What is a hard drive tunnel? Two unique tunnels and a bridge were built on the northwestern highway. More than it seems.

A “Winchester” tunnel will appear in the capital. The underground road, which will become part of the North-Western Expressway, will be built on People's Militia Street. At the top, the traffic lights will be removed, and in the tunnel itself, cars will drive on two floors - one above the other.

A quarter of the People's Militia Street will go underground. City transport will be moved into the tunnel. It will be built using a special technology: along the tunnel section, two multidirectional flows will flow one above the other, on two floors.

This principle was dubbed “Winchester” - due to its similarity to a rifle, the two barrels of which also lie on top of each other. Each direction - towards Marshal Zhukov Street on the odd side and towards Leningradka on the even side - will be removed into separate tunnels. They start at the same time and at the same depth. Gradually the left side rises and shifts towards the right, which is longer. Once the short left hand section ends, cars exit it into an open area. The cars will move for a hundred meters along the roof of the right tunnel. This is the "Winchester".

The engineers did such tricks for a reason. To relieve congestion on People's Militia Street, they first planned to build an overpass. But local residents protested. We stopped at the tunnel at the intersection with Berzarina Street.

“I believe that the overpass was not a very optimal option. Therefore, judging by the project, such a tunnel is quite good, worthy.” “It will still go down. It will be quieter and calmer,” local residents believe.

The tunnel will become part of the North-West Expressway. Its planned width is six lanes, and the People's Militia - four. To avoid a narrow “neck”, we had to expand it. With conventional technology, the tunnels would run too close to the foundations of houses.

“Building a Winchester tunnel is a difficult decision; it was made solely at the request of residents. If we built two standard tunnels, it would be quite close to the houses,” the Deputy Mayor in the Moscow Government for Urban Planning emphasizes in an interview with the program politics and construction Marat Khusnullin.

The length of the tunnel is almost 800 meters. This will make it possible to remove three traffic lights from Tukhachevsky, Berzarin, and Biryuzov streets. Drivers complain about them tirelessly.

“The problem is the traffic lights, especially at the Oktyabrsky Pole. Everything is worth it.” “Here at rush hour you can stand for up to half an hour,” say the drivers.

On both sides of the tunnel there will be a lane for public and private transport - so that residents of houses on People's Militia Street can freely drive up to their homes. For pedestrians there are five underground passages. Additional turnarounds will be built on the free area above the tunnel. The number of lanes will not decrease during construction. All four lanes will be moved closer to the odd-numbered side of the street. For those traveling towards Leningradka, a temporary lane has already been opened. For those who will move to Marshal Zhukov, it is now being completed. And the first cars will travel through the new tunnel next year.

Text: "Vesti-Moscow"

So, the next Columbus discoveries in the modern history of Moscow, through the eyes of Mayor Sobyanin. It must be said that a series of blunders is already a tradition. Let’s not be angry and won’t remind Sobyanin of the “1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'” in 2015. The renamed Yuri Dolgorukov, holding either a club or a spear in his hands (in fact, this is St. George the Victorious from the coat of arms of Moscow). But Sobyanin should have been a little more careful in boasting about his “achievements” in my home district, in Khoroshevo-Mnevniki. Should I forgive him for screwing up? Never!
So, we open the page with all sorts of election rubbish on the official page of the mayor of Moscow and see - oops! In Khoroshevo-Mnevniki, two MCC stations “Khoroshevo” and “Sorge” were opened. WAY ME!!! As many as two and at once in Khoroshevo-Mnevniki? Isn't it fat?

Sorge Street, the official name of which is the MCC station of the same name, is even located in another district of Moscow - in the Northern. The design name of the station was “Novopeschanaya”, “Peschanaya”. This is the Khoroshevsky district, or even Sokol. And the Khoroshevo-Mnevniki district is nearby, in the northwestern district. The closest to the station is Marshal Biryuzov Street. This is Shchukino. Oh well. Sorge station "Located on the border of the Khoroshevo-Mnevniki district (SZAO) and the Khoroshevsky district (SAO). Exits from the station are to 3rd Khoroshevskaya street, Sorge, Berzarina and Marshal Biryuzov streets. 800 m northwest of the station there is a station “Oktyabrskoe Pole” metro station of the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line. To the east of the station there is the VEB Arena stadium, and it is planned to organize a pedestrian zone between it and the station,” Wikipedia tells us.
To say that this station is located in Khoroshevo-Mnevniki means to seriously misrepresent the soul and the map.

