Route network land transport, named "Magistral". New routes of buses, trolleybuses and trams pass through the center of the capital and the main transport routes. Transport will also run in areas where it has not run since the 1990s. The network will be launched on October 8. What it is for, what routes it will take, how to use it and what to expect in the future - read the website in the material.
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- Public transport in the center of the capital will run twice as often. The average driving interval will be reduced from 16 to 8 minutes;
- The center of the capital will be connected by 17 main routes;
- Total route network will include 370 buses, trolleybuses and trams;
- 103 new buses were specially purchased for the project;
- The number of rolling stock will increase by 39 percent;
- City transport will be able to use more people, passenger traffic will grow by 43 percent.
What is the network for
The first line of routes will be launched in October. New routes, stops and rolling stock will gradually appear. The last stage of the Magistral will be launched in 2017. Together with routes, they will improve road markings and launch dedicated lanes where they help traffic.
The main task of the project is to create a high-quality infrastructure passenger transport in the city center to make it easier for the townspeople to move from one point to another. For example, so that you can come from your area to the center by bus, trolleybus or tram, move freely around it about your business, and return home in the evening.
The network routes with a total length of more than 350 kilometers will connect the center of Moscow with remote areas. Thus, making daily trips around Moscow, passengers will be able to fully rely on public transport.
Routes
The new transport network includes three types of routes: trunk, regional and social.
Trunk routes main and longest. There will be 17 of them in total. The interval of movement will be from 5 to 10 minutes.
They connect several districts of Moscow with the center and with each other at once. So, Leninsky prospect will be connected with Leningradsky, Luzhniki with Semenovskaya, and Nagatinskaya with Polezhaevskaya.
District routes connects districts with the center. There will be 13 of them in total, and the interval of movement will be 10-15 minutes. They are easy to get to the main route or take short trip.
Social routes help residents of Moscow to get to the centers "My Documents", clinics, passport offices and other socially significant places. There will be seven of them in total, and the interval of movement is up to 30 minutes.
The schedule of movement of urban transport will now be clock. For example, if a passenger arrives at a bus stop and the bus door closes in front of him, he will know exactly how many minutes the next one will arrive.
The letter "M" will be added to the names of the main routes before the digit of the number:
- m1 - along Leningradsky prospect;
- m2 - along Kutuzovsky Prospect;
- m3 - along Prechistenka Avenue;
- m4 - along Leninsky Prospekt;
- m5 and m6 - along the Warsaw highway;
- m7 - along Ryazansky prospect;
- m8 - along the Entuziastov highway;
- m9 - along Mira Avenue;
- m10 - along Novoslobodskaya street.
Bus route "A" also refers to the mainline. It will run from the square of three stations to Luzhniki. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, a tram of the same name has been running along this route; Muscovites have nicknamed it "Annushka".
Night routes H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 and H6 are united by a single interchange hub on Slavyanskaya Square, near the Kitay-Gorod metro station. The rest of the 24-hour routes will remain unchanged. The movement intervals are, as before, 30 minutes.
District and social routes are simply numbered. At first, for the convenience of passengers, transport along the routes will run with two numbers - a new one and an old one.
New stop flags, maps and stencils have been created especially for the project. The updated traffic patterns will be placed at stops and in transport.
It is planned to update the movement of routes on Yandex maps as well. In addition, for the first time volunteers and promoters will be working, who will talk about new routes.
Stops and rolling stock
Gradually, all public transport stops will be replaced with new ones. At the first stage, 24 new stops were installed in the center, and 12 of them are located in areas where public transport has not been running since the 90s.
The main interchange hub of the main routes is Lubyanka. This means that it will be possible to get to almost any district of the capital or any part of the center with one change at Lubyanka.
The rolling stock is also being updated. The authorities have already purchased 103 new buses with soft seats and air conditioning.
On Saturday, October 8, 2016, in the center of Moscow, a new network of land transport routes "Magistral" was launched. For the first time, buses have returned to streets where public transport has not been available since the 1990s. Thanks to the introduction of new dedicated lanes and the changes in the organization of traffic, the speed of ground transport has increased significantly.
The Magistral network will provide regular traffic to almost all sections of the major streets of the center. 24 new stopping points have been commissioned in the center of Moscow, 12 of which are located on streets where public transport has not been running since the 1990s. After 20 years, ground transport returned to the sections of Bolshaya Nikitskaya and Sadovnicheskaya streets. Also, the movement of urban transport along Malaya Dmitrovka street was re-organized.
With the launch of the Magistral network, the total number of rolling stock in the center of Moscow increased by 40%. In total, 370 buses, trolleybuses and trams operate daily on routes within the Garden Ring. The average interval of movement on routes has been reduced by 2 times (from 16 to 8 minutes). It is expected that within 2 years the passenger traffic of ground transport in the center of Moscow will increase 2-3 times and reach 1 million people a day. This will relieve up to 20% of the load from the most busy metro stations and interchange hubs within the Circle Line.
