Three new metro lines will appear in Moscow by 2030

By 2030, three new metro lines will appear in Moscow, and trains from distant suburbs will run to the capital six times more often than now. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin spoke about this. Residents of the Yaroslavl and Paveletsky directions of the railway will receive new tariffs and the opportunity to freely transfer to the MCC and the subway.

The capital’s mayor Sergei Sobyanin spoke about the prospects for the development of Moscow’s rail frame until 2030 in his blog. By 2030, it is planned to complete and open three new metro lines – Troitskaya (from the existing MCC station “ZIL” to Troitsk), Rublevo-Arkhangelskaya (from the station “Delovoy Tsentr” to the territory of Rublevo-Arkhangelskoye) and Biryulevskaya (from the MCC station “ZIL” to the Biryulyovo Western and Eastern districts).

Four new stations will also be built on existing branches – “Yuzhny Port” (Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line), “Golyanovo” (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya), “Potapovo” (Sokolnicheskaya) and “Suvorovskaya” (Koltsevaya). Sergei Sobyanin said that new stations will also appear on the MCD (one of them is Mitkovo on the third diameter). Some stations will undergo reconstruction, as, for example, at Shcherbinka MCD-2.

In total, the capital’s authorities promise to reconstruct and modernize 125 MCD and MCC stations.

The stations will be brought into compliance with the standard of the Moscow City Station (includes the construction of a building with elevators and escalators with the possibility of comfortable transfers to other modes of transport). Now more than 80 stations have station status.

It is also planned to include the Yaroslavl and Paveletsk railway lines in the Moscow tariff system. These directions, we recall, were initially supposed to become part of the MCD-5 Pushkino-Domodedovo with an underground tunnel under the center of Moscow. But at the moment, the tunnel project has been postponed indefinitely due to technical difficulties – the vice-mayor of the capital, Maxim Liksutov, spoke about this at the end of 2023. Therefore, the mayor’s office is still developing certain areas of MCD-5.

You can already use the Troika card to pay for travel on electric trains, but for now you cannot use free transfers to the metro/MCC, as on other diameters – this, apparently, is what the city authorities are planning to introduce.

It is still unclear what will happen to the tariffs: now, for example, you can travel from Yaroslavsky station to Pushkino for 132 rubles. on a regular train and for 260 rubles on the REX express train. Chairman of the All-Russian Association of Passengers Ilya Zotov believes that prices may decrease as a result, as happened after the launch of other diameters.

Sergei Sobyanin also announced plans to organize clocked train movement by 2030 as part of the development of the Central Transport Hub (CTU).

About this project, let us remind you, the mayor said back in August last year. It is planned that electric trains from Tula, Yaroslavl, Vladimir and other cities will run towards Moscow once every 20–30 minutes (currently once every 45–180 minutes). At the same time, some trains will reach MCD hubs (terminal stations), where some passengers will be able to transfer to trains of the diameter system, and some will continue, as now, to Moscow.

There are no details of the CTU development program yet: at the end of last year, Maxim Liksutov said that the draft program was sent to the Russian government, where a meeting on this topic was to be held, but the results were not reported. Sergei Sobyanin said on Monday that “trains connecting Moscow with regional centers and the largest cities of Central Russia will run six times more often.”

Let us note that the costs for the development of the Moscow transport system, according to the budget adopted by the Moscow City Duma, are planned until 2026 inclusive. In 2024, 940.5 billion rubles are allocated for this, in 2025 – 947.1 billion rubles, in 2026 – 918.5 billion rubles. Including a total of more than 726 billion rubles will be allocated for the development of metro lines.

Sergei Sobyanin on Monday also announced plans to implement the VSM-1 Moscow-St. Petersburg high-speed highway project, which will reduce travel time between the capitals from 4 hours 5 minutes to 2 hours 15 minutes. Details of this project, we recall, at the end of last week discussed at a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, as Kommersant reported on February 17.

Ivan Buranov