On October 2, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin inspected the construction progress of the section of the North-Eastern Expressway from Entuziastov Highway to the Moscow Ring Road. This section is planned to be completed in 2018.
Traffic-light-free highway
The route of the section of the North-Eastern Expressway from the Entuziastov Highway to the Moscow Ring Road, which will be built in 2018, will run from the existing section of the expressway at the intersection with the Entuziastov Highway, then from the northern side of the Ryazan direction of the Moscow Railway to the exit to the ring road.
In this section, the highway will be traffic-light-free with three lanes in each direction thanks to five overpasses.
The new section of the North-Eastern Expressway from the Entuziastov Highway to the Moscow Ring Road will in the future make it possible to redistribute traffic flows and reduce the load on outbound highways - Ryazansky Prospekt, Entuziastov Highway and Shchelkovskoe Highway, as well as on the eastern sectors of the Moscow Ring Road and the Third Transport Ring. In addition, the new highway will significantly improve the transport situation in the southeastern and eastern parts of the city, and will also simplify entry into Moscow for residents of the Kosino-Ukhtomsky and Nekrasovka districts and residents of Lyubertsy near Moscow.
In the future, a new section of the highway will provide an entrance to Moscow for a backup of the Moscow-Kazan federal highway.
Pedestrian accessibility
A new underground passage will be built near the Vykhino metro station. It will be located under the North-Eastern Expressway and will allow access to the subway from the Veshnyakov side. In addition to local residents, it will be used by those who come to the Vykhino station by ground transport.
In addition, during the construction of the chord, two more existing underground passages will be reconstructed - in the area of the Plyushchevo and Veshnyaki railway platforms.
Eco-horda
To ensure that local residents are not disturbed by the sound of cars, a three-meter noise barrier will be installed along the route. Of course, cars will be heard, but no louder than those driving along the streets of the area.
Photo: portal Moscow 24/Alexander Avilov
Noise barriers will protect the Kuskovsky Forest Park from the chord.
Even when designing the section, the chords increased the distance from the highway to the boundaries of the forest park. This should protect the natural-historical site from the possible influence of construction. It is also planned to limit the speed of traffic on this section.
In addition, it is planned to plant more than 200 mature trees, 1,800 shrubs, 134 thousand square meters of lawns and 500 square meters of flower beds near the highway.
From East to North in half an hour
The entire North-Eastern Expressway will be about 35 km long. It 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 route will connect the major highways of the city: MKAD, Entuziastov Highway, Izmailovskoye, Shchelkovskoye, Otkrytoye, Yaroslavskoye, Altufevskoye and Dmitrovskoye Highways.
Thus, the North-Eastern Expressway will provide a diagonal connection between the north, east and south-east of the capital, reducing the traffic load on the center, the Third Transport Ring, the Moscow Ring Road and outbound highways by about a quarter. In fact, the chord will become a backup for the Moscow Ring Road and the Third Transport Ring (TTK).
The Moscow government arbitrarily demolished the “unauthorized” buildings.
In order to achieve this demolition, the Civil Code of the Russian Federation in Art. 222 urgently made changes:
1. An unauthorized construction is a building, structure or other structure erected, created on a land plot that was not provided in the prescribed manner, or on a land plot, the permitted use of which does not allow the construction of this object on it, or erected, created without receiving the necessary funds for this permits or in violation of town planning and building codes and regulations.
2. The unauthorized building is subject to demolition...
At the same time, Art. 222 in paragraph 4 especially noted that an unauthorized building is subject to demolition if the building occupied by it "... the land plot is located in a zone with special conditions for the use of territories... or in the right of way of utility networks of federal, regional or local significance."
Contents of the new edition of Art. 222 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation shows that unauthorized construction in Moscow, which violates the Law, is carried out not only by businessmen, but also by the Moscow Government, which, in order to eliminate unauthorized construction, initiated changes to Art. 222 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. These changes will also affect new construction projects that will be carried out after the introduction of changes to Article 222. In order to ensure that after completion of construction new buildings cannot be recognized as unauthorized and subject to demolition, the requirements of Art. 222 must also be implemented in the designs of these new buildings. To achieve this, projects must not be unauthorized, must comply with legal requirements and must be tested for compliance with Art. before implementation. 222 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.
