Chord opening. The puzzle is being assembled: which sections of the North-East Expressway are already open. Competition: section from Shchelkovsky highway to Otkrytoye

It is planned to open traffic on two sections of the North-East Expressway by early autumn. Over the next month, the initial section from the Businovskaya interchange to the Dmitrovskoye Highway will be opened, and by the beginning of autumn it is also planned to launch traffic along the final section of the route - from the Entuziastov Highway to the Moscow Ring Road.

Read about the stage of readiness of sections of the North-Eastern Expressway and when they are expected to open in the material of the Moscow 24 portal.

From Businovskaya interchange to Dmitrovskoe highway

Now the road between Dmitrovskoye Highway, Festivalnaya Street and Businovskaya Interchange is almost ready, builders are finishing the construction of a two-hundred-meter section in the area of the Khovrinskaya pumping station.

“The Khovrinskaya pumping station, which supplied more than three and a half thousand consumers, fell into the construction zone. We built a new station, but we were able to disconnect all systems from the previous one only on May 15 of this year, and we quickly began to build a two-hundred-meter section. We expect that we will finish in September. We will strive to open traffic for City Day,” First Deputy Head of the Construction Department Pyotr Aksenov told the Moscow 24 portal.

What is ready on the section from Dmitrovskoye Highway to Festivalnaya Street?

More than 11 kilometers of four-lane main road, seven overpasses, two of which are one and a half kilometers long, and ramps ranging from 300 to 500 meters in length were built on the site. A new overpass across the Oktyabrskaya Railway and a bridge over the Likhoborka River were built.

“At the same time, the construction of the overpass across the railway proceeded without stopping the movement of trains,” noted the first deputy head of the Department of Construction.

We also took care of protection from highway noise. “We have replaced six thousand window blocks, and we will also build about two kilometers of noise barriers,” Aksenov promised. According to him, trees will be planted along the road.

In October, a reversal overpass will be built on Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street, connecting the North-East Expressway with the North-West. “The overpass on Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street is the first part of the connection of the two highways. It makes it possible to turn around on Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street and enter the North-Eastern Expressway without entering Dmitrovskoe Highway,” Aksenov noted.

From the Entuziastov highway to the interchange with the Moscow Ring Road "Veshnyaki - Lyubertsy"

In September, it is planned to open traffic on another section of the North-Eastern Expressway: from Entuziastov Highway to the Veshnyaki-Lyubertsy interchange on the Moscow Ring Road. Here the stumbling block was the old traction substation of the Gorky direction of the Moscow Railway. According to Pyotr Aksenov, the capital’s government has agreed with the Moscow Railway on the demolition of the substation and the construction of a new one.

“We turned off the traction substation and switched it to a new one, after which we began to complete the construction of the road. Full traffic from the Entuziastov highway to the interchange with the MKAD “Veshnyaki - Lyubertsy” will open in early autumn,” he promised.

From Otkrytoye to Shchelkovskoe highway

By the end of the year, the capital’s authorities plan to open traffic from Otkrytoye to Shchelkovskoe highway. Overpasses of the main passage and side passages were built here. And also a tunnel under the Shchelkovskoye Highway, which is going to open in the coming months. According to Pyotr Aksenov, the construction of roads more than eight kilometers long with the relocation of utilities is in full swing.

“On the section of the first section, traffic is planned to be opened within the next month. The main work of the first stage of construction has been completed. It includes the laying of about 5.5 kilometers of roads, including the construction of three overpasses about 3.4 kilometers long,” said a government official.

He also noted that thanks to the commissioning of a new section, traffic flows between Shchelkovskoye and Otkrytoye highways will be redistributed. This will reduce the traffic load on Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya, Stromynka, Krasnobogatyrskaya streets and Rusakovskaya embankment. In addition, transport accessibility of the Golyanovo and Metrogorodok districts will increase.

From Dmitrovskoe highway to Yaroslavskoe highway

Next year, construction of the section of the North-Eastern Expressway from Dmitrovskoye to Yaroslavskoye Highway may begin.

“The planning project has passed public hearings, has finally received approval from the Moscow government, design is now underway. The site is very complex, there is a cluster of large industrial enterprises and a huge number of utility networks. We are doing everything possible so that construction begins next year,” said the first deputy head Depstroya.

