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 end up 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 pass the North-Eastern Expressway, 35 kilometers long, running 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.
It is planned to complete all construction work on the North-Western Expressway and launch the entire highway 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 include existing roads, which will be reconstructed and expanded.
According to the plans of the city authorities, the Southern Road will run from Balaklavsky Prospekt through a tunnel under Varshavskoye Shosse, 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 of Warsaw Highway and Balaklava 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.
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 end up 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 pass the North-Eastern Expressway, 35 kilometers long, running 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.
It is planned to complete all construction work on the North-Western Expressway and launch the entire highway 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 include existing roads, which will be reconstructed and expanded.
According to the plans of the city authorities, the Southern Road will run from Balaklavsky Prospekt through a tunnel under Varshavskoye Shosse, 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 of Warsaw Highway and Balaklava 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.
The North-Eastern Expressway is a first-class citywide main street under construction with continuous traffic. It will run from the Businovskaya interchange along Zelenogradskaya Street. It will cross 4th Likhachevsky Lane and further to the transport interchange with the Northern Road. After which the main line, crossing the tracks of the Oktyabrskaya Railway, will turn east and go along the Small Ring of the Moscow Railway to the Ryazan direction of the Moscow Railway. Further along the railway tracks to the interchange of the Moscow Ring Road with the built section of the new toll federal highway "Moscow - Noginsk - Kazan", which within the borders of Moscow will be a first-class main street of citywide importance. Kosinskoye Highway will become part of the new federal road.
The north-eastern highway will connect major highways in the north-eastern part of Moscow: Izmailovskoye, Shchelkovskoye, Dmitrovskoye, Altufevskoye and Otkrytoye highways.
Northern Rokada is a first-class city-wide main street under construction with continuous traffic. The Rokada has a joint section with the North-Eastern Expressway, 4 lanes wide for both directions - from the Businovskaya interchange to the interchange proper with the temporary storage warehouse at the intersection of the Rokada connecting railway branch No. 2 of the Likhobory station - Khovrino station. Further, the highway, still passing from the western side of the ORR, will have 3 lanes in each direction. After the junction with the temporary storage warehouse, an exit to Likhoborskaya embankment will be built. Then, crossing Cherepanov Passage, the street will extend to the transport interchange with the North-Western Expressway at the intersection with Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street. After which it will exit onto Dmitrovskoye Highway using the existing highway junction with Valaamskaya Street. The exit point will have 2 lanes in each direction.
On the section of the Northern Road from Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street to Dmitrovskoye Shosse, a dividing strip and retaining walls will be provided, taking into account the future extension of the highway to Akademika Korolev Street.
According to the project, the North-Eastern Expressway consists of the following sections (from east to north):
Section of the Veshnyaki - Lyubertsy highway in the Kozhukhovo microdistrict (Kosinskoe highway)
The section where the Moscow Ring Road intersects with the Veshnyaki - Lyubertsy highway (Kosinskaya overpass).
Plot from the Moscow Ring Road on the street. Krasny Kazanets to the Veshnyakovsky overpass.
The section from the Veshnyakovsky overpass to the former 4th transport ring along the 1st Mayovka alley and st. Anosova.
A section of the former 4th transport ring to the Oktyabrskaya railway line.
Zelenogradskaya street to the Businovskaya interchange of the Moscow Ring Road.
History of construction
In December 2008, construction of the Veshnyaki-Lyubertsy highway began.
On October 26, 2009, a 4-kilometer section of the Veshnyaki-Lyubertsy highway was opened from Projected Proezd 300 to the street. Bolshaya Kosinskaya.
On September 3, 2011, a kilometer-long section of the Veshnyaki-Lyubertsy highway from Bolshaya Kosinskaya to the MKAD and an interchange with the outer side of the MKAD was opened.
On November 24, 2011, the construction of the interchange of the Veshnyaki - Lyubertsy section with the inner side of the Moscow Ring Road and the exit to Krasny Kazanets Street was completed.
