From Balaklava to Proletarian Avenue. An overpass has opened at the intersection of Warsaw Highway and Balaklavsky Prospekt

The Russian capital is becoming more convenient for motorists. Yes, at the intersection Warsaw highway and Balaklavsky Avenue, an overpass was erected. The construction department noted that traffic along it will open in September.

It is reported that the construction of the overpass is one of the stages of the construction project Southern Rockada. Within its framework, a road from Balaklavsky to Proletarsky Prospekt, two and a half kilometers long, will be built, as well as side passages and exits from the Varshavskoye Highway. The new transport facility will connect Varshavskoye and Kashirskoye highways and redistribute traffic flows.

Traffic on the overpass at the intersection of Warsaw Highway and Balaklavsky Prospekt will open in September, said First Deputy Head of the Moscow Construction Department Pyotr Aksenov.

According to him, the overpass will provide transit traffic along Varshavka at the intersection with Balaklavsky Avenue, connect Varshavskoye and Kashirskoye highways and redistribute traffic flows. This will relieve congestion on Proletarsky Prospekt, Kashirskoye and Varshavskoye highways.

"The overpass is the second stage of the construction of the Southern Road, which includes the construction of a 2.5 km long road from Balaklavsky to Proletarsky Prospekt, side passages and exits from the Warsaw Highway, underground and overground pedestrian crossings. The first stage involves the construction of a 57-meter overpass through the Paveletskoye direction of the Moscow railway", noted P. Aksenov.

As the Department of Construction clarified, in 2018-2020 construction southern section The rockades will continue. They will reconstruct the section from Kantemirovskaya to Kaspiyskaya, Donetskaya streets and Verkhnie Polya streets, and build an overpass across the Moscow River to the street. Shosseynaya and reconstruct the street. Baltiyskaya, which will go to the street. Lipetskaya.

Let us remind you that the Southern Road will connect the western, southern and south-eastern districts of the capital. The expressway will run from the Moscow Ring Road through Rublevskoye Shosse, Balaklavsky Prospekt, Varshavskoye Shosse and Kantemirovskaya Street to Kashirskoye Shosse and further to Borisovskie Prudy Street.

Traffic on the overpass at the intersection of Warsaw Highway and Balaklava Avenue will open next month. Deputy Head of the Moscow Construction Department Pyotr Aksenov told reporters about this.

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Work on the construction of the overpass is approximately 90% complete.

The new overpass on the Warsaw highway will be opened in September, reports “ RIAMO”.

It is noted that the construction of the overpass is currently approximately 90% complete.

As specified in the message, the construction of the overpass is being carried out as part of a project that makes it possible to connect Varshavskoye and Kashirskoye highways and relieve congestion on Proletarsky Avenue, Kashirskoye and Varshavskoye highways.

Movement on new overpass at the intersection of Warsaw Highway and Balaklavsky Prospekt will be launched in September, reports the official portal of the mayor and government of Moscow.
The new 790-meter overpass will make it possible to organize traffic without traffic lights on this section of the Warsaw Highway. The overpass has three lanes in each direction; passages are organized that allow drivers to get to Balaklavsky Avenue or drive from Balaklavsky Avenue to Varshavskoe Highway. For the convenience of pedestrians, pedestrian crossings have been installed across the passages. As part of the construction, noise-proof windows were installed in neighboring houses.
In addition to the automobile overpass, a railway overpass for trains of the Paveletsky direction of the Moscow Railway.

. . . . . , said First Deputy Head of the Moscow Construction Department Pyotr Aksenov.
. . . . . The first stage of construction of the Southern Rockade involves the construction railway overpass along the Paveletsky direction of the Moscow Railway, 57 meters long.
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In addition, in 2018-2020 construction at the southern section “South Rockada” will continue and will include reconstruction from Kantemirovskaya Street to Kaspiyskaya, reconstruction of Donetskaya Street, Verkhnie Polye, construction of an overpass across the Moscow River on Shosseynaya Street and reconstruction of Baltiyskaya Street, which will go to Lipetskaya.
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The opening of the overpass of the main route of the Warsaw Highway, which is part of the section of the southern road connecting Balaklava and Proletarsky Avenues, is scheduled for September 2017, the Agency reports. Moscow " with reference to the First Deputy Head of the Moscow Construction Department Pyotr Aksenov.
According to him, the construction of 6 kilometers of the road, 850 meters of the overpass are currently being completed, and two pedestrian crossings have been created.
“The main work has been completed, there is more mechanization here: the delivery of sand, laying. . . . . .
It also became known that due to the imminent completion of work at the site, the number of workers on the construction of the overpass has been significantly reduced: for example, from 300 to 400 people are involved daily. The cost of the first stage of construction is 5 billion 5 million rubles, the second stage - 1 billion 700 million rubles.

