The construction of the Big Circle Line in Moscow will be completed in 2022

This was announced by the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for urban planning policy and construction Andrei Bochkarev. He stressed that at the moment it is planned to accelerate work at individual stations and sections of the line. He stressed that by the end of the year, the construction and preparations for the launch of the Big Ring of the Moscow Metro will be completed ahead of schedule.

He also noted that this year it is planned to complete the construction of 7 and reconstruction of 2 stations.

The construction of the Big Ring Line is the main project of the capital’s metro construction. The length of the line will be more than 70 km, 31 stations will open in its composition, and a larger number (22 stations) have already been commissioned. Thus, BCL is the largest circular metro line in the world, which connects existing and prospective radial lines.

The BCL will relieve radial directions, make it possible to connect between areas that did not have it before, and improve the quality of Moscow’s transport accessibility. Thanks to the new subway ring, Muscovites and guests of the capital will have a greater choice of routes for moving around the city. This will reduce the congestion of the lines and reduce the time required for the road.

During the construction of the BCL, technical solutions are laid that will allow to connect new radial metro lines to it: rublevo-Arkhangelskaya line – at the Karamyshevskaya station; Kommunarskaya Line – on Novatorskaya; Biryulyovskaya line – on “Klenovy Boulevard”.

It is designed to support data transfer between trains and between train and dispatcher. The supplier of the equipment was the Israeli company Radwin. Tests have shown that TerraBridge mmWave radio technology is able to provide reliable communication between trains in various scenarios, providing low latency and no data loss.

The Polytechnic Institute of Madrid (UPM) has tested the TerraBridge system on two small trains of the Madrid Metro: the older CAF 2000 series train and the newer CAF 3000. The main objective was to assess the suitability of mmWave technology for the safety of trains and other high-capacity transport systems.

The test showed that TerraBridge is able to maintain a bandwidth of 1 Gbps at a maximum tested distance of 266 meters with a delay of less than 1 ms and without noticeable data loss. Video streaming tests showed similar performance even when transferring large data packets.

In 2021, the Cabinet of Ministers of Mongolia gave permission for the construction of the main railway infrastructure “Bogdkhan” to the company “Tavan-Tolgoi Tomor Zam” LLC. Work is scheduled to begin in the spring of this year.

The railway route, on which 60% of rail traffic will be carried out, will connect the mandal and Ma’ant railway stations on the Ulaanbaatar railway, bypassing the Bogdhan mountains from the eastern side. After commissioning, the line will take over all freight traffic, and the existing section of the main railway line passing through the capital will be open to passenger trains of domestic and international traffic.

According to experts, the new railway route bypassing the Emealt and Hoolt mountain passes on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar will increase the speed of trains. In addition, freight traffic by rail will increase by 5-6 million tons per year. It will bypass the capital from the northwest side and pass through the area of Genghis Khan International Airport in the Khoshig Valley.

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Within the framework of the project, it is planned to build a railway tunnel and a large-scale bridge crossing.

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During the implementation of the project, all the latest technological achievements will be used. It is expected that the Bogdhan highway will contribute to reducing the degree of congestion of roads and increasing the capacity of roads and railways in Ulaanbaatar.

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The construction of the Bogdkhan railway is reflected in the Government’s “Action Plan for 2016-2020” and the “Mongolian Economic Recovery Program” approved by the State Grand Khural (GPH) in 2016. At the moment, the plan of the working group and the preliminary budget of the design work have been submitted. Specialists and relevant authorities are tasked with studying the issue of financing and presenting a report at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Mongolia.

The gravity tunnel, which has an estimated lifespan of 100 years, is one of the largest drainage tunnels in Qatar. The 4.5-meter-diameter structure will pass between the districts of Al-Huwaitim and Birkat el-Avamer, it will direct water flows from the cities of Al-Waqrah and Al-Vuqair to the treatment facilities.

Sinking is carried out with the help of two TPMKs at a depth of about 60 meters. In addition, the project includes the construction of 8 trunks with a depth of 50 to 63 meters. In addition to the main drainage tunnel, it is planned to build a branch of networks and a line of treated wastewater in El Waqrah and Al Vuqair. The total length of the optional network will be about 15 km, the tunnels will have a diameter of 400 mm to 2400 mm, their depth will be from 9 to 46 meters.

The network will be built using microtunneling technology. Tunnels for treated wastewater have a total length of about 29 km, and the diameter is from 600 mm to 1400 mm. The contractor is PORR-HBK-MIDMAC and Parsons International Ltd is responsible for the design, implementation and operation of the tunnel.

The total cost of the project is more than 1.5 billion Qatari rials, which is equivalent to $ 412 million. Construction is scheduled to be completed in the second quarter of 2024. It is noted that the new hydraulic tunnel in Qatar will be the first major project financed within the framework of a public-private partnership.  

The station is being built for the Youth World Hockey Championship, the sports competitions of which will be held in 2023 at the Ice Arena under construction nearby. It is assumed that the new station will have a capacity of up to 14 thousand passengers per day.