On March 27, 2013, construction of an 8-lane highway along Zelenogradskaya Street began.
On January 30, 2014, traffic was opened on two overpasses of the section of the North-Eastern Expressway from the highway. Enthusiasts to Izmailovskoye Highway.
On December 24, 2014, traffic was opened on the highway from the Businovskaya interchange to the interchange with Festivalnaya Street.
On March 18, 2015, construction began on the section from Izmailovskoye Highway. to Shchelkovsky highway (construction is scheduled to be completed in 2017).
On December 29, 2015, construction began on the section from Festivalnaya Street. to Dmitrovskoe highway (construction is planned to be completed at the end of 2018)
Currently, work on the construction of three new highways is in full swing in the capital: the North-Western and North-Eastern Expressways, as well as the South Road.
North-East Expressway
Length North-East Expressway will be about 29 kilometers. It must, bypassing the center of the capital, urban areas in the north and southeast of Moscow, which are considered the most densely populated.
The highway will pass through the largest highways in the northeast of the capital - Dmitrovskoye, Altufevskoye, Otkrytoye, and Izmailovskoye highways, allowing them to significantly relieve congestion. The chord is being laid from the Moscow-St. Petersburg toll road 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.
There will be a railway overpass on the section of the North-Eastern Expressway from Festivalnaya Street to Dmitrovskoye Shosse. It is necessary to accommodate branch No. 2 of the Moscow railway junction, which connects the Khovrino and Likhobory stations.
On this site it is also planned to build 4 road overpasses, two overpasses over the railway tracks and additional ramps to them. This will allow residents of nearby areas to significantly save time on travel to Dmitrovskoye Highway. Currently, in order to get onto the highway, you have to make a detour. The opening of this section will allow access to the highway directly in the area of the Petrovsko-Razumovskaya metro station.
The North-Eastern Expressway is divided into sections:
- From Businovskaya interchange to Festivalnaya street (put into operation in 2014);
- From Festivalnaya Street to Dmitrovskoe Highway (under construction);
- From Dmitrovskoe highway to Yaroslavskoe highway (projected);
- From Yaroslavskoye to Otkrytoye Shosse (route not determined);
- From Otkrytoye to Shchelkovskoe highway (projected);
- From Shchelkovskoe highway to Izmailovskoe highway (everything was built except the tunnel over Shchelkovskoe highway);
- From Izmailovskoye Highway to Entuziastov Highway (under construction);
- From the Entuziastov highway to the interchange at the 8th kilometer of the MKAD Veshnyaki - Lyubertsy (projected).
These strange words in the title are the names of grandiose road construction projects in Moscow. One way or another, you have heard them - North-East Chord, North-Western Chord and South Rokada. - just an exit from the Shchelkovskoe highway to the temporary storage warehouse towards the Entuziastov highway. Now let's look at these construction sites from the air. The first part on temporary storage was published by me in May -.
In Moscow in 2016, 104 km of roads were built, which is a record construction.
In total, over the past 6 years (from 2011 to 2016), 544 km of roads were built and put into operation (about 12.5% of the entire existing road network of the city), including:
- 162 artificial structures (overpasses, tunnels and bridges) and 160 off-street pedestrian crossings were built;
- 8 outbound highways (126 km) were reconstructed, full-fledged backup routes were created, as well as dedicated lanes for public transport with a total length of 150 km (this is 60% of the entire length of the existing dedicated lanes in the city - 250 km), 350 drive-in pockets were created;
- 13 largest and most complex transport interchanges were built and reconstructed at the intersection of highways with the Moscow Ring Road.
In 2017-2019 it is planned to ensure the commissioning of roads with a length of 353 km; build 61 artificial structures and 36 pedestrian crossings.
All aerial surveys were completed sturman from urbanoid.pro. On his YouTube channel you can find a lot of interesting videos.
1. The diagram shows the mileage only by chord: how much has already been done, what is in the works, and what is still being designed. 
2. Let's start with the South Rokada, where at the intersection with the Varshavskoe highway the first stage of construction is in full swing - the construction of an overpass for the Varshavskoe highway. 
