How will the Central Ring Road work? Live magazine of the Moscow region. Future development concept

About the construction of the Central Ring RoadOnly the lazy didn't hear. How will this project turn out for the Moscow region? The government is talking about solving transport problems, but many environmental organizations have expressed their negative attitude towards it, because construction will seriously affect the ecology of the region. Greenpeace's position on the Central Ring Road: the new route will destroy the entire forest protection belt of Moscow.
I understand that most residents of the region most likely don’t care about environmental problems, but it will be unpleasant for them to lose their “6 acres” due to the construction of the highway. Now, residents of the village of Petrovskoye have already organized a public gathering, since the route will affect their settlement

In order to clearly see where exactly the route will pass, and to see which areas will fall under construction, I asked my friend Nikolai Okhotnikov to mark the Central Ring Road on the map. Here is the result of his work

“The map has been prepared on the basis of a detailed description of the planned area for the location of the Central Ring Road, given in section 3.1.1 of the “Territorial Planning Scheme of the Moscow Region”, approved by Decree of the Government of the Moscow Region dated July 11, 2007 No. 517/23. There are at least three more resolutions of the Government of the Moscow Region on the same topic, but they have now lost force, and it is the “Territorial Planning Scheme” that is relevant.

The map is not difficult to understand. Here the thick red line is the line connecting the key points described in the “Spatial Planning Scheme”. The area where the route is located is highlighted in orange. Using this map you can assess how much the construction of the Central Ring Road will affect you. In this case, you need to keep the following in mind.

Marks on the map may have an error of several tens of meters due to inaccurate geolocation, distortion of satellite images, etc. Therefore, if you see that the construction zone runs right through your neighbor’s land, but has not affected yours, this is not a reason to calm down and laugh maliciously at your neighbor. In addition, individual points could not be tied accurately due to inaccuracy or even contradictory descriptions of their location, or due to the indistinguishability of the landmarks to which they are tied. For such points (fortunately there are few of them), the location error can reach several hundred meters, so these points are highlighted on the map with blue markers. By clicking on one of these labels, you can read exactly why the point is inaccurately marked and what the approximate error in its location is.

And one more feature. The construction zone has different widths in different places, but the description does not say exactly how its sections are connected to each other. Therefore, near key points the zone may be marked somewhat incorrectly.

That's all I wanted to say. The map itself is available at the following link:

Keep in mind that the construction zone is not the track itself. The road is obviously smaller in width and will pass inside the marked “corridor”, and what will happen to the remaining part of the territory: whether it will remain untouched, or whether it will be used for the construction of roadside and industrial facilities (which, in my opinion, is more likely) is still unknown. Therefore, if your property is in the “orange zone”, or is located close to it, I advise you to do the following.

Study carefully the public cadastral map.

All plots included in the cadastre are marked on it, and if land allocation for the Central Ring Road in your area is completed, you will see the exact boundaries of the corresponding land plot.

Find out if your community has approved a master plan. If yes, then the Central Ring Road route will also be shown on the maps.

Find out which newspapers publish official announcements and documents of your settlement and municipal area. Check these publications regularly: they will publish an announcement about holding public hearings, which you must attend - there you can not only clarify exactly how they are going to lay the road, but also express your disagreement with the project.

Without waiting for public hearings, unite with your neighbors - after all, if the road passes through your locality, it will be bad for everyone. Organize an initiative group, enlist the support of a competent lawyer, write appeals to the regional government, attract the attention of the press with mass actions - and you will have a good chance of “pushing” the highway away from your homes. Good luck!

Motorists who have to drive along the Pyatnitskoye Highway from Zelenograd towards the region could not help but notice the large-scale deforestation that is taking place at the intersection of the highway with the “small concrete road” (also known as the Small Moscow Ring, also known as the A107 highway) and along the “ concrete blocks." Yes, an interchange will be built there and the road will be expanded, but this is only a small part of a global project called “construction of the Central Ring Road.” What this project implies, in what time frame it will be implemented and how it will change car traffic in the west of the Moscow region and, in particular, in the vicinity of Zelenograd - I’ll tell you with diagrams, pictures of interchanges and photos of nice old trucks. :) (Most of the information in the post is from the Avtodora website, other information is indicated separately.)