Escalators in the amount of 12 pieces were delivered and mounted at the station in full accordance with the schedule, and the other day the first test launch of one of the escalators took place.

This contract is executed by the Moscow company JSC VO Mashinoimport, which has proven itself in the supply of equipment for the metros of Moscow and St. Petersburg.

“It is necessary to launch all escalators as quickly as possible, since the equipment must be run-in, work a certain number of hours. Only after that it will be put into operation by Rostekhnadzor, “said Sergey Arapov, general director of the contractor company.

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The facility is scheduled to be fully operational by September 2022. The mayor of Novosibirsk, Anatoly Lokot, said that he would like to see the result by the City Day in June 2022.

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The design of the escalators chosen for the Sportivnaya station has proven itself well among metro workers. These escalators are fully adapted to the strict requirements imposed by the Russian supervisory authorities and are already successfully operated in the Moscow Metro, which is characterized by maximum intensity and loads.

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The Novosibirsk metro is so far the only one in Russia located beyond the Urals. It received its first passengers in 1985. Despite its relative youth, the Novosibirsk Metro ranks third among Russian metros in terms of traffic volume, second only to Moscow and St. Petersburg.

The rolling stock consists of 25 trains (100 cars), 32 escalators are in operation.

The sportivnaya station, for which escalators are intended according to the contract with Mashinoimport JSC, will be the first to be commissioned after a long break since 2011.

“The draft amendments to the General Plan were prepared to clarify the provisions of the document and bring it into line with the current requirements in the field of urban planning legislation,” commented Sergey Shanov, Head of the Department of Urban Planning of Samara.

The new Master Plan designates the third metro line. It will pass from moskovsky Highway, through Gagarin Street, Partizanskaya Street, Verkhne-Kariernaya Street, then across the Samara River, along the Southern Highway to Dolotny Lane. The stations will be located near the intersection of Moskovsky Highway, Karl Marx and Gagarin Avenues, at the intersection of Partizanskaya and Aerodromnaya streets, as well as in the village of Tolevy. The final station of the site is planned to be located at the intersection of Pugachevsky Tract with Dolotny Lane.

Part of the third line will be held in tunnels along the Southern Highway, two underground stations will open for passengers. Most of the route will become above-ground, and a metro bridge will be built across the Samara River.

Recall that in mid-December of this year, the Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Gleb Nikitin presented Valentina Matvienko with projects for the development of the region.

The solemn ceremony of launching the site was attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.

9 new stations appeared on the scheme of the capital’s “subway”: “Terekhovo”, “Kuntsevskaya”, “Davydkovo”, “Aminevskaya”, “Michurinsky Prospekt”, “Prospekt Vernadskogo”, “Novatorskaya”, “Vorontsovskaya”, “Zyuzino”. The Kakhovskaya station was reconstructed in accordance with the new requirements for transport infrastructure.

“Today is a historic event for the Moscow Metro – 10 stations are opening at once. I congratulate everyone on this event and this success. The new BCL stations will significantly improve the transport accessibility of districts in the west and south of Moscow. For millions of people, trips will become faster and more comfortable. The whole rhythm of the city will change,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said via videoconference.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin called BCL the central project of the capital’s transport hub. Together with the MCC, it is a new supporting framework for the entire transport system of Moscow.

At the moment, the construction of the BCL is completed by 70%. The main work will be completed in 2022, and in 2023, the largest metro ring will close and begin to work in full mode.

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At the moment, 22 stations operate on the BCL, the length of the line is 43.75 km.

The sinking of all BCL tunnels will be completed in December 2021, after the last 2 sections are completed. The first section with a length of 7.2 km runs from the station “Elektrozavodskaya” to “Savelovskaya”, its length is 7.2 km. The second – from “Kashirskaya” to “Nizhegorodskaya” – has a length of 11.4 km.

The Bolshaya Koltsevaya Line is the largest project in the history of metro construction in Russia and one of the largest in the world. The length of the BCL will be 70 km, it will include 31 stations and 3 electric depots. It will relieve the Ring Line, as passengers will not have to go to the center to transfer to the radial branch. Thus, BCL will save passengers 35 – 45 minutes a day.

During the construction of the BCL, technical solutions were laid that will allow to connect new metro radii to it: Rublevo-Arkhangelskaya, Troitskaya and Biryulyovskaya lines.

From the stations of the Big Ring it will be possible to make 23 transfers to 11 other metro lines, 4 – to the Moscow Central Ring (MCC), 6 – to the MCD-1 and MCD-2 and 11 transfers to other branches of the railway.

To date, the company has passed the first qualifying stage, confirming the qualification. This will be followed by the preparation of a feasibility study for a metro project in Izmir, Turkey’s third most populous city.Within the framework of the project, it is planned to build tunnels and 11 underground stations, as well as a depot, a building of production workshops and a connecting tunnel between the main line and the depot territory.

In addition to the implementation of construction and installation works, the tender provides for the detailed design of metro facilities, the supply of basic equipment and materials. The implementation of the project will take place in conditions of dense urban development in difficult engineering-geological conditions of the region with unstable seismic.