Road construction in Russian capital doesn't stop for a day. And, despite the fact that sometimes it seems that all the reserves are for improvement transport situation are already close to exhaustion, city authorities, designers and builders manage to find new solutions to make life easier for motorists and passengers public transport. 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 did not end up 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 host the North-Eastern the 35-kilometer-long chord will run from the new M11 Moscow-St. Petersburg highway to Kosinskaya overpass- junctions 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 Shchelkovskoe 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 Dmitrovskoe highway.

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, Volokolamsk highway 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 North-East Expressway and through the Businovskaya interchange gained access to new track 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.

Finish everything construction work on the North-Western Expressway and the entire highway is planned to be launched 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. Launching a new movement highways 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 ring. 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 further to toll road Moscow – St. Petersburg. The southern road will intersect with North-Western Expressway in the Krylatskoye area.

Design two sections of the Southern Rokada may begin before the end of 2017., reported the press service of the capital’s construction department, citing the head of the department, Andrei Bochkarev.

“Currently, urban planning documentation is being developed for two sections of the Southern Rokada; the design may start before the end of the year. It's about about the highway from Proletarsky Prospekt to st. Donetskaya, and from st. Verkhnie Polya to MKAD“, - the words of A. Bochkarev are quoted in the message.

As stated in the press service, Southern road from Proletarsky Prospekt to st. Donetsk region is divided into four sections. On the section from Proletarsky Prospekt to st. Kaspiyskaya plans to build 2 km of roads, including an overpass with a length of 0.3 km. A section from the street will be built. Kantemirovskaya to st. Bakinskaya, which will provide exit from Proletarsky Prospekt to st. Baku without the need to go to Caucasian Boulevard. It is planned to build 1.5 km of roads. On the site from the street. Kaspiyskaya to st. Shosseynaya plans to build more than 8 km of roads, including an overpass on the approach to the bridge, 1.97 km long with eight lanes, six ramp overpasses, total length 1.02 km, bridge crossing.

“As part of the construction of the highway along the street. In Donetsk, reconstruction and construction of 3 km of road are planned. On the site from the street. Maryinsky Park to the Moscow Ring Road is planned for reconstruction and construction of 4 km of roads,” the press service noted.

A. Bochkarev added that on September 10, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin opened traffic on the new direct overpass on Varshavskoe Highway, which was built under the project for the construction of the Southern Road. “The highway connecting Balaklava and Proletarsky Avenues will be completed in 2018, and will provide a direct connection between Balaklava Highway and Proletarsky Avenue. The mayor of Moscow set a task at an accelerated pace build chord highways in the city,” he concluded.

The head of the Construction Department, Andrei Bochkarev, is known in narrow circles as an urban planning freak; he has been caught more than once in the confusion of streets, objects, plans, and sequences, but nevertheless, what do his words say?

1. They are going to extend the southern road from Proletarsky Prospekt along Kantemirovskaya and further to Kaspiyskaya street. Donetskaya, and from st. Verkhnie Polya to MKAD. This new route UR to MKAD, moreover, going through the center of the Maryino district.

In the light of such a decision, it should appear new bridge across the Moscow River from Kantemirovskaya to Donetskaya, duplicating the projected bridge, which will entail the massive demolition of garages in Saburovo. This bridge laid down in the red lines and the General Plan of Moscow.

On the website of the Moscow City Complex, a picture was published to accompany the news about the opening of the overpass on the Warsaw Highway, which was presented to Sobyanin. Clickable to enlarge. Crossing the river here is the same bridge being designed . with an exit to Donetskaya.

It turns out that the exit along the road from Kantemirovskaya will run into best case scenario into the two-lane Caspian on the bridge, with steep radii and under the traffic lights.

In this form, we can talk about a new transport corridor, but not about Rokada, as it was stated. Rokada will reach Proletarsky, and then regional roads and connections.

Let me remind you that previously the continuation of the UR was planned in the section Katemirovskaya - st. Borisov Ponds - bridge - st. Kapotnya - MKAD. Apparently such a solution is expensive and time-consuming, but we need to show quick victories.

Extension of the UR along Kantemirovskaya will require widening the street to 6 lanes (or maybe 4 will be enough), removal of power lines, massive demolition of garages and parking lots on the even side of Moskvorechye, odd side of Tsaritsyno, will lead to deterioration walking distance between MS and Tsaritsyno, pedestrian crossings, I believe, will be designed with lifts and in smaller numbers than exist now.

2. It is not clear what YR has to do with it, but Bochkarev also mentions the straightening of Proletarsky to Baku Street. This solution is also included in the General Plan of the city. However, it will be impossible to carry it out without relocating five-story buildings.

The announced projects have not yet been included in the Targeted Investment Program (TIP), so it is not clear when they will start.

According to my forecast, the development of these areas should be expected in 5-6 years, and not earlier. But they seriously will affect normal life in the area. If the transport component improves, then living conditions cannot be expected to improve.

We continue to watch.

UPD. The post has been revised after receiving new data.