So, the Central Ring Road is a highway that is being built on the territory of New Moscow and the Moscow region. It is supposed to be made primarily paid. The total length of the Central Ring Road will be approximately 530 kilometers. 339 of them will form a ring that will run parallel to the “small concrete road”, while bypassing populated areas. An exception in terms of bypassing the population will be several sections, including a large section from the Leningradskoye Shosse to Zvenigorod - due to the lack of space for new construction, everything here will be limited to the reconstruction of the existing A107 highway. At the same time, travel on it will remain free.

As “compensation,” a duplicate of this section will be built 30 kilometers to the west (marked with a dotted line in the diagram above and in burgundy and purple colors in the diagram below). It will pass approximately at the level of the existing “big concrete road” (aka the Great Moscow Ring, also known as the A108 highway) and will cross the Leningradskoye Highway just south of Klin. This backup section will be connected to the “small ring” of the Central Ring Road in the Naro-Fominsk region and through continuation of New Leningradka (M11 highway), for the construction of which they are now again looking for a co-investor.

The entire construction of the Central Ring Road is divided into five launch complexes. “Long-range backup” is the second launch complex, the implementation of which, according to according to TASS , are going to start after 2020. But Avtodor intends to complete the main ring of the Central Ring Road in 2018, although for two of the four remaining launch complexes there are no signed agreements with co-investors yet - for now, competitive proposals are only being considered.
The section of the route closest to Zelenograd is part of the fifth launch complex (the darkest section on the map below). It is 76 kilometers from Novaya Leningradka approximately to the Kyiv highway. Of these, 28 kilometers are sections of new construction and 48 are sections of “small concrete” that are subject to reconstruction.

Image from the Moscow construction complex website (clickable)

The reconstruction, which involves widening the road to four lanes with the construction of 3-meter shoulders on each side and a 3-meter dividing strip, has already begun. These photographs were taken between Pyatnitskoye and Volokolamsk highways. Somewhere else they are just cutting down forest along the highway...

And somewhere they are already in full swing preparing a “cushion” for the future road surface.

In these photographs, in my opinion, the scale of what was and what will be is perfectly clear.

I couldn’t resist taking a close-up photo of the Tatra dump truck from my childhood. I haven’t seen such people for a hundred years - I thought we didn’t have much of them anymore, but it turned out that they are mainly working on the construction of the Central Ring Road in our area.

Here is a diagram of the fifth launch complex of the Central Ring Road. It will have 26 bridge crossings and five interchanges: at the intersections with Leningradskoye, Pyatnitskoye, Volokolamsk and Minsk highways, as well as at the bypass of Zvenigorod (Zvenigorod will actually have two interchanges, but formally they are considered two different stages of one object).

Here is a short video presentation of the fifth launch complex.

The video contains a visualization of the interchange project at the intersection of the future Central Ring Road with Leningradskoe Highway. Here she is. Leningradka goes from top to bottom, the Central Ring Road goes horizontally. To the left of M10 is the current “betonka” road, to the right is the currently non-existent continuation towards Novaya Leningradka.

This is what this interchange looks like in the diagram from Avtodor’s presentation materials.

It was not possible to find a visualization for the interchange with Pyatnitskoye Highway - only a diagram.

It was with the mention of this place that I began my post. This is what it looks like now.

The place is unrecognizable. Just last fall, there was a forest close to the intersection on all sides, but now there is a large bare area, allowing you to view the area in all directions. The scale of deforestation is impressive. The forest, of course, is a pity, but here it is really being cut down for a necessary purpose, and the question of why exactly here (as opposed to the route along which Novaya Leningradka was laid) does not arise in this case.

I have been observing this place since the beginning of May and literally until the last days, neither at this intersection, nor on that section of the “concrete road” that we pass on the way to the dacha, there was not a single billboard with information about what was happening here. And just this weekend I noticed two such stands at once.

Literally a few hundred meters from this place the future Central Ring Road will cross (the lower road in the diagram below). However, there will be no direct meeting between them.

