Putin made a statement to the press on the occasion of the delivery of the 85-kilometer railway called the Third Central Diameter of Moscow (MCD-3), which is of great importance for the approaches to the Russian capital and its agglomerations. to traffic.
The head of state stated that the high-speed railway network should extend to Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh, Kazan, Donetsk, Luhansk and other cities, including Minsk. According to the vision outlined by Putin, the travel time from the Russian capital to Tver will be reduced to 39 minutes, from Veliky Novgorod to Saint Petersburg to 29 minutes, and from Moscow to Adler located on the Black Sea coast near Russia. – Georgian border for 10 hours.
He believed that Speer and other Russian banks would be involved in the work because they see an economic and financial perspective in it.
The economic newspaper Kommersant noted this
There are no high-speed railways in Russia yet.
The first of its kind It will have to be built between Moscow and St. PetersburgAs the newspaper reported in July Andrei MakarovConstruction may be delayed due to lack of funding, said Deputy General Director of Russian Railways (RZsD). This year, instead of the previously planned 40 billion rubles, 12 billion rubles have been allocated for the project. (A ruble is worth about 3.80 HUF at the current exchange rate.)
The Moscow Central Railway (MCD), which opened on Thursday, is part of the rail commuter project, which includes the development of a surface metro network in the Moscow agglomeration and is one of the most ambitious endeavors of its kind. . The first two lines, MCD-1 and MCD-2, which were launched on November 21, 2019, have carried more than 600 million passengers to date.
MCD-3 connects the northwestern and southeastern suburbs of Moscow. The line passes through 24 districts of the capital and 4 districts of the Moscow region, facilitating transportation for about 3.5 million residents, and operates with 38 stations, three more are scheduled to open. Passengers can transfer to the surface rail and metro network at 21 locations.
The launch of the MCD-3 on three metro lines is expected to ease traffic by up to 15 percent and, according to the capital’s authorities, could reduce emissions to the atmosphere by up to 36,000 tons annually.
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