Bolshaya Nikitskaya and Mokhovaya streets to Borovitskaya Square. Then along the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge, Serafimovicha and Bolshaya Polyanka streets, Lyusinovskaya Street (back along Podolskoye Highway, Pavlovskaya and Bolshaya Serpukhovskaya streets). Further along Bolshaya Tulskaya Street and Varshavskoye Shosse to the Nagatinskaya metro station.
Trolleybus routes No. 16 Karacharovsky overpass - Lubyanskaya Square and No. 63 138th block of Vykhina - Lubyanskaya Square assigned the number M7 138th block of Vykhina - Lubyanka Metro. At the same time, shortened flights from the Karacharovsky overpass to the Lubyanka Metro are organized on the route.
Trolleybus route No. 45 4th Cable Street - Lubyanka Square received the number M8 4th Cable Street - Lubyanka Metro.
Bus route T9 Hotel “Ostankino” - Lubyanka Square assigned number M9 Metro “Vladykino” - Metro “Kitay-Gorod”. From the Ostankino Hotel stop, buses travel along Botanicheskaya and Station streets to the Vladykino metro station. Return along Susokolovskoye Highway and Botanicheskaya Street (without entering Bolshaya Marfinskaya and Malaya Botanicheskaya Streets). Continue on your route. And from Lubyanka Square buses follow New and Old Squares (back along Lubyansky Proezd) to the Kitay-Gorod metro station.
Bus route No. 206 Lobnenskaya street - Savelovsky station assigned the number M10 Lobnenskaya street - Kitay-Gorod metro station. From Savelovsky station, buses follow Novoslobodskaya and Dolgorukovskaya streets, Malaya Dmitrovka street to Pushkinskaya Square. Further along Tverskaya and Okhotny Ryad, Teatralny Proezd, Lubyanskaya, Novaya and Staraya Squares (back along Lubyansky Proezd) to the Kitay-Gorod metro station.
Bus route No. 144 Metro “Tyoply Stan” - Cinema “Udarnik” has been extended to the Kitay-Gorod metro station. From the Udarnik Cinema stop, buses travel in both directions along the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge, Mokhovaya Street, Okhotny Ryad Street, Teatralny Proezd, Lubyanskaya, Novaya and Staraya Squares (back along Lubyansky Proezd) to the Kitay-Gorod metro station. Bus number 144ts will be cancelled.
Bus route No. 904 The 4th microdistrict of Mitin - Belorussky Station will be extended to the Kitay-Gorod metro station. From Belorussky Station, buses now travel along 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya and Tverskaya streets, Okhotny Ryad, Teatralny Proezd, Lubyanskaya, Novaya and Staraya Squares (back along Lubyansky Proezd) to Kitay-Gorod. Also on the route there will be shortened flights No. 904k 4th microdistrict Mitino - Belorussky railway station.
Regional and social routes:
Bus route No. 12ts changed to number № 101 Sports Palace “Megasport” - Metro “Kitay-Gorod”. From Tverskaya Street, buses travel in both directions along Okhotny Ryad Street, Teatralny Proezd, Lubyanskaya, New and Staraya Squares (back along Lubyansky Proezd) to the Kitay-Gorod metro station.
Bus route No. 38 Rizhsky Station - Trubnaya Square has been extended to the Kitay-Gorod metro station. From Trubnaya Square, buses travel along Neglinnaya Street, Petrovka Street, Teatralny Proezd, Lubyanskaya, New and Staraya Squares to Kitay-Gorod. And in the opposite direction, buses follow Lubyansky and Teatralny passages, Neglinnaya street to Trubnaya Square, then on their own route.
Bus number 39 in the direction of the Nikitskie Vorota stop, now there is no entry to the Garden Ring.
Buses No. 64 and T79 in the direction of Raspletina Street and Savelovsky Station, follow the Garden Ring and Barrikadnaya Street, without stopping at the Mayakovskaya metro station.
Bus number 158 3rd Paveletsky Proezd - Metro “Lubyanka” go to the Lubyanka metro station from the Sadovnicheskaya Street stop along Sadovnicheskaya Street, Balchug Street, Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge, Varvarka Street and Lubyansky Proezd. In the opposite direction from the Lubyanka metro station along Lubyanskaya, New and Staraya squares, Varvarka street, Bolshoy Moskvoretsky bridge, Bolotnaya street, Sofiyskaya, Raushskaya and Kosmodamianskaya embankments to the stop Kosmodamianskaya embankment, 4. Then - on your own route.
Bus T3 follow the route Milashenkova Street - Mayakovskaya Metro Station. From the Ogorodny Proezd stop they travel along Milashenkova Street to the Milashenkova Street stop in both directions. From the Vorotnikovsky Lane stop along the Garden Ring and Dolgorukovskaya Street without entering Samotechnaya Square.
Bus T47 from the Dolgorukovskaya Street stop, go without stopping to the Mayakovskaya metro station along Dolgorukovskaya Street and the Garden Ring to Samotyochnaya Square.
Bus T39 from the Fili stop - Novy Arbat Street, extended to the Mayakovskaya metro station. From the Smolenskaya metro station, buses run in both directions along the Garden Ring to the Mayakovskaya metro station.
Trolleybus No. 8 Moskvoretsky Market - The Dobryninskaya metro station now goes to the Udarnik Cinema stop along Bolshaya Polyanka and Serafimovicha streets.
Trolleybus route No. 1k has been cancelled.