He emphasized that the design of the site and the liberation of the territory will be carried out at the expense of budget money. “We are already starting to work: demolishing garages and interacting with industrial enterprises that fall into the construction zone,” Aksenov noted.

At the same time, there is a proposal from investors to build a road from Dmitrovskoye to Yaroslavskoye highway on a concession basis, but a final decision on this issue has not yet been made, he explained.

From Otkrytoye to Yaroslavskoe highway

The only section of the North-Eastern Expressway on which no work is currently underway is from Otkrytoye to Yaroslavskoye Highway.

“The problem is that, presumably, the road should pass through the Losiny Ostrov national park, while there is no final decision on the routing of the section. The Moskomarkhitektura is working on the study, when the department completes the work, then we will start talking about the construction of the section,” summed up Pyotr Aksenov .

The North-Eastern Expressway is a first-class citywide main street under construction with continuous traffic. It will run from the Businovskaya interchange along Zelenogradskaya Street. It will cross 4th Likhachevsky Lane and further to the transport interchange with the Northern Road. After which the highway, crossing the tracks of the Oktyabrskaya Railway, will turn east and go along the Small Ring of the Moscow Railway to the Ryazan direction of the Moscow Railway. Further along the railway tracks to the junction of the Moscow Ring Road with the built section of the new toll federal highway "Moscow - Noginsk - Kazan", which within the borders of Moscow will be a first-class main street of citywide significance. Kosinskoye Highway will become part of the new federal road.

The north-eastern highway will connect major highways in the north-eastern part of Moscow: Izmailovskoye, Shchelkovskoye, Dmitrovskoye, Altufevskoye and Otkrytoye highways.

Northern Rokada is a first-class city-wide main street under construction with continuous traffic. The Rokada has a joint section with the North-Eastern Expressway, 4 lanes wide for both directions - from the Businovskaya interchange to the actual interchange with the temporary storage warehouse at the intersection of the Rokada connecting railway branch No. 2 of the Likhobory station - Khovrino station. Further, the highway, still passing from the western side of the ORR, will have 3 lanes in each direction. After the junction with the temporary storage warehouse, an exit to Likhoborskaya embankment will be built. Then, crossing Cherepanov Passage, the street will extend to the transport interchange with the North-Western Expressway at the intersection with Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street. After which it will exit onto Dmitrovskoye Highway using the existing highway junction with Valaamskaya Street. The exit point will have 2 lanes in each direction.

On the section of the Northern Road from Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street to Dmitrovskoye Shosse, a dividing strip and retaining walls will be provided, taking into account the future extension of the highway to Akademika Korolev Street.

According to the project, the North-Eastern Expressway consists of the following sections (from east to north):
Section of the Veshnyaki - Lyubertsy highway in the Kozhukhovo microdistrict (Kosinskoe highway).
The section where the Moscow Ring Road intersects with the Veshnyaki - Lyubertsy highway (Kosinskaya overpass).
The section from the Moscow Ring Road along Krasny Kazanets Street to the Veshnyakovsky overpass.
The section from the Veshnyakovsky overpass to the former Fourth Transport Ring along Pervaya Mayovka Alley and st. Anosova.
A section of the former 4th transport ring to the Oktyabrskaya railway line.
Zelenogradskaya street to the Businovskaya interchange of the Moscow Ring Road.