3. Site diagram. 
.::clickable::.
4. The second stage, as far as I understand, will be the construction of a tunnel for the South Rokada. At least there is such a scheme and rendering. 
5. We managed to fly, right before the squall. 
6. The construction of the railway tunnel will be completed, as usual, without stopping traffic. 
7. And now the famous T-junction in the air. This is the junction of the Southern understudy of Kutuzovsky Prospekt with Mosfilmovskaya Street. 
8. Monster scheme. 
.::clickable::.
9. Connection of the Southern understudy of Kutuzovsky Prospekt with Mosfilmovskaya Street. 
10. A reserve has been left in the center of the road for the continuation of the southern backup route to the center, along the railway. 
11. The southern understudy will go to the left and the appendix will be connected to it. 
12. But a very unusual look, of course. 
13. And this is the interchange of the Southern understudy of Kutuzovsky Prospekt with the Southern Rokada. It is also drawn in the diagram above. 
14. The most delicious thing is the construction of a new bridge across the Moscow River on the North-Western Expressway section. 
15. Site diagram. 
.::clickable::.
16. It is being built parallel to the existing Krylatsky Bridge. 
17. The span structure of the old bridge is made in the form of a continuous steel beam with a ride on top, the span formula is 51.2 + 90.0 + 51.2 m. The structure is based on two box-shaped beams 2.5 m high, 2.74 m wide, covered with an orthotropic slab. The beams rest on two common V-shaped supports. The total width of the bridge is 25.4 m, including the roadway - 18.0 m (4 lanes). As far as I understand, the new bridge will be a copy of the old one according to the design. 
18. Section of the North-Western Expressway from the bridge to the Northern alternate route of Kutuzovsky Prospekt. 
19. And this is the beginning of work on the construction of a 300-meter cable-stayed bridge across lock No. 9 
20. It will connect Narodnogo Opolcheniya Street with Nizhniye Mnevniki above the gateway along an oblique line, not far from the existing small Karamyshevsky Bridge. At the same time, they plan to create pedestrian zones and an observation deck on the suspension bridge. 
21. View towards the junction of Marshal Zhukov Avenue and Narodnogo Opolcheniya Street. 
22. And already in the evening we stopped at the construction of the North-Eastern Expressway in the Festivalnaya Street area. 
23. Site diagram. Note the gray branch to the east. If you want to familiarize yourself, here is a link to another diagram. 
.::clickable::.
24. Partially commissioned interchange of the temporary storage warehouse with Festivalnaya Street. 
25. Damn beautiful. 
26. View towards the Moscow Ring Road. 
27. If anyone has forgotten, then the diagram is for an already built site. By the way, when we were walking under the overpasses, there was a surveillance camera on each support!!! There are no dead zones at all. Holy shit. 
.::clickable::.
28. View towards the NATI platform, Likhobory MCC, Likhobory depot LDL. 
29. See that in order to save the access railway line, the pitch of the supports had to be changed. 
30. View towards Festivalnaya. 
31. Interchange of the temporary storage warehouse with the section that will go to the east. 
32. Station "Likhobory" MCC. 
33. Likhobory station and temporary storage area under construction. 
34. Interchange at the temporary storage warehouse. On the right you can see the new depot "" of the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line. 
35. And 3D panoramas. To watch and play them, welcome here: https://urbanoid.pro/pano/17_08_05_roads.html 
36. Grand construction. 
37. Moscow is changing before our eyes 
38. In total, over the past 6 years, 561 km of roads have been built in Moscow. This is approximately 12.5% of the entire existing road network of the city. Reconstruction of 13 transport interchanges at the intersection of major highways with the Moscow Ring Road and 8 outbound highways was carried out. The length of backup and dedicated public transport lanes was about 150 km. In 2017-2019 it is planned to ensure the commissioning of roads with a length of 353 km; build 61 artificial structures and 36 pedestrian crossings. 
39. Happy upcoming Builder's Day! 