For the convenience of Muscovites, the routes have been optimized, and changes have been made to the numbering of routes. New main routes, running at intervals of 5-10 minutes during the day, received the designation "m" in front of the number. Thus, the m1 route, passing from Kravchenko Street to the Ministry of Railways Hospital, forms a stable transport connection between two important city highways: Leninsky Prospekt and Tverskaya Street. For the first time, the old route number will also be indicated next to the new number on the route and stop signs.
Signs at public transport stops have become more attractive and informative for passengers. They have been completely renewed for the launch of Magistral in the center of Moscow. A new route map in the city center has been posted on all bus stops along the routes.
A map of route changes has been published on the Unified Transport Portal. Passengers can also receive a prompt answer to all questions that arise at the Moscow Transport contact center by calling + 7495-539-5454 or 3210 (when calling from a mobile phone).
To develop the Magistral network in the Moscow Transport Complex, a working group was created, which included Russian and international experts. When planning routes, the population density, concentration of jobs, passenger flows on existing routes and metro stations were taken into account. The working group carried out an in-depth analysis of the correspondence matrix based on a large amount of accumulated data.
The opportunity to launch a new route network appeared due to the changes in the organization of traffic within the framework of the improvement program "My Street". On the streets of the Kremlin Ring (Teatralny Proezd, Okhotny Ryad, Mokhovaya Street, Borovitskaya Square), a dedicated opposite lane has appeared, new U-turns are being introduced on Lubyanskaya and Slavyanskaya Squares, and on the Garden Ring - direct intersections only for public transport. Six new dedicated lanes and new infrastructure will make land transport stable and convenient for everyday travel.
“The experience of the world's leading capitals shows that even with the dense coverage of the central part of the city by the metro network, ground transport plays a key role in the movement of residents. Since in Moscow more than a third of the urban areas within the Garden Ring are located outside the comfortable pedestrian accessibility of the metro, Muscovites need regular ground transport. The new Magistral network will become worthy alternative travel by metro in the center of Moscow. Moving around the center will become much more convenient and faster with the help of ground transport, ”said Maxim Liksutov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow in the Moscow Government, Head of the Department of Transport and Development of Road and Transport Infrastructure of the City of Moscow.
MOSCOW, October 7. / TASS /. The new route network "Magistral" and six dedicated lanes for public transport will start working on October 8 in Moscow. As TASS was told in the Moscow Department of Transport, the total number of routes within the Garden Ring will not change (39 routes), while 17 of them will receive the status of trunk routes, 15 will become regional, 7 - social.
What the authorities promise
According to the calculations of the city authorities, as a result of the change in the public transport route network, 450 thousand residents of the Central District will have the opportunity to get to the city center without spending time on the road to the metro, descent underground and transfers between lines.
"The routes of the updated routes are planned in such a way as to enable passengers to save up to 30% of their time. The average interval of traffic on central routes will be reduced by more than 2 times. "and the new allocated lanes, the waiting time will be 5-8 minutes," the department said.
It is expected that in the next 2 years, the passenger traffic of ground transport in the city center will increase 2-3 times and reach 1 million people a day. 103 new buses were purchased for the project, the total number of rolling stock in the center will grow by 39%. Daily on the routes of the Central administrative district more than 370 buses, trolleybuses and trams will leave.
The first line of routes will be launched in October. New routes, new stops and new buses will gradually appear. The last stage of the Magistral network will be launched in 2017. Along with the routes, the authorities promise to improve road markings and launch dedicated lanes where they will help traffic.
Main, district and social routes
All routes of the Magistral network will be divided into three categories. Trunk routes will connect several districts of Moscow with the center and with each other at once. The interval of these routes will be 5-10 minutes. These are the fastest and most frequent routes on the network.
The number of mainline routes from October 8 will include 17 routes, of which three are tram (3, 39 and "A"), four are trolleybus ("B", M7, M4, M8), ten bus routes ("A", M1, M2, M3 , M5, M6, M9, M10, 904, 144).
The district routes are shorter: they connect the districts with the center (15 routes). They can be used to get to the main route or take a short trip. The interval of movement is 10-15 minutes. Of these, eight are trolleybus (3, 4, 8, 10, 13, 39, 47, 79), seven are bus (T15, T25, 24, 38, 101, 156, 158).
Social routes will help Moscow residents get to the My Documents centers, clinics, passport offices and other socially significant places. The interval of movement is up to 30 minutes. Seven became social bus routes 39, 40, 64, 122, 132, 155 and "K".
As part of the launch of a new network in the center of Moscow, 24 new stopping points are being commissioned, 12 of which are located in areas where public transport has not run since the 1990s - on Bolshaya Nikitskaya and Sadovnicheskaya streets.