Construction history:
In December 2008, construction of the Veshnyaki-Lyubertsy highway began.
On October 26, 2009, a 4-kilometer section of the Veshnyaki-Lyubertsy highway was opened from Projected Proezd 300 to Bolshaya Kosinskaya Street.
On December 30, 2009, an overpass was opened at the (new) 8th Street section of Sokolinaya Gora above the Moscow Railway and the future section of the temporary storage warehouse.
On September 3, 2011, a kilometer section of the Veshnyaki-Lyubertsy highway from Bolshaya Kosinskaya to the MKAD and an interchange with the outer side of the MKAD was opened.
On November 24, 2011, the construction of the interchange of the Veshnyaki - Lyubertsy section with the inner side of the Moscow Ring Road and the exit to Krasny Kazanets Street was completed.
On September 5, 2012, a 2.5-kilometer section was opened from Entuziastov Highway (with right-turn exits only) to the intersection with the 1st and 2nd streets of Izmailovsky Menagerie.
On January 30, 2014, left-turn overpasses were opened at the junction of the temporary storage warehouse and the Entuziastov highway.
On September 4, 2014, the entrance (No. 12 at the interchange) from Perovskaya Street to the existing site of the temporary storage warehouse was opened through Entuziastov Highway.
On December 23, 2014, the Businovskaya interchange on the Moscow Ring Road (except for exit No. 5) and a 2.6-kilometer section of the highway from the Moscow Ring Road to Festivalnaya Street were opened.
On June 22, 2015, with the opening of exit No. 5 (from Festivalnaya Street to the outer side of the Moscow Ring Road), the construction of the Businovskaya interchange was completed.
On September 16, 2016, the continuation of the temporary storage warehouse section from the Entuziastov Highway to the Shchelkovskoe Highway, 2.5 km long, was opened.
On August 10, 2017, a left-turn overpass was opened from Shchelkovskoe Highway (to the center) to the temporary storage warehouse in the direction of Entuziastov Highway.
On September 4, 2017, overpasses from Perovskaya Street and the exit from Entuziastov Highway (from the center) to Budyonny Avenue were opened.
On August 20, 2018, the section from Shchelkovskoye Highway to Otkrytoye Highway was opened (the traffic pattern for part of the section is temporary).
On September 4, 2018, a section was opened from Budyonny Avenue and from Entuziastov Highway to the Moscow Ring Road, connecting two already operating fragments of the temporary storage warehouse.
On September 5, 2018, the section from Festivalnaya Street to Dmitrovskoye Shosse was opened (with the exception of certain exits at the intersection with Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street).
On November 29, 2018, a reversal overpass was opened between the intersection with Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street and the intersection with Dmitrovskoye Shosse.
On May 17, 2019, the section from Otkrytoye Highway to Losinoostrovskaya Street was opened.

Road construction in the Russian capital does not stop for a day. And, despite the fact that sometimes it seems that all reserves for improving the transport situation are close to exhaustion, city authorities, designers and builders manage to find new solutions to make life easier for motorists and public transport passengers. The commissioning of a system of chord roads and roads will further relieve congestion in the city center and main ring roads.

Initially, Moscow found itself hostage to the radial-ring transport system. And at a time when motorization was proceeding at a relatively low pace, this state of affairs suited everyone. However, the capital was not ready for a sharp increase in the city’s population and the number of cars at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. Analysts of the construction company Monarch and B, part of the Monarch Group of Companies, came to this conclusion.

The actions taken by the city authorities at that time did not keep up with the pace of its development - new and reconstructed streets instantly turned into places where traffic accumulated.

It became clear that building more and more new rings is a solution that does not have a serious effect and improves the road situation only for a short period of time. But it was obviously impossible to abandon the existing radial-ring system. Under these conditions, the city authorities, together with the best engineering and design minds, had to figure out how to make sure that the city would not get stuck in gigantic traffic jams in the near future.

The main idea was the redistribution of flows. In order to get from one residential area to another, located at the opposite end of the city, there were two travel options: through the Moscow Ring Road and through the center. Alternative routes were either inconvenient or too time consuming. New route options were needed. This is how the project for constructing a system of chords and rockades came into being.

NORTHEASTERN CHORD

This highway will pass the North-Eastern Expressway, 35 kilometers long, running from the new M11 Moscow - St. Petersburg highway to the Kosinskaya overpass - an interchange at the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road with the Veshnyaki - Lyubertsy highway. The chord will connect the Moscow Ring Road, Entuziastov Highway, Izmailovskoye, Shchelkovskoye, Otkrytoye, Yaroslavskoye, Altufevskoye and Dmitrovskoye Highways. It will reduce the traffic load on the center, the Third Ring Road, the Moscow Ring Road and outbound highways.

The other day, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin opened traffic on the overpasses at the interchange of the North-Eastern Expressway with Entuziastov Highway and Budyonny Avenue. In August, an overpass was opened at the intersection of the new highway and Shchelkovskoye Highway. The main work on the construction of the North-Eastern Expressway is planned to be completed in 2019, said the head of the city’s construction complex, Marat Khusnullin.