It also cannot be said that the Khoroshevo MCC station is located in Khoroshevo-Mnevniki. It is located on the border of two districts of the northern and northwestern and two districts - Khoroshevsky and Khoroshevo-Mnevniki. The Khoroshevo station is even marked with a transfer to the Polezhaevskaya metro station. This is another administrative district of Moscow. This is the northern district. Yes, you can get to Khoroshevo-Mnevniki from the Khoroshevo station, but again you can’t say that it’s located in our area. Apparently, the Moscow mayor's office and Sobyanin are quite slow with the achievements in our area, since they had to pull the MCC stations by the ears.

THIS IS HOW THEY PROMISED IT


http://www.m24.ru/infographics/3216

BUT THAT'S HOW THEY BUILT THE "WEAK WINCHESTER". FEEL THE DIFFERENCE WITH THE FIRST PICTURE ABOVE

It didn’t help, apparently, then I had to take out the sandy soil (too heavy) and fill it with a bunch of gravel. A wretched and crooked building, as stupid as all modern shitty construction.

Let's place our bets, gentlemen, how long will it take for the tunnel to “move” like the legs of a clay colossus?

The same dubious achievement is the improvement of General Karbyshev Boulevard. This is the third improvement since 2007. In 11 years, landscaping has been done on the boulevard three times. It must be said that before the improvement in 2017, the boulevard was in excellent condition. With each improvement it becomes balder and balder, the tiled spaces become larger and the paths wider. Until, apparently, they completely merge in ecstasy with the roadway... By the way, where are the 900 trees and bushes that the landscaping told us about in 2007? Where is this forest of bushes and trees that were planted on the boulevard according to estimates? It is high time to conduct an audit of the existing plantings there. But who will carry out this if the order is to be proud of the improvement on Karbyshev Boulevard and call it the main achievement?

It is strange that the list of achievements does not include the gigantic new buildings that have now “decorated” our area. Quarter 75, which has become a symbol of how you cannot build in Moscow, so as not to turn the city into favelas. Club house "October", another 15 buildings (the whole city) on 3rd Khoroshevskaya Street. On the site of the bakery on Parshina Street, 10, a block of high-rise buildings in Ingrad will now rise, and instead of the calculation of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, a reinforced concrete plant on Berzarina Street (so that in the event of an accident at nuclear reactors at the Kurchatov Institute, the consequences will be quickly eliminated), now another block of high-rise buildings will be built. Let's not forget the strange, illegally built settlement of elite townhouses "Coast of the Capital" under the Zhivopisny Bridge in Serebryany Bor. Let's remember the high-rise building on Zhivopisnaya, 21, stuck into a pine forest on the banks of the Moscow River. Tens of thousands of people will move into the Khoroshevo-Mnevniki area; green spaces are rapidly being destroyed for the next compaction and widening of roads. Isn't this an achievement of Sobyanin's policy? What else? We, Muscovites, continue to be compacted and squeezed into a ring of new buildings. And if you ask me who I will vote for in the elections, I will vote for Vadim Kumin. Not because I like him very much. I will vote because only he has a social program that will improve the lives of Muscovites.

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• November 19th, 2017 , 04:57 pm

So, another deception of residents at public hearings and public hanging of noodles from the Moscow mayor's office. Do you remember, dear residents, when you had no idea that the Khoroshevo-Mnevniki Administration was holding hearings on the construction of the North-Western Expressway across the Mnevnikovskaya floodplain? Here you can read on February 16, 2016 to those few investigators who finally found out about the hearings and came and hung flowery noodles on their ears about the most beautiful and unique cable-stayed bridge.

It will supposedly become an adornment of the capital.))))) Less than a year has passed since they quietly decided to make a dull shitty building. Build a beam, ordinary bridge.

Hundreds of trees and bushes are already being cut down in the Mnevnikovskaya floodplain. Local residents of the historical village of Terehovo (it has existed for 500 years, survived the general secretaries of Lenin, Stalin, Yeltsin, but will not survive the vigorous activity of Sobyanin and his team) witnessed the drilling work. They still want to build luxury housing in the swamp. I really want to eat, the Construction Complex is incredibly gluttonous. Representatives of the capital's officials lie like they breathe! Below I give examples of lies by officials, and articles where they made their promises.