How routes will change
The only completely new route that does not duplicate the previously existing ones is the M3 bus. It will connect the eastern and southwestern parts of the city. His route will pass from the Semenovskaya metro station to the Luzhniki stadium.
Eleven routes will be renumbered and the route will be changed, of which 10 mainline (bus T1 will become bus M1, T2 - M2, 6 - M6, T9 - M9, 25 - M5, T31 - "A", 20 - M10, trolleybuses 16 and 63 will unite to route M7, trolleybuses 33, 62 and 84 - to M4, trolleybus 45 will become route M8) and 1 district (bus 12C will become route 101).
For example, the T1 bus will run under the M1 number. His route will be extended to the Botkin Hospital, instead of Varshavskoye Shosse, he will walk along Leninsky Prospekt.
They will change the route, but 11 routes will remain under their previous number, of which two main routes (buses 144 and 904), 7 regional (buses 38 and 158, trolleybuses 3, 8, 39, 47, 79), two social (buses 39 and 64). For example, the route of the semi-express bus 904, which previously followed from the 4th microdistrict of Mitin to Belorussky railway station, will be extended to Slavyanskaya Square (metro station "Kitay Gorod"). Bus 38, which previously ran from the Rizhsky railway station to Trubnaya Square, will now run to Slavyanskaya Square (Kitay-Gorod metro station).
On the remaining 16 routes, the routes and the number remain unchanged. The innovations will affect only the intervals of the following. So, trolleybus "B" and trams 3, 39, "A" will start running at intervals of up to 10 minutes (main routes), trolleybuses 4, 10 and 13, as well as buses T15, 24, T25, 156 will run at intervals of up to 15 minutes (district routes), buses 40, 122, 132, 255, K will run at intervals of up to 30 minutes (social routes).
It will keep its route, but change the route number C10 ( former bus"A"), which runs from the metro station "University" to Akademika Zelinsky Street.
"Annushka" and routes with the letter "M"
As part of the changes to the route network, the historical route "A" is returning to the Boulevard Ring. When working on the numbering of the new network, the bus route, which will run along the entire western part of the Boulevard Ring, received the designation "A".
Number "A" was given to the former bus T31, which earlier it followed from the Luzhniki stadium to Trubnaya Square. Now he has extended the route and will reach the Komsomolskaya metro station. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, a tram of the same name has been running along this route, which Muscovites affectionately nicknamed "Annushka". The tram will continue to run in the eastern part of the Boulevard Ring.
All renamed routes now contain the letter "M": M1, M2, M3 and so on. Route M1 will run along Leningradsky Prospekt, M2 - along Kutuzovsky, M3 - along Komsomolskoye, M4 - along Leninsky, M5 and M6 - along Varshavskoye Shosse, M7 - along Ryazanskoye, M8 - along Entuziastov Highway, M9 - along Mira Avenue.
Night routes
The changes will also affect the night routes H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6. Six of them will be united by a single interchange hub at Slavyanskaya Square, near the Kitay-Gorod station. At night they will cross at Slavyanskaya Square to pick up passengers and deliver them to the other end of the city. The driving intervals will remain the same - 30 minutes. Changing the routes of night routes is associated with the launch of a dedicated strip on the Kremlin ring.
Launching dedicated lanes
From October 8, public transport will be launched in Moscow along six new dedicated lanes: a section of the Kremlin ring, two through passages on the Garden Ring, Taganskaya Street, Vozdvizhenka and a section of Malaya Dmitrovka to Strastnoy Boulevard. Thanks to the new "leased lines", public transport running along these streets will be able to carry 30-50% more passengers.
"Vydelenka" on the Kremlin ring will pass along the left side of the road, public transport will move towards cars. Buses and trolleybuses will run from Lubyanskaya Square along Teatralniy Proezd, Okhotny Ryad Streets, Mokhovaya and Borovitskaya Squares. In the opposite direction, the transport will move in the general flow. From Borovitskaya Square, the "dedicated line" will pass through Bolshoi and Maly Kamenny bridges, Serafimovich Street.
Then buses and trolleybuses can continue along the dedicated lane on Bolshaya Yakimanka, turn onto Leninsky Prospekt and enter the Moscow Ring Road.
What the experts think
The head of the "Public transport" direction of the Probok.Net expert center, Alexander Chekmarev, believes that the implementation of the new route network will make urban transport more in demand.
“The routes went from nowhere to nowhere, they were indirect, inconvenient, confusing, it was impossible to start public transport in the way passengers needed it, this was due to the fact that in the center of the city recently there were a lot of one-way streets. New schema is based on the commissioning of new dedicated lanes, in particular, this is a dedicated lane on the Kremlin ring, which will meet the main flow. This will allow to launch public transport routes in both directions, "Chekmarev said.