In addition to the section from Entuziastov Highway to Izmailovskoye Highway, two more have already been built - from the Businovskaya interchange to Festivalnaya Street and from Izmailovskoye to Shchelkovskoye Highway. Currently, work is being carried out in sections from Entuziastov Highway to the Moscow Ring Road and from Festivalnaya Street to Dmitrovskoye Shosse.

NORTHWESTERN CHORD

The purpose of this city highway is to provide a diagonal connection between the northeastern and southwestern districts of the capital, bypassing the city center, to relieve congestion on the Third Transport Ring, MKAD, Garden Ring, Leningradskoye, Volokolamskoye Highways and other highways. The new route will run from Skolkovskoye to Yaroslavskoye highway.

The reconstructed Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street together with the Alabyano-Baltiysky Tunnel formed the main part of the highway, which in the area of Dmitrovskoye Highway adjoined the North-Eastern Expressway and through the Businovskaya interchange gained access to a new highway in the direction of Sheremetyevo Airport.

Thanks to the Mikhalkovsky Tunnel, it became possible to remove traffic light objects. Traffic has already been launched along the overpass at the intersection of Skolkovskoye Highway with Vyazemskaya and Vitebskaya streets, along the turnaround overpass with Ryabinova and the bridge over the Setun River.

It is planned to complete all construction work on the North-Western Expressway and launch the entire highway in 2018.

SOUTH ROKADA

The road will connect the Moscow Ring Road through Rublevskoye Shosse, Balaklavsky Prospekt, Varshavskoye Shosse, Kantemirovskaya Street, Kashirskoye Shosse and Borisovskie Prudy Street. Rokada will serve as a backup for the Moscow Ring Road and the southern section of the Third Ring Road. Its task is to redistribute traffic flows and relieve congestion on the Kashirskoye and Varshavskoye highways, as well as Proletarsky Avenue. The new highway will include existing roads, which will be reconstructed and expanded.

According to the plans of the city authorities, the Southern Road will run from Balaklavsky Prospekt through a tunnel under Varshavskoye Shosse, then through an overpass it will cross the railway tracks, cross the Chertanovka River over the bridge and connect with Kantemirovskaya Street in the area of Proletarsky Prospekt. Then, through the tunnel, drivers will be able to get to Borisovskie Prudy Street in the direction of Maryino. Then the road will go along Verkhnie Polya Street, from where the transport will head towards the Moscow Ring Road through Kapotnya.

To date, the section from Rublevskoye Highway to Balaklavsky Prospekt has already been put into operation. Overpasses and pedestrian crossings were built here. The capital’s authorities plan to build an interchange at the intersection of Warsaw Highway and Balaklava Avenue. A tunnel, overpass, turning ramps and side passages will appear at this location. In addition, an overpass will be built under the Paveletsky direction, a bridge over the Chertanovka River and an underground pedestrian crossing. And the section from the intersection with Proletarsky Prospekt to the Moscow Ring Road will be formed using existing streets.

Total length of chord roads will be about 243 kilometers. Over a hundred transport structures - tunnels, overpasses, bridges and overpasses - will be built on them. The launch of traffic on new high-speed routes will make it possible to create virtually a new ring, but with exits to the Moscow Ring Road, which will relieve congestion on the last and Third transport rings. The plans are to connect the North-Western and North-East Expressways in the area of Festivalnaya Street with access to the road to the Businovskaya interchange and then to the Moscow-St. Petersburg toll highway. The Southern Road will intersect with the North-Western Expressway in the Krylatskoye area.

Moscow. Let's continue the topic with a review of the main objects of the Northern and Northeastern districts.

A pleasant surprise: in the north and northeast of Moscow, not one, but two chord corridors are now being formed! About one of them, a highway without traffic lights Northeast chord, is well known. But the local and traffic light chord from Festivalnaya Street to Malygina Street(with the prospect of extension to Malyginsky Proezd) is unknown even to local residents.

In blue is the North-Eastern chord, in green is the local chord of the street. Festivalnaya – st. Malygina

Large chord, North-Eastern

The North-Eastern Expressway (formerly the Northern Road) will run from the St. Petersburg – Moscow toll highway to the Moscow – Noginsk toll highway. Its alignment entirely along the railways (Oktyabrskaya, MKMZD, Kazan) is the best possible corridor for passing a traffic-light-free highway.