The construction of the fifth launch complex of the Central Ring Road is being carried out by Koltsevaya Magistral LLC, with which the state company Avtodor in December 2014 concluded a long-term investment agreement based on the results of the competition. The contract amount exceeds 42.1 billion rubles, with most of this amount coming from federal budget subsidies and funds from the National Welfare Fund, and only 4.8 billion from investment funds. (The total cost of construction of the Central Ring Road, according to TASS, is estimated at 300 billion rubles.) The agreement between Avtodor and Ring Highways will be valid until 2038 - in addition to construction, which, let me remind you, will be completed in 2018, it includes also the subsequent maintenance and repair of the road.

In general, the conversations about the construction of the Central Ring Road, which have been going on for the last ten years, have become so boring during this time that I, I admit, even missed the moment of transition from these conversations to real action. Meanwhile, the official start of road construction was given back in August 2014. True, in the south of the region. In our area, the active phase of work began this spring. And, by the way, I think we were lucky that they didn’t find where to build a new road here, and they will simply expand the old one. The section of the “concrete road” from Leningradka to Volokolamka was previously very good and, as far as I can tell, not very busy, but now it will be even better. Plus, for this purpose, really necessary interchanges will appear at the intersections with Pyatnitsa and Leningradka, which without the Central Ring Road we still would have waited for who knows how long. And all this - unlike other areas of the Moscow region - is free of charge in terms of travel.

(Moscow and Moscow region)

Status: in project\under construction.

The route will pass through the Moscow region, 50 kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road.

The Central Ring Road is a toll highway (with the exception of the 5th launch complex and section No. 5 of the 2nd launch complex).

Description:

Length – 525 (529.02) km.

Number of stripes – 4-8.

Estimated speed – 100-140 km/h.

Alternative: A-107 (Small Moscow Ring, MMK)

Website: http://crusandr.livejournal.com/53249.html, http://4sotki.ru/news-stroim-ckad/;

http://roads.ru/forum/index.php?showforum=461 ; http://russianhighways.ru/for_drivers/CCAD/

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Areas:

The Central Ring Road is divided into 5 launch complexes (PC) or 10 sections.

In addition, there is a small connecting section between 3 PCs and 5 PCs with a length of 5.3 km. It is not included in the launch complexes of the Central Ring Road and the Avtodor Group of Companies is building it at its own expense.

- (km 95+700 - km 209+150 Central Ring Road )

Current status: under construction.

- (km 209+150 - km 298+450 Central Ring Road) and bypass the city of Klin (from km 0+000 to km 28+560)

Current status: in project.

- (km 298+450 km - 403+100 Central Ring Road)

Current status: in project.

- (km 403+100/km 0+000 - km 95+700 Central Ring Road)

Current status: in project.

- (section 10)

Current status: in project.

The construction of the Central Ring Road is divided into 2 stages.

At the first stage, by 2018, 6 out of 10 sections will be built, which form a ring 338.35 km long, practically duplicating the MMK. The road width will be mainly 4 lanes.

At the second stage, from 2020 to 2025, the remaining 4 sections with a length of 190.67 km and a width of 6 lanes will be built, and everything built as part of stage 1 will be expanded from 4 to 6 lanes (in some places up to 8).

Historical facts:

December 30, 2003– for the first time, the Decree of the Government of the Moscow Region established the need for the construction of the Central Ring Road.

2005 year- reservation of land plots in the construction and reconstruction zone of the Central Ring Road.

2005 year- creation of the Open Joint Stock Company "Central Ring Road".

2005-2006– development of justifications for investments in the construction of the Central Ring Road.

December 2007- the government commission approved the concept for implementing the Central Ring Road construction project, and approved the allocation of funds from the Investment Fund of the Russian Federation in the amount of 8.9 billion rubles for the development of project documentation.

2008-2013– development of design and financial and legal documentation for the project.

year 2009- inclusion of the project in the Federal Target Program “Development of the Transport System of Russia (2010-2015)” Came into force on January 1, 2010.

2009 - inclusion of the project in the Avtodor Group of Companies activity program for the long-term period (2010-2020).

2011- the planned start of construction, which was then postponed to year 2014.

In connection with the construction of expressways for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the construction timeline for the Central Ring Road has been pushed back even further. The project was planned to be completed by 2025. However August 2, 2013 it was announced that the ring would be closed in 2018.

July 7, 2011– an order of the Government of the Russian Federation was signed on the transfer of the Central Ring Road to the trust management of the Avtodor Group of Companies.