Such an unauthorized project is the project for a section of the North-Eastern Expressway in the Moscow district of Veshnyaki (VAO). According to the project, the route of this section of the highway is laid through the forest park of the Kuskovo estate, a cultural heritage site of regional significance. It is laid in the area specified in clause 1 of Art. 222 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, as « not provided in accordance with the established procedure, or on a land plot, the permitted use of which does not allow the construction of this facility on it.”
Passage of the North-East Expressway
“Provided in accordance with the established procedure” is a site determined by the General Plan of the City of Moscow until 2025, at the address: 1st Veshnyakovsky Proezd, Ryazansky District of the South-Eastern Administrative District. The Kuskovo estate is located in another, Eastern Administrative District, and the one who approved the General Plan prohibits laying a route here Law of Moscow No. 17 of 05/05/2010.
Construction of a chord in the Kuskovo estate prohibits Federal Law No. 73 of June 25, 2002“On objects of cultural heritage...” art. 3_1, art. 5_1, since this is construction “on a land plot, the permitted use of which does not allow the construction of this facility on it.” Federal Law No. 73 of 2002 prohibits such capital construction on the territory of a cultural heritage site. As a result, 20 hectares of forest will be cut down, with dozens of ancient oak trees growing in it.
Estate "Kuskovo"
Thus, according to paragraph 1 of Art. 222 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, the construction of a highway in Kuskovo is an unauthorized construction and after this section is built, The highway should be demolished as an unauthorized construction.
The highway is being laid in Veshnyaki along the protective zone of the federal cultural heritage site of the 370-year-old Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The highway at this point covers a plot of land that “located in a zone with special conditions for the use of territories” (clause 4 of article 222 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation).
Thus, this section of the highway also falls under the new wording of Art. 222 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. The section of the chord in accordance with clause 4 of Art. 222 is an unauthorized construction, and after construction is completed the highway in this place should also be demolished as an unauthorized construction.
The highway is being laid at a distance from the Temple building that is four times less than the permissible and safe distance. The physical condition of the ancient Temple, built in 1644, was not examined in accordance with the requirements of MDS 11-17 of 2004 - “Rules for the inspection of buildings ... for liturgical ... purposes,” which should have been done before the start of the project in order to find out whether the Temple building would withstand vibration loads from the traffic flow of the motorway, and is it even possible to build a chord in this place for this reason.
Such loads inevitably cause subsidence of the foundations of nearby buildings. For the ancient Temple, the value of these permissible drawdowns is set to no more than 5 mm (SP 22.13330.2011, Appendix L). The project calculates these drawdowns for the Temple fence and outbuildings on its territory. But for the Temple building itself there is no calculation in the project. The calculation was either not made or not published because it showed a greater drawdown than 5 mm. That is, the fact that the Temple will be destroyed is hidden in the project. As a result, the Temple will be destroyed by vibrations from the flow of cars at 10,000 per hour. The lives of praying parishioners are at risk.
Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Veshnyaki
The chord highway is being laid in Veshnyaki for 3 kilometers over three tunnels of Moscow’s largest sewer collector, through which 3 million cubic meters of wastewater flows to the Lyubertsy aeration station every day - this is half of Moscow’s wastewater.
Thus, the motorway chord passes “in the right-of-way of utility networks” and, according to paragraph 4 of the new edition of Art. 222 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, is an unauthorized construction, which, after completion of construction must also be demolished as an unauthorized construction.
The diameters of the collector tunnels are 3, 4 and 6 meters; they were built 50 years ago and, according to the workers involved in their repair, the walls of the tunnels are so rotten that they can be pierced right through with a crowbar. They are repaired (“sanitized”), but the strength of the walls cannot be restored. To restore strength, tunnels must be rebuilt and designed for new loads and new external operating conditions.