Site plans
Businovskaya interchange with MKAD

Section Businovskaya – Festivalnaya

Section Festivalnaya – Mosselmash

Section from Dmitrovskoe highway to Yaroslavskoe highway

The section from Yaroslavskoye Highway to Otkrytoe Highway (via Losiny Ostrov) is still being designed, there is no diagram.
Section from Otkrytoye to Shchelkovskoe highway

Section from Shchelkovskoye to Izmailovskoye highway
Section from Entuziastov Highway to Izmailovskoye Highway

Section from Enthusiastov Highway to MKAD

Now 2 sections are actively being built: in the north (Businovskaya interchange and the section to Festivalnaya Street) and in the east (the section from Entuziastov Highway to Izmailovskoye Highway, formerly included in the title of the Fourth Ring). The rest are being designed.

Small chord, nameless

This chord will increase the connectivity of the local network, broken by railways, and will connect the Northern Administrative District and the North-Eastern Administrative District, Leningradskoye, Korovinskoye, Dmitrovskoye, Altufevskoye Shosse and Yeniseiskaya Street. And in the future it will also reach Yaroslavskoye Highway.

However, this local notochord is so little known that it does not even have a common name! Previously, it was called the “northern backup of the Moscow Ring Road.” Bad choice: the corridor will connect local streets, which will remain traffic lights, what kind of backup is there for the Moscow Ring Road? In the Moscow Targeted Investment Program for 2013-2015. this road is called the “highway from the street. Festivalnaya to Altufevskoe highway.” But this is also incorrect: the corridor does not end with Altufevskoye Shosse, but goes out to Bibirevskaya, Shirokaya and Malygina streets, with the prospect of extending to Malyginsky Proezd. In general, for clarity, I suggest calling it highway from Festivalnaya Street to Malyginsky Proezd.

This corridor will be created by 3 overpasses with interchanges - through the Oktyabrskoye, Savelovskoye and Yaroslavskoye directions of the railway. The diagram below shows the current state of affairs.

The first of them, between Festivalnaya and Taldomskaya, is already under construction.

It's interesting that it's being built within the North-East Expressway(more precisely, according to the title of the Northern Rockada, as it was previously called). Some opponents of chords do not like to remember this: this fact does not fit into the ideologeme “the chord breaks local connectivity.” As we can see, in this case, the traffic-lightless North-Eastern Expressway not only does not disrupt local connectivity, but even enhances it! In the Moscow AIP for 2013-2015. this interchange is called "Section of the Moscow - St. Petersburg highway (Northern Road), transport interchange at the intersection with Festivalnaya Street." 4,100 million rubles have been allocated for its construction. Time frame 2012-2014

The second overpass will be built under a separate title “Highway from the street. Festivalnaya to Altufevskoe highway with an overpass with the Savelovsky direction of the Moscow Railway.” The Targeted Investment Program has allocated 200 million for design; the design period is 2014-2016. 2685 million has been allocated for construction, time frame 2015-2016. There is no scheme yet.

There is no third overpass (through the Yaroslavl railway line) in AIP yet. But the overpass across Malyginsky Passage, which is now being completed as part of the reconstruction of the Yaroslavl highway, creates all the prerequisites for including this overpass in the AIP in the coming years. This would end the isolation of the Yaroslavl region from the rest of the North-Eastern District and would relieve the Yaroslavl highway from those who do not need to go to the center, but to the North-East Administrative District or the Northern Administrative District.

What other new connections will appear in NEAD?
The broken parts will finally be connected Shokalsky passage. Now everyone has to travel 1.5 kilometers, moreover, passing through 2 busy intersections and the Medvedkovo metro station.

Probok.net presented this proposal in the program "Road Paradoxes" in 2011.

In the AIP, the title is called “Section of Shokalsky Passage from Zarevoy Proezd to Grekova Street”, 5 million are allocated for design for 2014, for construction - 30 million for 2015.

