Currently, the subway is the most developed and convenient transport network. Cities with millions of people every year try to increase the number of stations, expand routes, create more convenient conditions for overcoming distances underground. Not the last place in this race is occupied by the capital of our country - Moscow. Let's dwell on it in more detail. Let's take a look at today's situation and assess the development prospects that the new metro scheme suggests.
Coming down…
Changes in the subway can be most clearly seen on the subway map. For comparison, we analyze the schemes of different years. It is interesting to remember what the metro was like back in the days of the Soviet Union, back in 1935. The first subway scheme looked like this - see the photo below.
Movement was carried out only along one line and it went from the Sokolniki station to the Park of Culture. The length of the entire journey was about 12 kilometers. The first underground road had one branch, it departed from the Okhotny Ryad station and closed at a point called Smolenskaya. Two years later, it was extended to Kyiv station.
It must be admitted that the construction of underground communications was rapidlycharacter. Almost every year the scheme was replenished with new stations, and already in 1938 the second line of traffic was launched. Immediately after the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, large-scale planning began for the development of the ring road, and in the winter of 1950 the first train was launched along it. A new metro scheme has become available to passengers, with five stations on the ring.
Second half of the 20th century
Let's look now at the end of the twentieth century. Construction is carried out on the same global scale, the expansion of the underground communication system is intensified. The city is being built, growing, and actively populated, so a developed transport system that could easily and quickly deliver a passenger to any part of the city is simply vital.
An interesting fact is that the version of the metro scheme familiar to us was designed back in the 80s of the last century. Over time, it has undergone some changes, supplemented and reprinted when new stations appeared, but, in general, its basic design has been preserved.
Metro map-2015
The 21st century was marked by no less discoveries in the metro area, new metro stations are appearing. In 2002, the scheme of transport routes of the subway crosses the border of the capital for the first time and goes beyond the limits of the Moscow ring road, the station “Boulevard Dm. Donskoy . At the end of next year, the Butovskaya line opens, and a year later, a monorail transport system is launched in the North-Eastern Administrative District.
Now look into the near future. According to the plan and order of the Moscow Government, the new metro scheme for 2015 will look something like the one shown below.
The project provides that the lines of movement will be significantly unloaded. Residents of the capital and its guests will be able to get to work, on various matters and to any destination without hustle and bustle in overcrowded cars. The subway will receive a number of advantages over other modes of transport: the passenger flow in the morning and evening hours will be reduced, due to the increase in the length of some branches, transport lines will be unloaded, which will allow more free movement. Transitions connecting nearby stations will become more convenient and shorter. The route scheme will be improved, so some stations will not need to go with two or three transfers. At stations with one exit, additional doors and turnstiles will be installed. Due to the lengthening of underground routes, the extension of routes outside the Moscow Ring Road and the emergence of new metro stations, residents of remote areas will be able to get to the capital and back without "passengers". For example, it will be possible to get to Mitino in just 30 minutes.
Moscow-2020
It is difficult to talk about the distant future, but according to the projects, it is safe to say about the next changes that the new metro scheme will undergo. Moscow 2020 will look like the photo below.
According to the discussed projects, the underground road network will expand even more. New stations will appear on it, which are planned to be opened in the territories annexed to the Moscow region too. This year alone, more than 100 billion rubles will be allocated for the development of the subway. When, where and what points will be opened, the Moscow Government will decide in accordance with the presented plan for the development of the capital's subway. Also, the new metro scheme will please many passengers with the opening of a second exit at some stations where it is required (Sokolniki, Komsomolskaya, Park Pobedy), and the extension of the Solntsevskaya, Butovskaya and Zamoskvoretskaya metro lines until 2020.