Andrey Karmatsky, head of the company that took part in the development of the new route network, believes that due to route optimization, the traffic situation in Moscow will significantly improve. "The routes were developed with the involvement of transport experts and many different organizations, including well-known foreign transport experts. The new network will work more efficiently in the center of Moscow due to the optimization of route lines," he said.
Norayr Bludyan, Chairman of the Transport Association of the Moscow Agglomeration, agrees with him. "There will be no (transport) collapse, moreover, in my opinion, with the optimization of the new route network, there will be a reduction in the density of car traffic. traffic flow, traffic on the road network will decrease. According to various estimates, in 95-97% of the time the car just stands still, so it is absolutely fair if the owners of a personal car switch to a bus, trolleybus, metro, Moscow Central Circle, "the expert said.
Yesterday, unexpectedly, on the official website of the mayor's office, it was about restarting the entire land transport network of the city. It was named “Magistral” and promises to work a miracle: transport will run twice as often, there will be more buses, trolleybuses and trams, Muscovites will be able to plan their routes more conveniently and move around the city.
The project divides routes into three types: trunk routes, on which it will be possible to travel long distances - from Kitay-Gorod to Vladykino, for example; social - up to polyclinics and passport offices, as well as district ones, providing connectivity within the districts. The most popular routes have been straightened to increase travel speed and shorten intervals. The main interchange point of the network will be Lubyanka: here you can change from any main bus (the number is marked with the letter M) to the desired one.
The project is theoretically revolutionary: the distance between metro stations in our country reaches more than one and a half kilometers, and now, instead of a 20-minute walk, it will be possible to get to the destination in 5 minutes by bus. Transport will cover some new sites; buses that previously drove around the Kremlin will no longer do this - special corridors have been allocated for them; a trolleybus line will appear, say, on Bolshaya Nikitskaya. However, Afisha Daily still had questions about the project, which it addressed to the experts.
Why is all this done?
Mikhail Blinkin
Director of the Institute of Transport and Transport Policy of the Higher School of Economics
“The possibilities of transport policy are determined by a simple thing: how much asphalt in the city and how many cars? Divide one by the other. If one car has a lot of asphalt, as in Boston or Philadelphia, then there is freedom of transport policy. We don't have to do it at all: let them drive as they want, and leave public transport for the elderly and children as an auxiliary social service. There is also the European version, where there is less asphalt, and they came up with sustainable mobility, public transport, pedestrian environment; all this is beautifully stated in books and laws. Our asphalt was laid according to Soviet layouts, and cars began to appear much later, in the 1990s - one overlaid on the other, and as a result, there is critically little asphalt on a car in Moscow.
Encouraging travel by public transport is good, but the main thing is to get new passengers. The whip is about parking rates: car ownership is getting more expensive, rightly so. We need an alternative: this is why public transport is made more attractive,. It is in this direction that we need to go further - to make public transport more privileged and even more comfortable.
As for the terrestrial network, its basic formats were set by the planning decisions of the 1970s - there were no major reforms in 50 years, something was added and something was subtracted, but, in principle, little has changed. And now there are serious changes. There will be, for example, a metrobus - a privileged public transport. Without going down the metro, it will be possible to travel long distances. Development will inevitably go through trial and error. One route, like the old 144th on Leninsky Prospekt, will not reach Teatralnaya Square, as before, but go even further, to Lubyanka. Let's see how the new network will work in the center - from the side of Mokhovaya and towards Novy Arbat, for example. Or maybe it will be nice. In any case, the tragedy will not happen. It would be a tragedy if the MCC was not in demand - the rails have already been laid there, and there is no way to get away from them ”.
How did the work on the "Magistral" go?
Alexey Mityaev
Advisor to the Head of the Department of Transport, Head of the Magistral project
“To design the routes, we brought together everyone involved in transport in Moscow: representatives of departments and prefectures, activists, bloggers and international experts with experience in working on route networks. We analyzed population density and job concentration, passenger flows of existing routes and metro stations, transfers during trips, traffic speeds and car flows.
For this project, an interactive platform was specially created based on data from the Data Center, Mosgortrans, the Department of Information Technology, with the help of which it was possible to analyze impersonal information about the movement of citizens around the city. About 1,000 people are involved in the preparation of the Magistral.
As a result, regularly running transport will appear in the city center, which will enable residents of the Central District and passengers who work in the center to get to their destination without going underground and without spending time on transfers between lines. After the launch of the new route network, a stable ground transport network will appear in the center for the first time. If now in the center of Moscow it is necessary to wait for transport on average 16 minutes, then after the commissioning of the “Magistral” this time will be reduced to 5-8 minutes ”.