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• March 8th, 2017 , 01:04 pm

The tragedy at the construction site, when the tunnel on the Kaluzhskoe Highway collapsed, showed how poor quality construction is now going on in the city as a whole. I don’t want a repeat of the collapse, but the feeling that the shitty building will continue to crumble does not leave me. I’ll try to rank some objects that cause concern among Moscow residents. There are a lot of photographs and therefore it was decided to make two parts of the article. Of course, it’s worth starting with the large-scale construction of a high-rise building on Zhivopisnaya Street, 21, residential complex “Serebryany Bor” on the Moskva River. Already at the excavation stage, cracks appeared from it. A one-story building collapsed on the territory of a sports club bordering the construction site. The soil is literally crawling under your feet. But nearby, in close proximity to the future house, is the Shchukino high-pressure gas distribution station. It supplies gas to nearby thermal power plants and pipes run from it to three districts of Moscow. The object is strategic and the safety of the residents of the entire microdistrict will depend on its safety.We saw how such a pipe could burst on Ozernaya Street in 2009.

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• December 13th, 2016 , 02:26 am

The Alabyano-Baltic Tunnel can serve as a clear monument to theft and corruption. The most meaningless and expensive tunnel structure in the world, connecting two streets, from which there is no exit to the Leningradskoye Highway. During the construction process, it collapsed, burying people under it; it was flooded by the Tarakanovka underground river that burst out. The tunnel took 10 long years to build. There are countless lies when they promised to open ABT and did not open it. The designer and “father” of this tunnel is now on the international wanted list (Andrey Chernyakov).

It is ironic that Chernyakov was awarded orders for services to the Fatherland. ()

• November 29th, 2016 , 05:45 pm

The miracle of technical thought NPO Cosmos, embodied by the hands of hardworking migrants from all the republics of the former USSR, is beginning to cause problems. There is clearly something wrong with the weak hard drive tunnel. He felt sick. For a week now, three rows of bags have been placed around the tunnel and fences have been erected. Construction equipment is driving at the pedestrian crossing.

BUILDING AND BUILDING, FINALLY BUILT. AND THEY REPAIR IT IMMEDIATELY, BECAUSE IT’S HACKY!

“Dear residents of the Khoroshevo-Mnevniki district! We would like to inform you that from 00:00 on November 20, 2016 until December 25, 2016, through traffic on Berzarina Street through Narodnogo Opolcheniya Street will be closed. The decision to close through traffic in this section was adopted at a meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission to consider the introduction of temporary restrictions or cessation of vehicle traffic on the Moscow Road Road and Road Traffic Roads due to the need to replace the backfill of the tunnel sections at the intersection of Narodnogo Opolcheniya Street and Berzarina Street. detour!"

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• September 14th, 2016 , 01:11 am

• September 14th, 2016 , 12:13 am

I suggest you compare the pictures that the media were full of - the Winchester tunnel at the intersection of the street. People's Militia and st. Berzarina. The need for a tunnel was explained by the fact that “the location of one stream above the other will make it possible to move the highway away from nearby houses along Narodnogo Opolcheniya Street.” We remember all these promises of the Department of Construction very well.

• September 13th, 2016 , 07:42 pm

So, the North-West Expressway has been under construction since 2013. What I saw in the picture, according to tradition, anonymously, was commented on by one of the people involved in the construction industry: “Good afternoon. Most likely,” there is deformation of the tunnel walls, identified by the beacons by the surveyors of MosGorGeoTrest, which is why the tunnel walls are being strengthened so that it does not crack in one point. These actions indicate attempts to distribute the load from one point over the entire length of the tunnel..." The reason is a design or construction error - "... you need to look at the as-built documentation and RD with design supervision notes..."

At first, they decided not to build the Winchester tunnel at the intersection of People's Militia Street and Berzarina Street, because... the project was obscenely expensive, and the contractor, NPO Kosmos, went bankrupt. This tunnel was planned only because the head of the NPO "Cosmos" Andrei Chernyakov (put on the international wanted list), he and his friends and colleagues graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering with a specialty in "Bridges and Tunnels", and besides them, in general - then, I couldn’t do anything. It was Andrei Chernyakov and chief engineer Sergei Chebotarev who pushed through the construction of the Alabyano-Baltic Tunnel back under Luzhkov - with a building that connects only two streets: Bolshaya Akademicheskaya and People’s Militia, from which there is not even an exit onto Leningradskoe Highway.