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The first metro line in Izmir was opened in May 2000. There are 17 stations on the 20.1 km long line. The first metro line partially included a railway line to the resort area of Bornova. The total cost of the project is $600 million.

“The Bolshoy Moskovsky District received two stations for the first time, and the Bolshaya Koltsevaya Line (BKL) has grown two more stations. In total, there are now 12 stations in the BKL, there are very few left – 19 more to build. But I am sure that we will cope with this task, ” the portal of the Complex of Urban Planning Policy and Construction quotes Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.

Stations Narodnoe Opolchenie (project name “Karamyshevskaya“) and “Mnevniki” became the first metro stations in the Khoroshevo-Mnevniki district, where 174 thousand people live, and the planned population growth, taking into account the construction and prospective facilities and the implementation of the housing renovation program, is 76 thousand people. In the future, it will be possible to transfer from the Narodnoye Opolchenie station to the Rublevo-Arkhangelsk line of the Moscow Metro.

“The introduction of new stations is a kind of driver for the development of the Mnevniki district, where administrative and residential development will develop. It will also relieve the central lines: Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya and Filevskaya, ” commented Yuri Kravtsov, General Director of Mosinzhproekt JSC.

The expected passenger traffic is 40 thousand passengers per day, in the future it will increase to 90 thousand.

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Narodnoye Opolchenie is the eighth station of the Moscow metro, built and commissioned using Hilti elements for fixing the lining of the track wall. This solution meets the high requirements of the metro for reliability and safety, which is especially important for the daily service of 10 million passengers.

In the construction of the station, the most modern European Hilti technologies were used, which made it possible to speed up the finishing and installation works and complete them on time in accordance with the decree of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Marat Khusnullin.

In the finishing of the station, a facade system is used, the design of which consists of two parts: a galvanized MR subsystem for the perception of wind loads and loads from the weight of the cladding, and an aluminum VFH system for high installation accuracy and creating a unique interior.

Unitary company “Toshkent Metro” and the state investment bank VEB.RF Corporation signed a loan agreement worth 30.4 million for a period of 12 years. The modern rolling stock will be manufactured at the Moscow-based company Metrovagonmash, owned by Transmashholding, whose share capital is distributed among a group of Russian businessmen and the French company Alstom, which owns 20% of the capital. Iskander Mahmudov, Andrei Bokarev, Dmitry Komissarov and Kirill Lipa own 79.4%. The estimated lifespan of 10 four-car trains is 30 years.

Inter-car crossings of modular design with pass through provide unhindered movement of passengers, two-fold sliding doors 1.4 meters wide with an external light alarm open and closed condition allow the passenger to comfortably land and disembark. There are wheelchair seats in the main carriages. The passenger cabin is equipped with sensory information monitors with interactive means of finding a destination station, laying a route, calculating the time of travel. The driver’s cabins are equipped with CCTV, air conditioning and air decontamination systems.

The windshield of the driver’s cabin will be equipped with an adjustable hand-held sun screen for safe and comfortable driving, because the Tashkent metro system has ground sections, and the bright sun shines 248 days a year.

Under the contract, announced in March 2020, the Keolis-MHI consortium consisting of Keolis (70%), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering (25%) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering (25%). and Mitsubishi Corp (5%), will replace British Serco as operator of the 79-kilometre section of the Dubai Metro and 10.6 km of light rail lines in the suburb of Al-Sufouh. The transfer of power will take place in September 2021. The cost of the agreement is about 125 million per year.

“We strive to ensure the highest standards of operation, maintenance, safety and safety for metro and tram drivers, and must achieve competitive performance and punctuality of travel,” said RTA CEO Mattar Mohammed Al Thayer.

According to the contract, the consortium must operate and maintain the Dubai Metro Red and Green Lines, as well as the 2020 Route 2020 Line, which will open in 2021. It is noted that in the future it will be extended to Al Maktoum International Airport. The company will also ensure the smooth operation of the Dubai Tram and all the assets of the metro and tram networks, including trains, control centers, stations and related infrastructure.

 

“We are honored to be selected by RTA together with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering and Mitsubishi Corporation to operate and maintain Dubai’s complex driverless metro system and without a contact network,” added Keolis Group CEO Marie-Ange Debon.

She noted that Keolis boasts extensive experience in managing automated subway and tram networks, and looks forward to a successful collaboration with RTA Dubai, which will provide the city with the smooth operation of comfortable and safe public transport.

In addition, it is planned to extend the Dzerzhinsky (green) metro line 5.4 km by 2030. Also on the line will appear its own electric depot “Volochayevskaya.”Recall that at the moment in the capital of Siberia continues the construction of the metro station “Sports” opening of which is timed to the youth world championship in hockey in 2023. The station will be located on the left bank of the Obi on the existing Lenin line.

The project may require federal funding to complete the project. Work on the design of the second distillation tunnel between the existing stations “Berezh Grove” and “Golden Niva” on the Dzerzhinsky line, on which the movement is carried out in shuttle mode, also begins. However, the work on the extension of the Dzerzhinsky line will begin to be financed only after the commissioning of the “Sports” station.