Andrey Karmatsky
CEO of Urbica, which did analytics for Magistral
“We were one of the expert companies - we helped colleagues from the Department of Transport with the analysis and visualization of data in the project. One of our approaches is to analyze the available data on the movement of passengers and identify ineffective problem areas. In the old version of the network, there were routes that, due to the organization of one-way traffic, did not follow optimally. It was inconvenient: you could come to one place (for work, for example), and leave for reverse direction did not work - it was necessary to look for this route on another street. New routes move in both directions - due to the opening of a public transport lane on the Kremlin ring, in particular. The second important improvement: the most popular routes will run more often, which is why they are called trunk routes. As I suppose, the authors of the project will continue to monitor the results of the launch and supplement and adjust the network, following the same principles. "
Why is the main interchange at Lubyanka?
Artur Shahbazyan
Deputy Head of the Organization Center road traffic
“It so happened historically that the area where Lubyanka is located has always been distinguished by increased business activity since the 12th century. It was in these places that the road ran, which connected Kiev and Smolensk with the then Vladimir-Suzdal Rus. The transport component of this area of Moscow contributed to the fact that food shops and forges began to appear here. And returning to the question of why Lubyanka was chosen as the center, we can say that Lubyanka and Kitay-Gorod have been chosen as points for turning public transport routes due to their convenient location in the center of Moscow. Stops at Lubyanka and Kitay-Gorod will provide a comfortable transfer between routes running from the center to the outskirts of the capital. Ground transportation will be integrated into a single full-fledged network and will become an attractive alternative to metro and cars.
This project is very important for the city, because it affects not only the center, as one might think, but also remote areas. Many buses connect not only neighboring streets, but also opposite districts of Moscow. For example, route M1 (formerly T1), passing through Tverskaya, arrives at Gagarin Square and follows on along Leninsky Prospekt. There was no two-way public transport on the Kremlin ring for decades, which is why many buses had to pass twice as much just to bypass the Kremlin. The designated lane will run along the opposite lane from Lubyanskaya Square to Bolshaya Yakimanka Street. But the movement of public transport in the opposite direction from Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge to Lubyanskaya Square will be allowed in the general flow for now. Instead of outdated routes along inconvenient highways, Muscovites will receive long-distance transport running during the day at intervals of 5-10 minutes (in metro mode), which will connect the main points of attraction of the city. And thanks to the introduction of a dedicated lane on the Kremlin ring for some passengers, the way home will be shorter by 45 minutes. "
What problems remained unresolved?
Anna Shevchenko
architectural commentator
“Systematization in conditions of chaos in the capital is already good, and such measures as optimization of existing routes, introduction of a clock schedule, and most importantly, the approach of the center to the outskirts, cannot but be encouraging.
Another question is how this system will work. First, the routes. All of them are now divided into mainline, district and social. But if you look, for example, the M2 route (Arbat - Kutuzovsky - Fili), designed to connect the highway and the center, it turns out that it is not brought to the actual highway - Mozhaisk highway, so only the name remains of the “trunk” route. Other lines are also interrupted in the middle, the number of chord connections in the project tends to zero altogether. The second point: in the current situation, even an ideal route will not save you from traffic jams. Only dedicated public transport lanes can solve the problem, which, although they begin to appear actively, often do not work. Until the leased lines are used exclusively for public transport, the center will not come close to the outskirts.
And finally, the question of the efficiency of the tact schedule and the number of rolling stock. Muscovites, after the cancellation of minibuses, complain about the increase in the waiting time for buses, but for many this is the only way to get to the nearest metro. "
Vasily Bykov
journalist, patriot of land transport
“In principle, I don’t take the metro. All my childhood I took a ride on the 9th and 13th trolleybuses: from Ostankino they came to the center - to the Children's World or Trubnaya Square. I see no reason to change habits, especially, according to rumors, it is rather disgusting in the metro.
Yesterday, suddenly, the city government announced a project with a beautiful industrial name "Magistral". The presentation says that this was done in order to "make it easier for passengers to move in the center." Small lies! The new network does not solve these problems. For example, the smart guys from the Department of Transport were not smart enough to close the Boulevard Ring with one route. Everyone knows that from Colored to Clean ponds can only be reached on foot. Why the officials did not take this into account - I do not know. Many areas of the center, for example Patriki, Arbat, from Tverskaya to Bolshaya Nikitskaya, are surrounded by roads where transport runs regularly. There is nothing like this inside the districts. Pensioners and pioneers - just walk to the bus stops! And there are many such examples. So the main idea of moving in the center of the transport has slightly failed: it is clearly visible on the map - gray wastelands between colored lines. Meanwhile, Muscovites live there. 24 new stops in the whole center - this, sorry, is not a solution to the problem, this is petting. And I would like a deeper penetration into the center.
But getting to the center and driving around it became really more convenient for a resident of the outskirts. The distant regions were connected by buses. They promise to carry from Luzhniki to Semyonovskaya, from Nagatino to Polezhaevskaya. Perfectly! Many routes were straightened and made a little longer and more logical: T9 now runs from the Vladykino metro to Kitay-Gorod - the prayers and banners of Marfino residents have been heard. New route The M10 from Lobnenskaya Street to Kitay-Gorod is also beautiful because the bus passes through the Garden Ring almost right through.