February 7, 2013– an agreement on cooperation in the field of highway construction was signed by the government of the Moscow region and the state company “Russian Highways” (“Avtodor”).

March 3, 2015– the passport of the investment project “Central Ring Road (CRR) was approved, the financing of the project was approved by the Government.

Regulations:

Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 848 of December 5, 2001 “On the federal target program “Development of the transport system of Russia (2010 - 2020)”.

Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 338 of May 31, 2006 (Subprogram “Development of export of transport services” of the federal target program “Modernization of the transport system of Russia (2002-2010) )»).

Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 377 of May 20, 2008 (Federal Target Program “Development of the Transport System of Russia (2010-2015)”).

Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1724-r dated December 29, 2004 “On the development of pre-design documentation for the construction of the Central Ring Road of the Moscow Region.”

Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1734 of November 22, 2008 “Transport strategy of the Russian Federation for the period until 2030.”

Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 897-r dated June 23, 2008 on approval of the passport of the investment project “Development of project documentation for the implementation of the investment project “Construction of the Central Ring Road of the Moscow Region”, implemented with state support from the Investment Fund of the Russian Federation.

Order of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 2146-r dated December 31, 2009 “Program of activities of the State Company “Russian Highways” for the long-term period (2010 - 2020)” (as amended on April 24, 2013 N 672-r).

Order of the President of the Russian Federation No. Pr-930 dated April 12, 2012 on the start of construction of the Central Ring Road project.

Order of the President of the Russian Federation No. Pr-1474 dated July 5, 2013 on co-financing the construction project of the Central Ring Road of the Moscow Region with the involvement of funds from the National Welfare Fund.

Decree of the Government of the Moscow Region No. 743/48 of December 30, 2003 “On approval of the main directions of sustainable urban development of the Moscow Region.”

Decree of the Government of the Moscow Region No. 735/40 of October 12, 2005 “On measures for the construction and reconstruction of the Central Ring Road in the Moscow Region” (as amended by the Decrees of the Government of the Moscow Region dated May 19, 2006 No. 429/17 and dated December 29, 2006 No. 1251/ 51).

Resolution of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Moscow Region No. 6/974/44 dated December 27, 2005 (“Proposals for the construction of the Central Ring Road”, approved by the board of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Moscow Region on October 26, 2005).

Decree of the Government of the Moscow Region No. 1008/52 of December 30, 2005 “On measures for the development of territories of the Moscow region related to the construction and reconstruction of the Central Ring Road.”

Decree of the Government of the Moscow Region No. 376/16 of 05/04/2006.

Decree of the Government of the Moscow Region No. 1251/51 of December 29, 2006 “On introducing amendments to the resolutions of the Government of the Moscow Region of October 12, 2005 No. 735/40 and of December 30, 2005 No. 1008/52.”

Decree of the Government of the Moscow Region No. 517/23 of July 11, 2007 “On approval of the territorial planning scheme of the Moscow Region - the main provisions of urban development.” (clause 3.1.1. Securing the boundaries of the Central Ring Road location zone).

Decree of the Government of the Moscow Region N 1141/54 of December 22, 2009 “On invalidating certain resolutions of the Government of the Moscow Region in the field of construction and reconstruction of the Central Ring Road.”

Order of the Federal Road Agency No. OB-432-r dated December 30, 2004 “On the implementation of a set of measures to develop feasibility studies for investments in the construction of the Moscow-St. Petersburg expressway and the Central Ring Road (CRR) of the Moscow Region.”

Urban planning task for the project: “Development of justification for investments in the construction of the Central Ring Road of the Moscow Region (CRR)”, approved by the Governor of the Moscow Region B.V. Gromov February 10, 2006

Rates:

The implementation of the investment project is expected to be carried out on the principles of public-private partnership:

• launch complexes No. 1 and 5 - within the framework of long-term investment agreements;
• launch complexes No. 3 and 4 - within the framework of concession agreements.

The involvement of an operator providing services for collecting tolls on a highway will be carried out by concluding an independent agreement on the basis of a separate competitive selection. This is due to the expediency of establishing a single operator operating on the Central Ring Road of the Moscow Region (all launch complexes).

The weighted average fare for travel along the Central Ring Road will be 2 rubles 32 kopecks per kilometer. According to 2009 calculations, drivers of passenger cars will have to pay about 2 rubles per kilometer of travel along the Central Ring Road, about 5 rubles for trucks, and about 7 rubles for heavy vehicles.