The right of way of utility networks (protection zone) of the sewer collector in the conditions of water-saturated soils of Veshnyakov, according to the “Regulations for the operation of the Moscow sewer network (DHKH and B 2006)”, is 50 meters on each side, into which the highway falls. The construction of the motorway on top of the collector and in its security zone is prohibited by the construction standards and urban planning standards (SP 34.13330.2012 clause 6.36; SP 42.13330.2011, P.P. 12.33; 12.34; STO 2.17.66-2012, clause 6.4. 2.; 6.4.7.; 6.4.8.).
If the highway is not demolished as an unauthorized construction, then during its operation the walls of the collector tunnels will not withstand new loads from the weight of the highway road surface, the weight and vibration of the traffic flow of 10,000 cars per hour and will constantly collapse along the entire length of the collector located under the highway. The road surface will collapse into these gaps. The highway and collector will not be able to be used. Half of Moscow residents will be left without water and sewerage. The residential areas adjacent to the highway, the Kuskovo forest park, the Temple, the railway, and the metro will be flooded with fecal waste.
The fact that the new version of Art. 222 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation requires that the highway be built after its construction in Veshnyaki was demolished says that it is impossible to build a chord in Veshnyaki.
New edition of Art. 222 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation considers the following buildings to be unauthorized and subject to demolition:
— « the permitted use of which does not allow the construction of this facility on it”;
— which “located in an area with special conditions for the use of territories”;
— which is located "in the right-of-way of utility networks."
Article 222 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation prohibits the construction of a highway on such land plots. It must be built in accordance with the General Plan in the Ryazan region of the South-Eastern Administrative District. There it will not be subject to demolition.
Until now, the highway construction project in Veshnyaki violated all existing federal laws and laws of the city of Moscow in this area, without exception, which we have repeatedly reported to the Moscow Government. Now the project has switched to violating new laws that came out after its completion.
As of February 14, 2016, 121,359 Russian citizens signed a petition addressed to the President of the Russian Federation and the Mayor of Moscow, demanding to ban the construction of the North-Eastern Expressway on the lands of the forest park of the federal cultural heritage site of the Kuskovo estate. Including their family members, the number of protesters is several hundred thousand people. The Moscow government does not notice these protests.
Residents of the Veshnyaki district in accordance with Art. 222 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation requires the Moscow Government prevent unauthorized construction of a section of the highway in Veshnyaki, cancel the project and move the construction of the highway to its rightful place, established by the General Plan of Moscow - 1st Veshnyakovsky proezd, Ryazansky district of the South-Eastern Administrative District.
On behalf of the initiative group
"Save Veshnyaki" architect
I.N. Kuznetsova
The next and most difficult section of the North-East Expressway is planned to be completed in 2018. It will connect the M11 Moscow-St. Petersburg toll highway and Dmitrovskoye Highway. Today, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin inspected the progress of road construction and was pleased with the pace of work.
“We have begun the most difficult section of the Moscow road network. One plot to the street. We have already completed the festival section, and 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,” the Moscow agency quotes the mayor.
In Moscow, it is not the first or even the second year that three major roads have been built - the North-Eastern Expressway, the North-Western and Southern Roads. However, as it turned out, not all townspeople know what it is and why it is needed. So MOSLENTA decided to remind and start with the North-East.
From where and where
The North-Eastern Expressway (another name is “Northern Road”) will connect the south-east and north of Moscow along the periphery, i.e. the most densely populated areas of the city. It began to be built as a continuation of the only already constructed section of the Fourth Transport Ring (ChTK, it was abandoned). The route will also connect major highways in the northeast: Izmailovskoye, Shchelkovskoye, Dmitrovskoye, Altufevskoye and Otkrytoye highways, which will reduce road congestion.
The total length of the road will be 29 km. The highway will run from the M11 Moscow-Petersburg toll highway on the western side of the Oktyabrskaya Railway, along the Small Ring of the Moscow Railway to a new interchange on the Moscow Ring Road at the intersection with the Veshnyaki-Lyubertsy highway.