To remove small flaws - and it would be ideal. Another thing is worrying: in the evenings and on weekends, ground transport is almost always empty. I am even afraid to take pictures of passing buses: all of a sudden, officials will see that no one needs it, and will finally believe that Muscovites love the metro. This is not the case. It is best to look at the city from the height of a tram / trolleybus / bus seat ”.
What can you say about Magistral's design?
Nonna Khismatullina
designer, art director of The Moscow Times
“It's great that navigation in the city is becoming a single system, a single brand. This makes Moscow clearer and more logical. As for the graphic part of the map, you can see what a huge amount of information and with what care it has been processed and translated into non-verbal language. It is pleasant to look at the map, you want to examine it - and find many pleasant trifles: for example, a small arrow near the stop circle indicates a significant territorial discrepancy between the route stop in the opposite direction. This is a very useful thing, but I didn't read it right away.
The legend has been successfully built: a translucent plate along the perimeter, where legend tied to the route entry point on the map. This decision is not new and is quite widespread, in particular, it was similar in Lebedev's reference book "Moscow Transport", albeit a little less succinctly executed.
The solution with different line thicknesses and color choices for main and regional routes is beautiful. Although there are controversial points in which I could not find the logic. For example, why is route 64 different in color from other social routes? Does the color of the main routes match the color of the metro station line from which it starts, or is it a coincidence / mismatch?
The type work is decent too. But the signatures for the reference points (Arbatskiye Vorota, the Udarnik cinema, etc.) could have been given a different style so as not to be confused with metro stations, or icons could be added as additional anchors. By the way, I would simplify the Kremlin icon - now there are too many details, in my opinion. It is also strange that the names of the streets are not duplicated in English, but this is already me finding fault. "
How will the system as a whole change our perception of the city?
Artem Gerasimenko
Expert of the Center for Strategic Research
“Moving to Moscow in 1992 was a surprise for me, a seven-year-old child. After the five-story regional Kubinka with quiet closed courtyards, the territory with high-rise buildings growing in the fields formed a completely different feeling of being in space. One thing was invariable: Moscow was still as far away as before. Parents sometimes took my sister and me to the city, the road always took more than an hour, half of which was on buses. The numbers 813 and 262 will forever remain in memory as long-awaited warm - especially in winter - symbols of achieving the goal: "Hurray, I'm almost at home" or "Finally, the metro." But I especially remembered those trips when buses along familiar routes brought us somewhere from which it was not necessary to go by metro - the Aquarium store in Yasenevo or the Prague market. The natural need for comfort was satisfied, there was a feeling of accessibility - that's how boring I can call it now. And then I was just happy. And then the metro appeared.
Twenty-five years later, the city became much more understandable and my own for me. I began to live in the Basmanny district, to go to work in the Arbat district. I have a lot more to do, I am now based in the center, using my own or a rented bike. Only the metro remained the main way to get from point A to point B. The only understandable ground transport was trolleybus B, running along the Garden Ring. All other routes either broke off at unexpected moments, or did not fit into the image of a convenient and understandable way of traveling. Studying the details of the Magistral project, I see that both problems will no longer be relevant in a couple of days.
It is obvious that the project, even if it is introduced in stages, will become an organic part of the daily life of the townspeople quickly, making the process of moving more comfortable and efficient. And if we subjectively assess the various actions of the city government, then the return of the public transport route network to the center is no less significant than the beauty of the sidewalks and squares. "
The first prototypes of the Magistral project began to be created in Moscow back in 2012. The city then ordered a study of the transport system, then it was proposed to launch routes through the city center and divide them into different categories. Then the developer company was told that nothing would come of this idea, the co-chairman of the interregional social movement"City and Transport" Alexander Morozov, who worked on that project.
Four years later, the situation has changed. In October 2016, the first line of routes will be launched, and the last line of the Magistral network will be launched in 2017, the Department of Transport reported.
There will be practically no new routes within the framework of the project: most of them are, to one degree or another, modified existing flights.
There are two main innovations. At first,
all routes will pass through the center, even if they previously crossed the border of the CAO tangentially.
And secondly, three categories of routes are being introduced: main, regional and social.
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There are only seventeen main routes, ten of them are designated by the letter M and a serial number. For at least the first two months after launch, such buses will run with two numbers, new and old, on the basis of which the main route was invented. The main routes are the longest, they leave the outskirts in one part of Moscow, cross the center and go to the sleeping areas in another part of the city. For example, on the route "m1" (formerly T1) it will be possible to get from Kravchenko Street along Leninsky Prospekt through Tverskaya and Leningradsky Prospekt to the Ministry of Railways Hospital. The m3 route will allow you to get from Luzhniki to the Semenovskaya metro station via Prechistenka and Pokrovka. Trolleybus routes No. 33, 62 and 84 have been combined into the M4 route, which will now follow from the Udarnik cinema to Ozernaya Street in the south-west of the city.