What's next?
It just begs to be extended the local Festivalnaya-Malyginsky route to the west, to the North-Western District, which is virtually isolated from the rest of Moscow. Unfortunately, Festivalnaya Street in the area of Leningradskoye Shosse abuts the Khimki Reservoir, and the connection with Jana Rainis Boulevard that suggests itself here is not even in the General Plan 2025. We will monitor the changes and implementation of the plans.

Currently, work on the construction of three new highways is in full swing in the capital: the North-Western and North-Eastern Expressways, as well as the South Road.

North-East Expressway

Length North-East Expressway will be about 29 kilometers. It must, bypassing the center of the capital, urban areas in the north and southeast of Moscow, which are considered the most densely populated.

The highway will pass through the largest highways in the northeast of the capital - Dmitrovskoye, Altufevskoye, Otkrytoye, and Izmailovskoye highways, allowing them to significantly relieve congestion. The chord is being laid from the Moscow-St. Petersburg toll road on the western side of the Oktyabrskaya Railway, along the Small Ring of the Moscow Railway to a new interchange on the Moscow Ring Road at the intersection with the Veshnyaki-Lyubertsy highway.

There will be a railway overpass on the section of the North-Eastern Expressway from Festivalnaya Street to Dmitrovskoye Shosse. It is necessary to accommodate branch No. 2 of the Moscow railway junction, which connects the Khovrino and Likhobory stations.

On this site it is also planned to build 4 automobile overpasses, two overpasses over the railway tracks and additional ramps to them. This will allow residents of nearby areas to significantly save time on travel to Dmitrovskoye Highway. Currently, in order to get onto the highway, you have to make a detour. The opening of this section will allow access to the highway directly in the area of the Petrovsko-Razumovskaya metro station.

The North-Eastern Expressway is divided into sections:

From Businovskaya interchange to Festivalnaya street (put into operation in 2014);

From Festivalnaya Street to Dmitrovskoe Highway (under construction);

From Dmitrovskoe highway to Yaroslavskoe highway (projected);

From Yaroslavskoye to Otkrytoye Shosse (route not determined);

From Otkrytoye to Shchelkovskoe highway (projected);

From Shchelkovskoe highway to Izmailovskoe highway (everything was built except the tunnel over Shchelkovskoe highway);

From Izmailovskoye Highway to Entuziastov Highway (under construction);

From the Entuziastov highway to the interchange at the 8th kilometer of the MKAD Veshnyaki - Lyubertsy (projected).

Next year, a section of the “Northern Road” from Entuziastov Highway to the Moscow Ring Road. Over 12 kilometers of roads will be built here, including six overpasses with a total length of more than 3.7 kilometers. In addition, this site provides for the construction of an underground pedestrian crossing and the reconstruction of two existing ones.

Also, until the end of next year, a section of the highway from Shchelkovskoye to Otkrytoye Shosse will be built. Here, work is being carried out on the construction of new ramps, as well as an entrance to the industrial zone.

On this section, an overpass will be built for traffic towards Shchelkovskoye Highway, an overpass for exiting to Otkrytoye Shosse, an exit from the North-Eastern Expressway to Otkrytoye Shosse and an exit section from Shchelkovskoye Shosse to the Northern Rokada.

But the construction of two sections of the highway - Izmailovskoye Highway - Shchelkovskoye Highway and Izmailovskoye Highway - Entuziastov Highway - is planned for this year. Moreover, work on the Enthusiast Highway has already reached the finish line.

This section of the North-Eastern Expressway will run along the MCC tracks and cross the Entuziastov Highway in the area of the metro station of the same name. Construction work is underway on the main route of the Northern Road, Entuziastov Highway, Budyonny Avenue, Perovskaya Street, Anosova Street, Elektrodny Proezd and other adjacent sections of the road network. There will be 5 pedestrian crossings and more than 7 kilometers of tram tracks.

Currently, construction has been completed and 5 overpasses, 3 pedestrian crossings, as well as the Lefortovo MCC station have been put into operation. The work in this area is 85 percent completed.

The construction of the temporary storage warehouse is planned to be completed in two years.

The construction of the North-Eastern Expressway is designed to provide a diagonal connection between the north, east and south-east of the capital, reducing the traffic load on the city center, the Third Ring Road, the Moscow Ring Road and outbound highways.

