The Moscow Metro carried out a technical launch of the north-eastern section of the Big Circle Line. A Moskva-2020 train ran in test mode from Savyolovskaya to Elektrozavodskaya station.
The length of the section is 7.2 km. The new stations will improve the transport accessibility for about 900 thousand residents of 12 districts of the city – almost 250 thousand of them live within walking distance of the network. Passengers will be able to save up to 40 minutes a day.
In addition, the launch of the new section will be make the entrance of Sokolniki station (Line 1) freer up to 25%, and Rizhskaya (Line 6) and Marina Roscha (Line 10) – up to 20%. New parking lots, crossings and stops will appear near each station.
On behalf of the Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, we are preparing new BCL stations for the full launch. This is a key infrastructure project in Moscow, it will change the mobility in the capital, relieve the urban transport and the main highways. The line will have 47 interchanges to the existing and prospective metro lines, the MCC, the MCD and the railroad. On the basis of 24 stations, we will create modern and convenient transport hubs, and 3.3 million residents of 34 districts of the city will have new travel options. With the full commissioning of the circle line, we expect that in the future it will be used by up to 2.2 million passengers – the BCL will be one of the most popular lines of the network, – said Maksim Liksutov, the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport.
22 stations of the BCL are already opened, 10 of them were launched in December last year. In total, the line will have 31 stations. With 70 km in length, the Big Circle Line will be the longest metro circle line in the world, surpassing the Beijing Circle Line (Line 10) – so far the global leader.
(Moscow Metro)
