Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin opened after the reconstruction of the interchange of the Moscow Ring Road with Profsoyuznaya Street. In the city this year, there have been reconstructed 14 junctions of departing highways with the main capital ring, but this is the largest and, as the mayor noted, "one of the most difficult objects on the Moscow Ring Road". With its commissioning, the capacity of both the ring road and the Kaluga highway, also experiencing a global upgrade.

The mayor of the capital admits - until it was possible to solve all the transport problems of the metropolitan metropolis, but the main pain nodes, where there were eternal traffic jams, were unleashed.

"Nevertheless, of course, in the future there is still work to be done on the reconstruction of some sections of the Moscow Ring Road, secondary junctions. But nevertheless, what has been done here and now, I think is a great victory for road workers. Moreover, this object is very complicated: a huge number of main, engineering networks, a gas pipeline, electric networks, high-voltage, squeezed from all sides by shopping centers. Because of this situation, for many years nobody has dared to approach this object. Nevertheless, we went to this site, solved all the problems, and today we launch this object to the City Day, "Sobyanin said..

Sergei Sobyanin (center). Photo: stroi. mos. ru Indeed, the intersection with the Kaluga Highway, which became the main highway of New Moscow, is one of the busiest on the Moscow Ring Road. Also because it is adjacent to many shopping centers.

During the reconstruction, which lasted from February 2015. until this September, four new flyovers and one tunnel were built, transitional-speed strips along the Moscow Ring Road were equipped; extended the main section of the Kaluga Highway to four lanes in each direction, side crossings along the shopping centers "Mega" and IKEA, organized a trip to the territory of the shopping center from the Kaluga highway, pockets for public transport. In total, more than 13 km of roads have been built, of which more than 2 km - along overpasses and a tunnel.

Photo: stroi. mos. ru According to calculations, now the throughput of the decoupling will be more than 33 thousand. cars - 1.8 times more than before reconstruction. For entrances-exits this indicator will grow twice - from 3 thousand. to almost 6,5 thousand. machines.

With the introduction of the MKAD interchange - Trade Union, the first important stage of the reconstruction of the Moscow Ring Road. In the coming years, the work on the highway will be continued. "In particular, the reconstruction of the interchange with Lipetsk Street and Besedinsky Highway. In the study - the reconstruction projects and other less large-scale interchanges, "- said Deputy Mayor of Moscow on Urban Development Policy and Construction Marat Khusnullin.

Photo: stroi. mos. en.