Ten years later, the central ring road will be fully operational around the city of Moscow. The construction of the Central Ring Road was planned by a decree of the Government of the Russian Federation back in 2001, but it began only in 2014.
Characteristics of the Ring Road
Its length will be five hundred twenty-nine kilometers, and its width is from four to eight lanes. It will pass from Moscow at a distance of twenty-five to sixty-five kilometers. The road will be equipped with a new automatic traffic control system, meteorological observation stations, helicopter platforms, fast communications, rest areas and road services. Every day, the Central Ring Road will be able to pass up to seventy to eighty thousand cars. The permitted speed on the highway will be one hundred thirty kilometers per hour.
Former Governor of the Moscow Region B. Gromov called the Central Ring Road almost the condition for an economic revolution for the region.
Where and how will the Central Ring Road? How much will the fare cost, and what will become of the betonka? These and other issues are covered in this article.
Why is the Central Ring Road needed?
This road is useful in many ways.
For Moscow, which previously distributed cargo transportation, it will serve to draw some part of the heavy and transit traffic. Thus, Moscow will be freed. The Central Ring Road in the Moscow Region will take over cargo destined for other regions. Thanks to this, traffic jams in the capital will significantly weaken.
The Moscow Region will be even more advantageous. The Central Ring Road will unload the small concrete completely. And in the western part - and a large betonka too, sections of roads between the Moscow Ring Road and the Central Ring Road. Thanks to the Central Ring Road, up to two hundred thousand new jobs will appear in the Moscow Region, which will greatly facilitate the situation of residents of the Moscow Region who travel to Moscow daily for work.
For Russia, with the help of this project, chord roads will be formed, future parts of the MTK - international transport corridors. The construction of the Central Ring Road will be accompanied by the reconstruction of several federal highways. And in a few years the country will be able to fully earn on transit. Indeed, at present she receives from transit only five percent of what she could have in fact. We are talking about annual revenues of up to two and a half trillion rubles. This will create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, and will also become a favorable platform for investment in oil refining and logistics.
The regions adjacent to the Moscow region where the Central Ring Road will take place will also benefit, because travel speed and traffic safety will increase. The movement of goods in Russia will be faster and cheaper, and the competitiveness of domestic goods will increase.
Why not reconstruct small concrete?
There are several factors of different orders as to how the Central Ring Road will pass and why it was decided not to reconstruct the A-107 and A-108 roads, popularly called “concrete blocks”. The reasons for such decisions will be described below.
Social reasons for the construction of the Central Ring Road
Firstly, both roads in many sections pass through towns and cities. Small concrete runs through Bronnitsy, Noginsk, Zvenigorod, Elektrostal and other cities. The buildings on it are at a distance of five to thirty meters. When reconstructing the road, it would be necessary to build city bypasses or buy out property of developers in the immediate vicinity of the road. But even if this were done, then a lot of disgruntled people would appear who live in nearby houses and would have to endure the highway next to them.
However, even during the construction of the new road of the Central Ring Road, in spite of the efforts of the designers in the construction of detours, the problem of withdrawing the land where people live was not avoided. Here they decided to follow the “Sochi” path and use the accelerated and simplified procedure for withdrawal for state needs. Compensation will be held at market prices.
Technical reasons
For the convenience of transit, the speed on the road should reach from one hundred thirty to one hundred and fifty kilometers per hour and have the first technical category. The latter implies serious requirements regarding longitudinal slopes, curvature, width of shoulders and so on. However, neither small nor large concrete can boast of compliance with such requirements. To meet the above standard, the roads would need to be completely rebuilt.
The roads of MMK and MBK (small and large concrete) have only the third and fourth categories, longitudinal slopes in some places exceed forty percent. They have many intersections, junctions and offsets. Therefore, the reconstruction of these roads does not seem appropriate.