The Alabyano-Baltiysky tunnel became a monument to sawing and corruption, long standing, 10 years long. The Alabyano-Baltic tunnel officially consumed more than 80 billion rubles. A linear kilometer of a tunnel between two streets of Moscow costs more than one linear kilometer of a tunnel under the English Channel, along the seabed! (Information about comparative costs is in an excellent post "Alabyano-Baltic tunnel with whores and blackjack" at Newman's

In 2016, Russia's first Winchester-type transport tunnel opened in Moscow. Due to its two-story design, the structure has greater throughput and at the same time takes up less space than standard transport interchanges. A RIA Real Estate correspondent found out how the Gormost State Budgetary Institution maintains the tunnel, what is in its technical rooms and how the building in the form of a glass ball on the Sokol is connected to the object.

Double-barreled shotgun principle

Despite its uniqueness, the transport structure in the north-west of Moscow has a rather dry official name - a tunnel at the intersection of Narodnogo Opolcheniya Street and Berzarina Street. But among the people it is primarily known as a hard drive. As Andrei Abramov, deputy head of the Gormost-North section, explains, the tunnel is directly connected to the American gun.

“In 2013, the object began to be built on the principle of an American Winchester rifle. It has two barrels, one located above the other. Our tunnel is designed in the same way: its parts overlap each other for half the length from the side of the passage towards the Alabyano-Baltic Tunnel, and towards Marshal Zhukov Avenue, this is the most ordinary tunnel,” says Abramov.

The unusual design of the structure is not at all a whim of the designer, but a necessity dictated by the complete residential development of the area and the lack of opportunity to strengthen and expand the adjacent buildings. If the tunnel had been built in the classical form, then with the expansion of Narodnogo Opolcheniya Street the road would have run almost right next to the apartment buildings. The distance between the entrances and the roadway would be no more than six meters, whereas according to the standards, the length of the required “buffer” must be twice as wide.

As part of the construction of the tunnel, the number of traffic lanes on the streets of Berzarin and People's Militia was increased, and the traffic light, which regularly caused traffic jams, was removed. The tunnel is less than a kilometer long, but nevertheless has a high throughput capacity. The lower tunnel, 780 meters long, runs along the even side of Narodnogo Opolcheniya Street, while the upper tunnel, a little more than 540 meters long, runs along the odd side.

“Since part of the tunnel was left open, there were no particular difficulties during construction. To create it, special sections were cast, a kind of vertebrae of the structure. The only difficulty that the builders had to face was the flooding of the facility. There are many underground rivers here, for example, Tarakanovka, which was closed into a collector to prevent water from its inflows into the tunnel, they made high-quality waterproofing,” says Abramov.

More than it seems

The technical rooms of the Winchester tunnel occupy three floors; you can go down into them through a separate entrance right at the intersection of the upper and lower tracks. Access is strictly open to Gormost employees, who monitor the condition and cleanliness of their facility on a daily basis.

“According to the regulations, we regularly wash and clean the tunnel; if an emergency situation arises, we promptly eliminate the consequences. The State Budgetary Institution “Highways” is responsible for the quality of the roadway; we also interact with JSC “Mosvodokanal”; during incidents, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Data Center are involved in the work,” – Abramov lists.

At the upper level of the tunnel's technical premises, ventilation rooms are equipped and spare generators are stored in case of energy emergencies. The level below is the pumping room, and below it is a sump, a settling tank for collecting wastewater that enters the tunnel during rainfall.

The dungeon with concrete walls and gray water makes a truly gloomy impression, although it also ensures the safety of the structure and passing motorists. According to Abramov, all the water from the tunnel flows into this chamber, which is then cleared of debris and released into the underground sewers of Moscow.

"The Winchester tunnel is also equipped with a complex security system. For example, jet fans are installed here that operate in smoke removal mode. If the tunnel is at a sufficient depth, it is equipped with a gas analysis system. For example, if there are a lot of smoking cars in a traffic jam, a signal is given and the jets they are starting to blow through the tunnel,” explains Abramov.

Jet fans also operate during a fire, dispersing smoke from the fire area. This makes it easier for rescue crews to organize the evacuation of victims. There is no separate fire extinguishing system in the Winchester tunnel, as in the Alabyano-Baltic tunnel, since its length is quite small, and the design includes an open part.

“But there is a fire extinguishing system using water in the Alabyano-Baltiysky tunnel, since it is deeper and longer. It is worth remembering that not every fire can really be extinguished with water, especially if it is chemical. Therefore, at our facilities, extinguishing with water in emergency situations is used in primarily to lower the temperature at the facility,” says Abramov.

The Mystery of Sharik

The control room, from which Gormost employees monitor the situation at subordinate facilities in real time, is located near the Sokol metro station, in the same building with a glass dome, familiar to all Muscovites.