Trunk routes will run most often, every 5-10 minutes, and should become a full-fledged alternative to the metro. For nine main routes, a kind of single interchange hub will be organized on Lubyanskaya Square, for some buses this stop will be the final one, and for some it will be in the middle of the route.
In addition, three trams, two express routes, one "alphabetic" bus and one "alphabetic" trolleybus can be considered mainline in fact, but not by number. Trunk trams are route "A" (from "Chistye Prudy" to "Oktyabrskaya"), No. 3 (from "Chistye Prudy" to Balaklavsky Prospect) and No. 39 (from the same "Chistye Prudy" to "University").
Two express routes (# 144 and # 904) have been slightly modified. Both will depart from Kitay-Gorod, pass through Okhotny Ryad, Teatralnaya Square and Lubyanka. Further, No. 144 follows Leninsky Prospect to Teply Stan, and No. 904 - along Leningradsky Prospekt in Mitino. As for the "letter" routes, then
First of all, we are talking about the famous "Bukashka" - trolleybus "B", which will continue to run along the usual route along the Garden Ring.
The new route of the bus "A" - in fact, a well-forgotten old one, it partially repeats tram route, which existed in Moscow at the beginning of the twentieth century. From October 8, it will run from the square of three stations to the Luzhniki stadium, covering the western part of the Boulevard Ring from Trubnaya Square to Kropotkinskaya. Per eastern part boulevards, as mentioned above, will be "answered" by tram "A".
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Regional routes are not as popular among passengers as the main ones, so they will run a little less often, once every 10-15 minutes. As Gazeta.Ru was informed in the Department of Transport, the main difference between the regional routes and the main ones lies in the interval. As for the rest, the district routes will pass their own way along the central streets in the same way, but they are shorter in length than the main ones. Eight trolleybus and seven bus routes received the district category, they will be marked with blue plates.
Their numbers will not change, so there is no need to memorize new ones, but some streets they follow will be different.
This is done so that the transport does not make unnecessary loops and goes to the goal as quickly as possible.
If you decide to take a ride, for example, on the regional route of trolleybus No. 3, which used to follow from Samotechnaya Square to Milashenkov Street, then you will have to take it at the Mayakovskaya metro station. Route "t15", as before, will help to get from Luzhnetsky passage through "Kropotkinskaya" along Boulevard ring to the Maryina Roshcha metro station, and then to the southern exit of the VDNKh metro station. And, let's say, the 156th bus will take you from the Nagatinsky backwater through Andropov Avenue and Taganskaya to Kotelnicheskaya embankment.
Social routes run even less frequently than district routes. But their main task is not to deliver passengers to the center as quickly as possible, but to go around the maximum number of socially significant places along the way, that is, clinics, MFC, councils, social security services, and so on. Social routes, marked in pink, will run every 20-30 minutes.
As well as main and regional routes, social buses will either drive into the center from residential areas, or walk directly through the central part of Moscow.
For example, bus # 64 will travel from the Luzhniki stadium through the Garden Ring and the Smolenskaya metro station to Sandy Square. And, say, route K will follow the ring from Okhotny Ryad through Lubyanka, Kitay-Gorod, Raushskaya embankment, the Udarnik cinema and the Lenin Library.
Night routes will practically not change, except that H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 and H6 will now stop in one place - on Slavyanskaya Square near the Kitay-Gorod metro station. The rest of the night routes will remain the same as before, as well as the interval of their movement - once every 30 minutes.
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The mayor's office expects that the launch of the Magistral project will increase the popularity of ground public transport and unload the traditionally chock-full central stations subway. Passengers will save up to 30% of their travel time, Deputy Head of the Transport Department Alina Bisembayeva told Gazeta.Ru. “Regularly running transport will appear in the city center, which will enable residents of the Central District and passengers who work in the center to get to their destination without spending time on the road to the metro, descent underground and transfers between lines,” she added. Optimization and straightening of routes will reduce the average interval of traffic on central routes by more than half.
To prevent ground transport from getting stuck in traffic jams, dedicated lanes will be opened for them where necessary.
The Department of Transport assures that the traffic management scheme is made in such a way that the delays of personal cars because of this are minimal.
But they do not hide how the city's priorities are actually distributed. “73% of city dwellers moving around the city use public transport. And one of the most important priorities in our work is to ensure comfortable movement of public transport, ”the department said to Gazeta.Ru.