Planning and urban development reasons for the construction of the Central Ring Road
Since in the Moscow Region the density of roads is less than four times lower than in European countries, it is much better to have two roads, one of which will be the usual local one, and the other will become a transit one, where you can drive at high speed. Otherwise, both local and transit road transport would be on the same road, and local tractors would share the same road with international heavy trucks. In addition, a large number of intersections and ramps from concrete should have either been reconstructed or removed. That is why, for example, the reconstructed section of the road, where there will be a Central Ring Road, called the Zvenigorod Stroke, will be four lanes wide and have only the second technical category.
What awaits the concrete and railway crossings on them?
Both small and large concrete floors will remain free roads, which will mainly be loaded with local traffic. Overpasses will be built instead of level crossings. Such overpasses have almost been built in White Pillars and Alabino on the A-107 road.
The construction of other overpasses in Lipitino, Sharapova Okhota and Lvovskoy on the same road began. Next in line are railway crossings to Golitsyno and Yurovo on a small concrete road and Dorokhovo - on a large one. Their construction is planned until 2020.
Financing of the Central Ring Road
Initially, the project cost ranged from three hundred to three hundred and fifty billion rubles. However, these figures will have to be reviewed in connection with the ruble exchange rate.
The Central Ring Road is financed from three sources:
- Subsidies from the federal budget.
- Means of the National Welfare Fund (National Welfare Fund).
- Concessionaires and investors.
In 2014 and 2015, Avtodor is to receive from the NWF more than thirty-eight billion rubles, which will go to the first and fifth parts of the road. This decision was made after concluding contracts with private investors. These sites are adjacent to each other. They pass along the western and southern sides of Moscow and stretch for one hundred and thirty-seven kilometers. The cost of these sites will be about forty-nine and more than forty-two billion rubles, respectively.
Most of the financing for this road will be paid by the state, twenty-five percent by Stroytransgaz, and ten to fourteen percent will be invested by private investment companies.
NWF funds were planned to be invested in the construction of the road since the end of 2013. However, a year later it was decided to raise bank capital to finance this and other projects. Gazprombank took advantage of this and acquired Avtodor bonds with funds from the NWF. Such a scheme is already being implemented with Russian Railways, where VTB Bank acts as the acquirer.
The question of how the third and fourth parts will be financed, the length of which is almost two hundred kilometers and the cost is more than one hundred and fifty billion rubles, has not yet been completely resolved. So far, competitions are going on in these parts.
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To find out how the Central Ring Road will take place, you can look at the project map. It will also be convenient to overlay this card on the Yandex card.
The entire section where the Central Ring Road in Moscow Region will take place is divided into five launch complexes or ten sections. Between the third and fifth PCs there is a stretch of more than five kilometers, which Avtodor Group of Companies is building at its own expense. This section is not included in launch complexes.
It is planned to erect in two stages of the Central Ring Road. Its scheme is as follows.
Stage 1
The first phase of construction should be completed by 2018. By this time, six out of ten sections should be erected, forming a ring with a total length of three hundred and thirty-eight kilometers and thirty-five meters. The ring, where the Central Ring Road will take place, here completely duplicates the small concrete or A-107.
2 stage
The second phase will take place from 2020 to 2025, during which the remaining four sections will be constructed with a length of one hundred and ninety kilometers sixty-seven meters, in six lanes.
Infrastructure on the Central Ring Road
The width of the track will be a maximum of eight lanes. Where it will intersect with other federal and regional routes, multi-level interchanges, bridges, flyovers and overpasses will be built. In total, it is planned to build thirty-four interchanges and two hundred and seventy-eight bridges.
A road of such a high level will become very attractive for various investors, both logistics and production. This is confirmed by the already received applications from investors to the governor of the Moscow region.
In the territory where the Central Ring Road will take place, thirty-two petrol stations will be built, on which cafes and minimarkets, thirty petrol stations with cafe-restaurants, eighteen service stations and eighteen motels will function.
Fare
The road will be paid everywhere except for the fifth launch complex, where it will pass along the site of small concrete or the A-107 highway. The fare for paid sections built at the expense of the federal budget is planned to be fixed for passenger cars at two rubles thirty-two kopecks per kilometer. In places where private investment will be attracted, the cost may be higher.
For residents of the Moscow region, the Central Ring Road will be free.