Section of the North-Eastern Expressway under construction from Festivalnaya Street to Dmitrovskoe Highway
Conventionally, it is divided into several sections, which are now in different stages of readiness:
From Businovskaya interchange to Festivalnaya street (opened in 2014);
From Festivalnaya Street to Dmitrovskoe Highway (under construction, inspected today);
From Dmitrovskoye to Yaroslavskoye highway (projected);
From Yaroslavskoye to Otkrytoye Shosse (route not determined);
From Otkrytoye to Shchelkovskoe highway (projected);
From Shchelkovskoye to Izmailovskoye highway (under construction);
From Izmailovskoye Highway to Entuziastov Highway (under construction);
From the Entuziastov highway to the interchange at 8 km of the MKAD "Veshnyaki-Lyubertsy" (projected).
Related infrastructure
The North-East Expressway is being built at a rapid pace. In September, a year earlier than planned, several facilities were commissioned at once on the section from Shchelkovskoye to Izmailovskoye Highway: two overpasses of the main route and one as part of a three-level interchange at the intersection of the highway with Shchelkovskoye Highway. This section will be completed by the end of the year.
Also, a lot of additional road infrastructure will be built on the road:
Overpass of the main route No. 1, 333 meters long with four lanes;
The left overpass of the main route No. 2 is 1.5 kilometers long with four lanes;
The right overpass of the main route No. 2 is 1.56 kilometers long with four lanes;
Overpass of the main route No. 4, 600 meters long with three lanes in each direction;
Three overpass ramps with a total length of 977 meters;
A railway overpass 189 meters long on the connecting branch of the Oktyabrskaya Railway;
The bridge over the Likhoborka River is 169 meters long with six lanes in one direction and five in the opposite direction. This width of the bridge is needed to connect the next section of the chord - from Dmitrovskoye Highway to Yaroslavskoye.
Pumping station "Khovrinskaya", serving the districts of Khovrino, Koptevo, Savelovsky, Timiryazevsky;
Underground pedestrian crossing near the Oktyabrskaya Railway platform;
Two wastewater treatment plants;
Five thousand window blocks will be replaced with noise-proof ones.
Benefit
The highway, together with all these structures, should significantly make life easier for four million citizens, the authorities are confident. For example, end-to-end communication will be established between the regions of the South-Eastern Administrative District, the Northern Administrative District and the Eastern Administrative District, bypassing the center, and new public transport routes will appear. It will be especially convenient for residents of the Golovinsky, Koptevo and Timiryazevsky districts.
An undoubted advantage for drivers is that there will be no traffic lights. The average travel time will be reduced by more than 15 percent, the Moscow Ring Road will be decongested by 20–25 percent, and traffic flows on the Third Ring Road, Shchelkovskoye Highway, Entuziastov Highway, as well as Ryazansky and Volgogradsky Avenues will be intelligently redistributed. Well, those traveling along the M11 Moscow-St. Petersburg highway will not need to look for ways to the center.
History of the concept
The idea of creating chords in Moscow was proposed back in the first half of the 20th century. In the 1930s, the famous planner and urbanist Anatoly Yakshin spoke about them. Later, already in the 1970s, his students, including the leading Russian expert in the field of transport planning, Alexander Strelnikov, again returned to discussing this topic.
Construction of a section of the North-East Expressway
Photo: Vitaly Belousov / RIA Novosti
Although in those days there were few cars on the streets of the capital, they already thought that their number would grow. Therefore, the concept of chords was included in the city general plan of 1971. In addition to the Moscow Ring Road and the Garden Ring, two new ring roads and four high-speed chord highways were designed. However, then the projects remained on paper. Gradually, the areas where roads were going to be built were built up, and the money was eventually invested in the Third Transport Ring, and then in the Fourth.
The idea to build chords was resurrected only in 2011. Then the authorities abandoned the construction of the Fourth Transport Ring, which was previously part of the general plan. The main reason is the prohibitively high cost, which exceeded a trillion rubles.