Tolls on the Central Ring Road will vary depending on the time of day and type of transport.

Sections No. 5 (from the M-3 "Ukraine" highway to the intersection with the Moscow - St. Petersburg highway) and No. 10 (89 km long, passing through the city of Zvenigorod along the Moscow Small Ring highway) will be free.

It is being discussed that travel on toll sections of the Central Ring Road will be free for residents of the Moscow region.

Designed in accordance with the federal target program “Modernization of the transport system of Russia (2002-2010)”, approved by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated December 5, 2001.

The implementation of the Central Ring Road project will allow solving the following main transport, social and economic problems:

• Relieve the radial exits from Moscow and the city’s street network from the movement of heavy-duty and transit vehicles.
• Rationalize the structure of cargo distribution, “intercept” heavy vehicles at distant approaches to Moscow, followed by re-sorting of goods and sending them to other regions in small batches.
• Create the road component of international transport corridors (ITC) - No. 2 (London - Berlin - Warsaw - Minsk - Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod), No. 9 (Helsinki - St. Petersburg - Moscow - Kyiv - South-Eastern Europe), ITC "North- South" and the MTC "Helsinki - Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod", passing through the territory of the Moscow region.
• To create conditions for the integrated development of infrastructure and territories of Moscow and the Moscow region, as well as adjacent regions - Tver, Yaroslavl, Vladimir, Ryazan, Kaluga, Tula and Smolensk based on the multiplier effect from the construction of the Central Ring Road.
• Intensify social, economic, interregional and international relations, increase the level of mobility of the population and market entities.
• Improve road safety and quality of service for road users.
• Reduce the cost of transportation and the level of transport costs for shippers.
• Reduce the level of negative impact on the environment by unloading the head sections of radial roads in the Moscow region.
• Optimize (reduce) budget expenses during the construction phase by attracting extra-budgetary investments into the project within the framework of concluded concession agreements.
• Optimize (reduce) budget expenses at the operation stage by attracting concessionaires to spend funds on the maintenance of the highway.
• To provide transport infrastructure for the implementation of comprehensive development programs for part of the territories of the Moscow Region, carried out without funding from the budget of the Russian Federation.

Route elements

For design purposes, the highway is divided into 5 launch complexes and 10 sections

1 launch complex:

In the area of ​​the Small Moscow Ring from the M-4 Don highway to the M-1 Belarus highway in the area of ​​the Greater Moscow Ring

(1 section; length 49.9 km; stripes - 4-6 ; interchanges - 3 )

(section 2; length 63.85 km; stripes - 4 ; interchanges 3 )

2 launch complex:

• In the area of ​​the Greater Moscow Ring from the M-1 "Belarus" highway to the Moscow - St. Petersburg expressway

(section 3; length 52.1 km; stripes - 4-6 ; junctions - 3 )

(section 4; length 37.2 km; stripes - 6-8 ; interchanges - 1 )

(section 5; length 28.56 km; stripes - 4-6 ; interchanges - 3 )

3 launch complex:

• In the area of ​​the Small Moscow Ring from the Moscow - St. Petersburg expressway to the M-7 Volga highway

(section 6; length 53.9 km; stripes - 4-6 ; interchanges - 4 )

(section 7; length 50.75 km; stripes - 4-6 ; junctions - 4)

4 launch complex:

• In the area of ​​the Small Moscow Ring from the M-7 Volga highway to the M-4 Don highway

(section 8; length 59.1 km; stripes - 4-8; junctions - 5 )

(section 9; length 36.6 km; stripes - 4-6 ; interchanges - 2 )

5 launch complex:

• In the area of ​​the Small Moscow Ring from the M-3 "Ukraine" highway to the Moscow - St. Petersburg expressway

(section 10; length 89.97 km; stripes - 4 ; junctions - 6 )

TOTAL: length - 521.63, interchanges - 34

Concessions:

