Moscow has built almost 21 km of metro tunnels since early 2016. Eight of 29 TBMs are currently tunnelling their way through the Moscow’s underground. Six of them, diameter 6 m, are operating between the Ramenki and Rasskazovka stations on the metro’s Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line 8, and two more are displacing earth between the Elektrozavodskaya and Aviamotornaya stations on the northeastern section of the Third Interchange Circuit (TIC). The Moscow Metro has used mainly parallel single-track tunnels. The new TIC line will introduce the double-track tunnel concept. These sections will feature side platform stations. This technology will cut construction costs by up to 30%. Late in 2016 a Herrenknecht TBM, named Lily, with a weight of over 1,600 t, length 66 m, and a diameter over 10 m, started to drive the two-track tunnels between the Kosino and Nizhegorodskaya Street stations on the Moscow metro’s new Kozhukhovskaya line. Lily can move at up to 12 m daily, 350-400 m a month.
Moscow is to build over 20 km of double-track tunnels over the next three years. The metro’s Kozhukhovskaya Line will receive two such tunnels, and two more are scheduled to be built on the Third Interchange Circuit in northern and eastern Moscow. The new Kozhukhovskaya Line (pink line) will run for 17.2 km in parallel to the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line from the Nekrasovka area in the southeast and will connect with the Aviamotornaya station on the Kalininskaya Line (yellow line). The following nine stations will be built on the Kozhukhovskaya Line: Aviamotornaya, Nizhegorodskaya Street, Stakhanovskaya, Okskaya, Yugo-Vostochnaya, Kosino, Dmitriyevskogo Street, Lukhmanovskaya and Nekrasovka.
The Third Interchange Circuit will be built and finished by 2020 and will connect all existing and planned radial lines of the metro. The circuit will be 62.3km long and will have 28 stations, seven of which will be inter connected with radial railway lines, with 17 interconnected with metro lines and two more with the Moscow Central Circle. It will become the longest metro line in Russia. In spring, the Delovoi Tsentr-Petrovsky Park section will be opened. It includes five stations – Petrovsky Park, TsSKA, Khoroshovskaya, Shelepikha and Delovoi Tsentr. In 2018, the line will be extended from Petrovsky Park to Nizhnyaya Maslovka station with a total length of 12.4 km.
The Seligerskaya hub will be the first transport-interchange hub in Moscow. The city plans to put out for tender the construction of 18 more hubs this year. At present, 67 new metro stations are being built or designed and each of them will host a transit hub. Hubs provide a convenient change between different types of transport: the metro, surface trains and commuter trains. For more information please go to https://www.mos.ru/en/ . 09/17.