“In Gormost circles, we call him Sharik,” Abramov says with a smile. Initially, the building was built as a transborder for trams; according to the idea, they were supposed to drive inside and turn around. But with the development of transport infrastructure, trains became longer, and the idea was abandoned, so the company’s control room appeared in such a shocking place.

Most of the building is occupied by a control room with dozens of monitors. They broadcast images from tunnels, pedestrian crossings and sections of chords in the Gormosta area of ​​responsibility. According to Abramov, monitoring covers almost the entire north of Moscow: the Alabyano-Baltiysky tunnel, existing tunnels as part of the North-Western Expressway, the Mikhalkovsky and Winchester tunnels, and video surveillance of the constructed section of the North-Eastern Expressway has also been organized here.

“There are a lot of accidents in Moscow tunnels; motorists need to be very careful when driving in such areas. Just recently, our service car was standing in the Alabyano-Baltiysky tunnel with special lights on, cleaning the road in the right lane, and a reckless driver was rushing through the tunnel. As a result, After the accident, the car became half the size,” says Abramov.

The first two-story automobile tunnel in Moscow opened in the north-west of the metropolis. This is the most important part of the new chord route, which will connect eight highways. There will not be a single traffic light on the road between opposite ends of the capital.

Builders also call a tunnel of this type at the intersection of Berzarina and Narodnogo Opolcheniya streets a Winchester tunnel, because one thread passes under the other in a small area. Neither the driver nor the pedestrian observer will immediately notice this original solution. “Try to look deep into the structure,” the head of the Moscow division of Mostotrest, Valery Oshchepkov, reveals to RG the secret of the structure. “Do you see there is a small area inside that resembles a triangle? It’s right there that one road seems to dive under the other.” Indeed, it becomes noticeable that the levels of the highway are different - on the right, the descent underground is more gentle. The builders implemented such a project, of course, not out of love for engineering delights. The development in this area is very dense. Local residents say that many even wanted to sell their homes after learning about the construction of the tunnel. And if the road workers had erected it as usual, it would really have been a guard post. “If we had built a classic tunnel here, it would have been literally five meters to the nearest house,” Oshchepkov sums up. “But we have high-class specialists working for us. They understand that such reinforced concrete structures are still built according to the same principles - both conventional and hard drive. But working at this facility was much more interesting."

Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, opening the movement, thanked the bridge workers for both the quality and speed of work. And also assessed the effect for Muscovites-motorists. “The tunnel will significantly relieve congestion on the north-western roads of Moscow,” he noted. “We remember that Alabyan Street was recently expanded. The completion of this reconstruction, together with the launch of the tunnel, will seriously simplify traffic on the section of the North-Western Expressway from Leningradskoye Shosse to Marshal Zhukov Avenue.” The entire chord, Sobyanin is sure, will be completed within two years. And its already open sections have reduced tension on the roads of the Northern and Northwestern districts in some places by 30%. Environmentalists also note a significant reduction in exhaust gas emissions - after all, cars are no longer stuck in traffic jams for many hours.

By the way, the head of the city announced the completion of the construction of the overpass at the intersection of Volgogradsky Prospekt and Volzhsky Boulevard. This was one of the busiest destinations in the southeast of Moscow. With its launch, transport problems of more than 400 thousand residents of Tekstilshchiki, Zhulebin and other areas of the city will be solved, the mayor noted.

By the end of 2016, the first Winchester-type tunnel in the capital will appear at the intersection of Narodnogo Opolcheniya and Berzarina streets (North-Western Administrative District of Moscow). Its peculiarity is that the lanes for vehicle traffic are not located next to each other, but one above the other. Movement along them is carried out in opposite directions.

Winchester Tunnel. Photo: Shot from TVC channel

What are the advantages of the Winchester tunnel design?

The Winchester Tunnel makes it possible to move the route away from residential buildings as much as possible and increase the speed of vehicles. Thus, due to the construction of the Winchester tunnel in the North-Western Administrative District, Narodnogo Opolcheniya Street will pass at a distance of 14-15 meters from residential buildings, in the narrowest sections - 11 meters. If a conventional tunnel were built, the distance would be reduced to 6 m.

How will traffic on the site be organized?

The tunnel will have three lanes in each direction. Cars will move towards the Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station in the lower tunnel, 786 meters long, which will pass at a depth of 12.5 meters, and in the upper 542-meter tunnel, which will be located 10 meters from the surface of the earth, transport will move towards the Khoroshevo district -Mnevniki.