Instead of the ChTK, they decided to build three new highways: the North-Western Expressway, the North-East Expressway (another name is the Northern Road) and the Southern Road. These roads should ultimately form an open ring system. The result will be the same ring, but more efficient in terms of distribution of traffic flows, because each element will connect to the Moscow Ring Road. According to experts, this principle of traffic management is 20 percent more efficient than a closed ring road. In addition, the three new expressways will not pass through the congested city center.
Data provided by the official portal of the Moscow Construction Complex
The diagrams were also placed for review on the ground floor of the Sviblovo district government building. And the public hearings themselves are scheduled for August 20. There will be a large-scale reconstruction of a huge area of the north-east of the city, and information about this will be useful not only for cyclists, but also for pedestrians and, of course, motorists.
Here are just a few proposed changes: near the Sviblovo metro station, all surface pedestrian crossings will be removed and a circular car traffic system will be made, the street Amundsen want to continue to New Beringov right across the square(!), at the crossroads Yenisei And Pilot Babushkin There will also be a roundabout for cars, and a huge six-lane overpass (that same expressway) will become a new transit highway in our district. Now let's talk about everything in order.
TPU "Sviblovo"
01. This is what the picture of what they are going to build looks like. 
02. Although there are a lot of documents and various schematic images on TPU, it’s not easy to figure out what’s what.
This is what the plan of the entire area to be reconstructed looks like 
03. The most important document in materials on TPU "Sviblovo" this one: “PROJECT PLANNING OF THE TERRITORY OF THE TRANSPORTATION JOINT (TPU) SVIBLOVO State Unitary Enterprise “MOSCOW METROPOLITAN”.
The text is placed inside the file "Approved part. Corrected".
The very essence of what is planned to be done is in the Explanatory Note and it is written in a more or less understandable language.
We will publish this “note” in full:
Explanatory note
on planning organization of territory and construction, reconstruction of capital construction projects. The territory allocated for the formation of a transport hub is located on multifunctional public areas and sections of the road network in the area of the Sviblovo metro station.
The development area of the planning project is 10.23 hectares.
The territory of the transport hub, allocated within the boundaries of the planning project, is 8.27 hectares.
The land survey area of the transport hub is 10.23 hectares. The formation of a transport hub in the area of the Sviblovo metro station provides for:
- construction of an underground-overground complex with service facilities with access to bus stops and an entrance to the metro station;
- construction of stop pavilions with service facilities connected to the metro station lobby;
- construction of a hotel with accommodation on the ground floor of an interdistrict multifunctional center.
The transport solution of the transport hub project includes the reorganization of the street and road network with a reduction in controlled intersections due to the arrangement of a roundabout at the intersection of Kolskaya, Novy Beringova Proezd, Amundsen and Raduzhnaya streets in accordance with the established red lines. For the convenience of passenger movement, the planning project proposes the organization of canopies over the metro and stop pavilions to ensure comfortable communication between the stops of ground urban passenger transport and the entrances to the metro. At the ground level in the areas where transport hubs are planned to be located, 11 dimensions of buildings and structures are determined.
The project provides for changing the boundaries of the PK object (No. 99-SVAO “Square at the intersection of Snezhnaya and Kola streets”) in accordance with the established red lines. The reduction in area is fully compensated by the inclusion in the PC of plots No. 10, No. 11 and No. 14 with a total area of 0.40 hectares.
04. What is written in this text? Perhaps the most important news is the loss of the park near the metro. StreetAmundsenThe square will be “cut” and a circular car traffic pattern will be created. There will be little left of the green zone. The designer's representative convinced us at the Administration that the road "will go between the trees." Somewhere here...
05. And here too there will be a road
06. Or maybe you can successfully “build in” automobile traffic here!? In general, it seems that the park will no longer exist. It's a pity.
07. Here is an interesting “diagram” from presentation materials that “seems to” talk about the problems of pedestrians in this place.