1 launch complex - 1 section

3 and 4 launch complexes - 7,8,9 sections

At the investment justification stage, based on economic survey data, a forecast of vehicle traffic intensity was compiled and two scenarios for the development of the Central Ring Road were considered. According to the first scenario, the route was laid with maximum use of the right-of-way and structural elements of the Moscow Small Ring (MMK) and the Moscow Large Ring (MBK), in the second - along a new direction. As a result of a comprehensive analysis, it was found that the A-107 and A-108 highways have parameters of III-IV categories, a significant number of sections with small radius curves in plan and longitudinal slopes exceeding 40%, numerous intersections and junctions at the same level, displacements road sections in the plan. For more than 40 km, the A-107 road passes through the cities of Noginsk, Elektrostal, Bronnitsy, Zvenigorod and other settlements. In these places, the distance to the building is 5-30 m. The reconstruction of these roads according to category I parameters is associated with their almost complete reconstruction and, according to the conclusions made in the Investment Justification, is inappropriate.

Another argument in favor of building a new route is the opportunity to increase road density in the Moscow region. Now one of the reasons for the high traffic intensity on the roads of the Moscow region is the low density of roads. With the level of motorization of the population of the Moscow region comparable to the level of motorization of the population of European countries, the density of the road network in the region is 4 or more times lower than in European countries, the size of which is similar to the territory of the Moscow region. Over ten years, the number of passenger cars has increased sharply, both in Moscow (1.6 times) and in the Moscow region (2.9 times). The number of trucks in Moscow and the Moscow region increased by 2.6 times. The construction of the Central Ring Road will increase the density of paved roads. The new route will become the basis of high-speed highways in the Moscow region. The total length of the highway will be 521.63 km.

Main technical parameters of the central ring road

The highway will be equipped with a modern automatic traffic control system, meteorological observation stations, helipads, emergency communications facilities, driver rest stops and road service areas.

September 1st, 2014

In what order will sections of the Central Ring Road be built?
Let's start with terminology. Almost all media now use the term “plot” and write about “4 plots until 2018.” In fact The Central Ring Road is divided into 5 launch complexes (PC) or 10 sections.


In addition, there is a small connecting section between 3 PCs and 5 PCs with a length of 5.3 km. It is not included in the launch complexes of the Central Ring Road and the Avtodor Group of Companies is building it at its own expense.

Further, construction of the Central Ring Road is divided into 2 stages. At the first stage, by 2018, 6 sections out of 10 will be built, which form a ring 338.35 km long, practically duplicating the MMK. The road width will be mainly 4 lanes. At the second stage, from 2020 to 2025, the remaining 4 sections with a length of 190.67 km and a width of 6 lanes will be built, and everything built under stage 1 will be expanded from 4 to 6 lanes (in some places up to 8).


Construction stages on the animated diagram:

Main technical parameters of the launch complexes of the Central Ring Road.

Will all sections of the Central Ring Road be tolled and how much will it cost?
All sections will be paid, except for 5 PCs - the reconstructed section of the A-107 highway, the so-called Zvenigorod passage “small concrete road”. It is planned that the cost of travel through toll sections for passenger cars will be 2.32 rubles per 1 km.

What benefits will the Central Ring Road bring?
The effect of the road is difficult to overestimate. Moreover, it will be colossal for Moscow, the Moscow region, and Russia as a whole.

Moscow The Central Ring Road will help by absorbing part of the transit and heavy traffic flow from the Moscow Ring Road and ensuring the connectivity of the annexed territories with the Moscow region. Moreover, this will free Moscow from its current role as an all-Russian cargo distribution center, intercepting cargo for other regions at distant approaches with re-sorting and dispatch to regions. Both are powerful means of combating Moscow traffic jams.

Moscow region The Central Ring Road will be even more useful. First of all, it will relieve transit pressure on the “small concrete road” A-107 and the western section of the “large concrete road”, as well as the “head” sections of the radial highways between the Moscow Ring Road and the Central Ring Road. Further, the Central Ring Road will help solve one of the main problems of the Moscow region and Moscow - the lack of jobs in the Moscow region, due to which hundreds of thousands of residents daily participate in “pendulum” migration, traveling to the capital in the morning and home in the evening. According to the authorities, the Central Ring Road will create as many as 200 thousand new jobs! It seems that this assessment is justified: a road of this level will inevitably “attract” more than a dozen investment projects, both production and logistics. And the first applications, according to Governor Vorobyov, have already been received. Let’s not forget about the road service infrastructure: it is already planned to build 32 gas stations with minimarkets and fast food cafes, 30 multifunctional gas stations with 22 cafe-restaurants, 18 service stations, 18 motels along the Central Ring Road.