Experts believe that the organization of additional "leased lines" will not lead to a significant increase in traffic jams - they simply will have nowhere to form, especially since in recent years many streets in the center of Moscow have been narrowed so much. “The wider the carriageway becomes, the more motorists decide to drive on these roads. Thus, no matter how you widen the roads, they will be filled to capacity. In order for all motorists to fit in, 60% must be asphalted, which is impossible. When the street narrows, including at the expense of dedicated lanes, motorists rather quickly abandon personal transport in favor of public transport, ”says Morozov from City and Transport.
Alexander Chekmarev, an expert at Probok.net, adds that
There are traffic jams even now, "it's just that they usually have all the transport, and after the launch of the project, only personal vehicles will stand, while the buses will be able to pass."
He also noted that there is no need to move around the center of Moscow by personal transport: "It is difficult to find a parking space, you constantly have to stand in traffic jams, so, perhaps, motorists themselves will switch to public transport and there will be less traffic jams." And with the launch of the project, public transport will be launched where it has not been in recent years, for example, along the southern part of Petrovka.
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However, the project also has a number of disadvantages. One of the main ones is that
the traffic pattern has been significantly redrawn, and passengers will now have to get used to new numbers, new intervals and new routes,
no matter how convenient they are in the end. At bus stops, they promise to post new schemes with detailed explanations, but a few months of confusion are almost certainly guaranteed.
“Routes with the same numbers will appear: with the letter“ M ”and without the letter“ M ”. For example, there will be bus # 4 and # m4. The numbering system needs to be simplified, otherwise people will get confused. I would suggest leaving the successive numbering: similar routes should keep the same numbers, - Kirill Yankov, chairman of the Russian Passengers' Union, explained to Gazeta.Ru. “In addition, it would be better if each route of land transport in Moscow was designated by one unique number. Now there are no more than a thousand routes in the city, and the numbers should be enough for each of them. "
At the same time, Alexander Morozov, on the contrary, believes that it is correct to designate routes with letters and numbers. “So you can immediately understand whether the bus runs often on this route or not, that is, the passenger is confident in the regularity of the buses, just like on the metro trains. A similar numbering system has been introduced, for example, in New York and Berlin. Moreover
Berliners know the bus route system by heart, as Muscovites know subway scheme»,
- noted Morozov.
According to the expert, until now, while the routes in Moscow were only numbered, people did not understand how often they go. “In addition, the traffic pattern itself was a“ macaroni network ”: the route can go along the avenue, and then dive into some courtyards and an abyss. Traffic in the city center was completely destroyed under Luzhkov when one-way traffic around the Kremlin was introduced. Finally, Moscow has come to the point of making an oncoming lane on Okhotny Ryad, ”he added.
Yankov from the Passenger Union agrees that Magistral is a major step forward for urban transport, but he is convinced of the need to further improve the system. “There should be fewer routes to end in the center, on Lubyanskaya and Slavyanskaya squares, and more routes should be“ dragged ”through the center. It is unlikely that someone will travel by buses with a transfer through the center, the metro is better suited for this, the expert says. - It is also worth running direct buses that travel on routes other than the metro. For example, Novy Arbat and Prospekt Mira could be connected by one route, given that there is no direct transfer from the orange metro line to the blue one. Such a route would look very correct. "
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The potential demand for the new system among passengers also raises questions. Of course, this is what the mayor's office wants to achieve, but will the new transport network withstand the load and will the situation be repeated when, after the reform of minibuses, legal buses are often crammed to capacity? Additional buses, trolleybuses and trams will be launched specially for the "Magistral", a total of 370 units of transport. “After the launch of the route network, we will constantly monitor the congestion of routes and rolling stock,” said the Department of Transport.
Another controversial point is the organization of "day" and "night" interchange hubs at Lubyanskaya and Slavyanskaya squares. However, the Department of Transport is confident that the infrastructure will cope with passenger traffic. “There are many transport hubs in the city, the daily passenger traffic of which is 100 thousand and more people per day. Changes in routes and transport schemes within the framework of the Magistral project will not affect the change in the environment in these areas, ”the department stressed.
However, experts point out that the same Lubyanka still lacks normal infrastructure for passengers: most of the crossings are underground, the interval of pedestrian traffic lights on zebras is too short, so getting to the bus stop sometimes takes much longer than going down the metro.
“I think that the transfer points at Lubyanskaya and Slavyanskaya squares are a temporary measure,” says Alexander Morozov. - Ideally, the routes should go through the center, dock in pairs with each other and form diameters that go through the center. These diameters should deviate from metro stations to compensate for the lack of metro in certain areas of the center. In any case, the main task now is to restore through traffic through the center. "
Kirill Yankov from the Passengers' Union believes that traffic jams can be avoided by observing the clock movement of buses within 5-10 minutes. “How the movement of personal vehicles on Lubyanskaya and Slavyanskaya squares will change in reality depends on the volume of traffic,” he added. “I think that there will be no crowds of passengers at these large interchange points, because the subway will still remain the main trunk transport”.