It is not very clear who from the University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs follows this arrow. Quite the contrary, they move more on the other side, around Sviblovo shopping center. But the main thing here is more red. Like “everything is bad here, but it will be good.”
08. Another important topic is pedestrian crossings. This is what human flows look like in the designers' documents.
The scheme is, in principle, correct. But the desire to drive pedestrians “underground” is not the best option. 
According to the project, all pedestrian overpasses near the Sviblovo metro station will be converted into underground ones!!!
09. These land crossings will not exist 
10. This pedestrian crossing will not exist either.
11. This won't happen either. 
12. And this land crossing will disappear. Everything is underground!
Car enthusiasts might probably like this. Well, what will pedestrians, cyclists, and people with strollers say? 
13. Everything looks great in the pictures at the office. There are escalators to the street, navigation, and even GROUND CROSSINGS with a zebra crossing and a traffic light (look at the middle photo below)! Strange right?! According to the plan, only underground passages, but in the picture they showed a normal crossing and a zebra crossing! In response to our remark, the designer’s representative threw up his hands: “There are errors in the materials, that’s true... On our map, the name of the street was mixed up... Sorry.”
Although it would be more correct to cross out this photo with a zebra with a big red marker. 
14. There is also a presentation at the council about green spaces. It is unclear where exactly this bench will be placed.
15. Probably on the spot Square A few trees will be left, and they will find a place for a bench there.
The fact is that several years ago two shopping centers were built near the Sviblovo metro station. It is clear that now they will not demolish them, but will widen roads and build facilities TPU Now it is possible only at the expense of the last green territory, that is, at the expense of the Square.
This is what the “public space” near the metro looks like now. Continuous shopping malls... 
16. Whether the famous “stop with a pine tree” will survive after all this construction “mix” is also unknown... 
In general, here it is TPU "Sviblovo" will build. It is important to have time to make comments and make suggestions. There are many questions: the fence of house 28 Snezhnaya(something needs to be done with it), hotel, parking, location of OT stops, etc.
Northeast chord
17. All information materials can be viewed.It is almost impossible to make out anything on the maps.
But if you download this file to your computer, you will receive a very detailed map of our area and the places where the chord will go. You can look at the map itself and the objects marked on it for a long time: magnification allows you to see some details...
18. For example, a new type of street crossing has been discovered Yeniseiskaya And Pilot Babushkin.
They want to organize a roundabout for cars here.
19. Cyclists, of course, are interested in how intersections with the chord will be organized at popular intersections: with Serebryakova passing through, With Agricultural Street, with the street Wilhelm Pieck, with the street Snezhnaya etc. By the way, the construction of such large highways always entails the reconstruction of adjacent streets.
For example, 1st Botanichesky passage According to the planning project for the new residential area, it will become a 4-lane highway...
20. For example, now many cyclists and pedestrians use these ground crossings near the 1st Botanichesky passage. What will happen after the construction of the chord is unclear.
21. The further cycling route to the side is also important VDNH: under the canvas Moscow Ring Railway and along the construction site Chinese Business Center. Nowadays there are few pedestrians and it is convenient to travel by bicycle. How will bicycle and pedestrian flows be organized in this section after such a large-scale construction of the highway and TPU "Botanical Garden" not reported yet.
Questions about how vehicular traffic, cycling and pedestrian passage will be organized need to be asked to designers now. Within the framework of Public Hearings, including. And taking into account also the plans of the city authorities to build several huge residential areas in the north-east of the capital (you can read about this also), it can be assumed that in the coming years, car traffic, bicycle routes and the existing pedestrian infrastructure in these areas of the city can greatly change. We'll see in which direction very soon.
For those who are not on vacation), we provide details on the Public Hearings:
Meetings participants of public hearings will take place on August 20, 2015 at 19:00 at the following addresses:
According to the project for planning the territory of a linear road network object: a section of the North-Eastern Expressway from the Otkrytoe Highway to the Yaroslavl direction of the Moscow Railway, including the reconstruction of the Bogorodsky overpass.