The North-Eastern Expressway will provide transport services for the reorganized industrial zones in the Eastern Administrative District and the Southern Eastern Administrative District, will allow for the organization of traffic without traffic lights thanks to the construction of a section of the road from the Moscow Ring Road to the Open Highway, which will reduce the average travel time by more than 15 percent and relieve congestion on the ring road by 20–25 percent, reducing the level of air pollution in residential buildings in the Bogorodsky, Sokolniki, Basmanny districts by approximately 10 percent, and will also make the acoustic conditions in these areas more comfortable.

North-Western Expressway

The chord will stretch from Skolkovskoye to Yaroslavskoye Highway and will relieve congestion in the central part of the city, providing a diagonal connection between the north-eastern and south-western regions of Moscow. This will help relieve congestion on the Third Transport Ring, MKAD, Garden Ring, Leningradskoye and Volokolamskoye highways, as well as other highways.

The chord length will be about 29 kilometers. It is planned to make traffic along it without traffic lights.

The following facilities will be built along the North-Western Expressway:

Alabyano-Baltiysky tunnel (built);

Mikhalkovsky tunnel (allowed the removal of the traffic light at the intersection of Bolshaya Akademicheskaya and Mikhalkovskaya streets);

Left turn tunnel on the Moscow – St. Petersburg highway;

Tunnel Yartsevskaya/Molodogvardeyskaya (along Molodogvardeyskaya);

Tunnel Yartsevskaya/Elninskaya (along Elninskaya);

Left turn tunnel on Rublevskoe highway;

Turnaround tunnel along Rublevskoye Highway (southern side of the highway);

An overpass in front of Rublevskoye Highway, which will connect Krylatskie Hills Street and 3rd Krylatskaya Street;

Bridge-understudy of Krylatsky;

Bridge over the canal near Karamyshevsky;

Overpass across Dmitrovskoye Highway;

Overpass near Gostinichnaya Street;

Overpass across the Small Ring of the Moscow Railway near the Vladykino metro station;

Overpass near the Botanical Garden metro station;

Left turn overpass on Yaroslavskoye Highway;

35 overground and underground pedestrian crossings;

Tunnel at the intersection of Berzarina and People's Militia streets.

The construction work was one of the most difficult on the North-Western Expressway. It passes under Leningradsky Prospekt, two transport tunnels (Volokolamsky and Leningradsky), Zamoskvoretskaya metro line, Podmoskovnaya station of the Moscow Railway, and also connects Alabyan and Bolshaya Akademicheskaya streets.

The North-Western Expressway will increase the Aminevskoye Highway by 25–30 percent. Parts of Vitebskaya Street and Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street have already been built. There are five more complex objects in the works, including the connection of Mosfilmovskaya Street with Aminevskoe Highway and General Dorokhov Street.

In addition, it is planned to build 30 new ones and reconstruct 15 existing ones on the North-Western Expressway. In total, the new highway will have 12 overground and 18 underground crossings, which will make it possible to organize traffic without traffic lights along a significant part of the chord.

The section from Rublevskoye Highway to Balaklavsky Prospekt has already been put into operation: two overpasses on Rublevskoye Highway and pedestrian crossings have been built there.

Among the plans is the construction of a multi-level interchange at the intersection of Varshavskoe Highway (three lanes in each direction). On this section, a tunnel will be built under the Varshavskoye Highway, an overpass towards the Varshavskoye Highway, two turning ramps and side passages for passing turning flows of public transport, an overpass under the Paveletsky direction of the Moscow Railway, as well as a bridge over the Chertanovka River and an underground pedestrian crossing.

At the same time, construction of a railway overpass on the Paveletsky direction of the Moscow Railway will begin this year. According to the project, the first and second tracks will pass along one overpass, the third existing track and the fourth promising track will pass along the second.

And here is a 790-meter overpass at the intersection of Warsaw Highway and Balaklava Avenue in 2018. As part of the project, two pedestrian crossings are being built across Kantemirovskaya Street: one aboveground - at the intersection with 1st Kotlyakovsky Lane, and the second underground - near house No. 58. Double-glazed windows with noise-proof valves are being installed in nearby houses. In total, builders will replace more than 1.8 thousand window blocks.