As for Russia as a whole, The Central Ring Road will make it possible to form chord roads that will become part of four international transport corridors (ITC).

Together with the reconstruction of the main federal highways already underway and planned until 2020 (M-4 Don, M-5 Ural, M-7 Volga, M-8 Kholmogory, M-10 Russia), all this will allow the country to realize its transit potential. Now, it’s funny to say, Russia earns 5% of what it could on transit. And the country’s budget receives less, according to the State Duma Committee on Transport, up to 2.5 trillion. rubles per year. Transit development is an excellent way to resume economic growth, create hundreds of thousands of jobs, and attract additional investment in logistics and oil refining. (More about the transit potential of the Russian Federation).

But that is not all. The effect from the highway, although smaller, is expected for the economies of neighboring regions - Tver, Yaroslavl, Vladimir, Ryazan, Kaluga, Tula and Smolensk. Road safety and travel speed will increase, and people's mobility will increase. The movement of goods within the country will be accelerated and made cheaper, and the competitiveness of any Russian product will increase.

Oddly enough, the level of negative impact on the environment will also decrease: after all, harmful emissions at 5-10 km/h are 4-10 times higher than at speeds of 60-80 km/h.


Why is a new route needed? Why not just reconstruct the ring A-107 or A-108?
This option was considered, but was abandoned for three reasons.

The first reason is social. Both of these roads pass through cities and towns. On A-107, the length of “populated” sections is more than 40 km, the concrete road passes through Noginsk, Elektrostal, Bronnitsy, Zvenigorod and others, the distance to buildings in some places is 5-30 m. When reconstructing up to 6 lanes, it would be necessary to either build a lot of bypasses of cities, or buy a lot of properties. Moreover, in the second option, there would still be many dissatisfied people - after all, only the property being demolished would be bought out, and not the houses of all those who do not want to live next to the transit highway.

The second reason is technical. To make the highway attractive for transit, it must be designed for a speed of 130-150 km/h and haveI technical category. This means very high requirements for curvature, longitudinal slopes, width of shoulders, number of junctions, etc. But neither MMK nor MBK meet these requirements even close! Reconstructing any of them to category I means completely rebuilding it, essentially demolishing the old road and building a new one in its place.

The third reason is urban planning. Considering that in the Moscow region the density of the road network is 4-5 times lower than in European countries with similar population densities, it is much better to have 2 roads, local and transit, and not one hybrid. When reconstructing the MMK or MBK, the “high-speed” route would have both slow local and fast transit traffic. Tractors, passenger buses, local Gazelles, and international heavy trucks would still travel along the same road. In addition, we would have to solve the problem of those hundreds of junctions and intersections that exist on concrete roads now. And either create colossal extra mileage for local traffic of a dozen or two kilometers, or build dozens of extra overpasses and interchanges. It is for this reason that the “Zvenigorodsky Stroke” of the A-107 highway, which is being reconstructed as part of the Central Ring Road, will be 4 lanes wide, it will retain traffic lights (although several interchanges will be built), and it will have only technical category II.

In general, the chosen solution, from my point of view, is optimal.

What will happen to the concrete roads and railway crossings on them?
Both concrete roads will remain free and will be used primarily by local traffic. And all railway crossings will be reconstructed, and overpasses will be built instead. 2 overpasses in Alabino and in White Pillars on A-107 are already being completed.

Overpass under construction on A-107 in White Pillars (clickable)

An overpass under construction on A-107 in Alabino (clickable).

3 more overpasses, in Lvovsky on A-107, in Sharapova Okhota and Lipitino on A-108, will begin to be built this year. Preparations for construction are now underway.

Overpass on A-107 in Lviv (clickable).

Overpass on A-108 in Sharapova Okhota (clickable).

Next up are the Golitsyno and Yurovo crossings on the Small Ring, and Dorokhovo on the Big Ring. The overpass in Golitsyn (Bolshiye Vyazemy) will be built before 2018 under a separate title simultaneously with the 5th launch complex of the Central Ring Road. Overpasses are also planned for the remaining two addresses, with commissioning dates from 2018 to 2020.

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