Renaming stops:
- Stop Lubyanskaya Squarefor bus routes No. 101, 144, 904 and M2, M3, M10, K, N1, N2 in Teatralny Proezd when traveling to Lubyanka Square is now calledMetro “Lubyanka”.
- Metro stop “Alexandrovsky Sad”for bus routes No. 144 and M1, M2, M3, M6, K, N1, H2 on Mokhovaya Street and Vozdvizhenka Street it is renamed to the “Lenin Library” Metro.
- Stop Central Telegraph for bus routes No. 101, 904 and M1, M10, H1 on Tverskaya Street when going to the center is now called Okhotny Ryad Metro.
- Stop Trubnaya Ploshchad for bus routes A, No. 24, 38; trolleybus No. 13 on Tsvetnoy Boulevard in both directions was renamed Trubnaya Metro. At the same time, the Trubnaya Ploshchad stop for bus routes A on Petrovsky Boulevard when traveling to Pushkinskaya Square will become Petrovsky Boulevard.
- Stop Petrovskie Vorota for bus routes A on Petrovsky Boulevard when going to Trubnaya Square was renamed Petrovsky Boulevard.
- Stop Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts for bus routes No. 255, M3 on Volkhonka Street when going to Gogolevsky Boulevard, it was renamed to Metro “Kropotkinskaya” - Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.
- Metro stop “Kropotkinskaya” for bus routes M6 on Volkhonka Street when going to Borovitskaya Square it is also named: Metro “Kropotkinskaya” - Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.
- Stop Triumfalnaya Square for bus routes No. 101, 904, as well as M1, T3, T10, T39, B on Tverskaya, 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya, Bolshaya Sadovaya streets and Oruzheyny Lane is now called Metro “Mayakovskaya”.
- Stop Nikitskie Vorota - TASS for bus routes No. 39, M6 on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street will be renamed Nikitskie Vorota.
- Stop Balchug Street for bus routes No. 158 on Sofia Embankment will be renamed Sofia Embankment.
- Stop 3rd Golutvinsky Lane for bus routes No. 144 and M1, H1; trolleybuses No. 4 and M4 on Yakimansky Proezd when traveling from the center are called Bolshaya Yakimanka Street. In addition, it was moved 90 meters back to house No. 9 on Malaya Yakimanka.
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 regional 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.
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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.
Andrey Karmatsky
Founder of the mapping company Urbica Design:
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.
In connection with the solemn procession along the boulevard of the 1st microdistrict of the Moskovsky settlement to the monument to the fallen soldiers in the Second World War of 1941-1945 on May 7 from 11:00 until the end of the procession, buses No. 420, 863, 866, 870, 876, 878, 879, 881, 890, 890k may follow at increased intervals.
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Today, April 2, the next meeting of the administration of the Moskovsky settlement with the State Unitary Enterprise Mosgortrans took place. Among others, they discussed options for a speedy solution to the issue of changing the route of bus 866 - entry into the First Moscow City Park microdistrict. Based on the results of the meeting, requests were prepared to relevant organizations. Source link
In 2019, the price of a single trip will not change. Other ticket prices will rise at the rate of inflation. Some tickets that are unpopular with passengers will be abolished. In general, in 2019, Moscow transport fares will change within 5.1%. Thus, from January 2, 2019, travel using the Troika card in the metro and on ground transport will be 38 rubles per trip instead of 36 rubles in 2018. The cost of a “United” ticket for 60 trips will be 1,900 rubles instead of 1,765 rubles. The ticket is valid for 45 days from the date of purchase, as most passengers manage to use the ticket faster. A 90-minute fare on a troika card will cost 59 rubles – 3 rubles more than in 2018.
In 2019, the cost of unlimited tickets will also change slightly. “Unified” for 30 days will cost 2,170 rubles instead of 2,075, for 90 days - 5,430 rubles instead of 5,190. The price of a discount ticket for a student - schoolchildren, students, residents and graduate students for a month in the metro will be 395 rubles instead of 380, for ground transport – 260 rubles instead of 250 rubles.
“Unlimited tickets still remain the cheapest in Russia, and discounted tickets for students are the most profitable,” the press service explained. In addition, several unpopular tickets will be canceled in 2019. Instead of TAT tickets for 60 trips, you can use unlimited TAT for 30 days. Its cost in 2019 is 1,140 rubles, which is lower than the cost of TAT for 60 trips in 2018. “United” tickets for 20 and 40 trips and 7 days will also be abolished - passengers will be able to replace them with a “Wallet” ticket of the Troika card, as well as “United” for 60 trips.
Travel on electric trains in Moscow will increase in price from January 1, 2019. However, the increase in price for residents of the capital will not be significant. Now travel on a commuter train in Moscow costs 34 rubles, from next year it will cost 36, and within one zone in the Moscow region - 23 rubles (instead of 22). The tariff increase will not go beyond inflation.
In the third - fourth quarter of 2018, a modern bus stop pavilion with a ticket sales terminal is planned to be installed in Moskovskoe. Place of installation - near the stop "Children's sports school". It is assumed that the terminal will operate around the clock and there it will be possible to write a travel ticket to the Troika card or activate remote replenishment.
You can also top up the balance of Troika cards using Eleksnet and Moscow Credit Bank terminals. You can find out the location of the terminals and find the nearest one on the unified transport portal, the websites of Mosgortrans and partner companies.
In addition, you can top up your Troika card remotely using the My Travel Card application - for this, your phone with the Android operating system must be equipped with an NFC module for working with contactless smart cards.
Also, on all Mosgortrans routes you can pay for travel using a bank card with a transport application or a mobile phone with NFC.
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