It's finished! On October 20, 2015, the Construction Department signed a contract for the construction of a 2-kilometer section of the Southern Road from Balaklavsky to Proletarsky Avenue. The contract amount is 5 billion rubles, the road will be built by OJSC Moscow Engineering and Construction Company. According to the contract, 19.5 months are allotted for this: they plan to launch traffic in August 2017. Now construction sites are being prepared and the territory is being cleared.

Let's talk about the past, present and possible future of this road. A series of 3 articles will be devoted to it: the first will be about Moscow expressways in general and the background of the Southern Road, the second will be devoted to an analysis of the project, and the third will be devoted to the additional measures that need to be implemented to maximize the transport effect of the new road.

What is the Southern Rockade and why is it needed?
The Southern Road, also known as the South-Western Expressway, is a through city highway, which the future will pass from the prestigious Rublyovka to the working Kapotnya, connecting the western, southern and southeastern districts of the capital.

The 23 km long section from Rublevskoye to Varshavskoye highway has existed for a long time. Now the road will be extended another 2 km to Proletarsky Prospekt. Neither Kantemirovskaya Street east of Proletarsky Prospect, nor Borisovskie Ponds Street will be touched for now.

Why are chords needed?
Someday there will be 4 main chord roads in the capital: North-Western, North-Eastern, South-Western (also known as South Rokada) and South-East. So far, only the first three are being built.

The transport task of chords is more than important. They will become an alternative to the Third Ring and the Moscow Ring Road when traveling around the periphery of the city, will reduce overmileage, relieve congestion on sections of radial highways, and directly connect all Moscow districts. This will improve transport accessibility“dormitory” areas will create conditions for the transfer of jobs to them and will help attract investment in the development of these territories. As a result, Moscow will get rid of the hyper-concentration of jobs within Sadovoye and from the insane “pendulum” load on transport system. Read more about this in materials and.

By the way, the capital’s authorities are increasing transport accessibility and connectivity of the territory between the Moscow Ring Road and the Third Transport Ring Road not only for motorists, but also for public transport passengers. And we’re not just talking about future NOT routes on chords: in the coming years, Moscow will have two intersecting rings of high-speed off-street transport. The Moscow Ring Railway, which extends to the north, is now being converted into an “overground metro”; traffic should open at the end of 2016. And the Third Interchange Circuit of the metro, shifted to the south, will be closed after 2020.

But let's return to the Southern Rockade.

Why is the section from Warsaw Highway to Proletarsky Prospekt especially needed?
Because between the Moscow Ring Road and Kolomensky Proezd there is not a single crossing over the Paveletskaya railway for 10 km! And if you don’t have a helicopter at hand, you can overcome the unfortunate 2 kilometers by driving either 8 or 21 km - in the first case, the mileage is 4 times, in the second a fantastic 10 times! This topology road network creates a wild load on Varshavskoye and Kashirskoye highways, Lipetskaya street, a section of the Moscow Ring Road and Kolomensky passage.

Why wasn't this road built a long time ago?
It’s not for nothing that the Southern Rockade is considered the most long-awaited in Southern district Moscow. Her story is full of mysteries and misadventures. Take, for example, the fact that the current project is already the third “approach to the projectile.”

At the beginning of the 20th century, there were 2 ground crossings across the Paveletskaya railway on the southern outskirts of Moscow: in the area of ​​Starokashirskoe highway and 2nd Varshavsky Proezd. Why were they closed for safety?

The corridor for the construction of the Southern Road was included in all Soviet General Plans, but construction never came to fruition. The first promise to build the Southern Road was made by Yuri Luzhkov. Few people remember, but in 1994 he ran for mayor with the promise to certainly build a road from Balaklavsky to Kantemirovskaya. Alas, having taken office, Yuri Mikhailovich conveniently forgot about the promise, being carried away by more global construction projects.

In 2000, at the Moscow Urban Planning Council, in the presence of the mayor, a decision was made to build the road “in the near future.” The object was even included in the plan of priority construction activities until 2005. To the considerable surprise of citizens, by 2005, at the intersection of Warsaw and Balaklavskoe highways, ... the Airbus shopping center was erected, but the road was never built.

We returned to the project only in 2007. But they did it stupidly: instead of first of all designing and building the most required area in the industrial zone between Warsaw Highway and Proletarsky Prospekt, the mayor’s office decided to start with the much less effective connection Kantemirovskaya Street - Borisovskie Ponds, expanding half of Kantemirovskaya Street by 3 times, and opening the road to the side under the second half Borisov Ponds in a deep tunnel under Kashirskoye Highway.

The first version of the Southern Rockada project (2008) is clickable.

This strange decision was justified as follows: “in connection with the completion of the excavation of the Serebryanobor tunnels and in order to create conditions for further effective use a unique tunnel boring complex.” Translating into Russian “to stick the Elizaveta tunneling shield somewhere.” Needless to say, such a decision, coupled with the planned mega-interchange with Proletarsky Prospekt, increased construction costs many times over, and the lack of connection with Kashirskoe Highway due to deep excavation would have killed all local streets. These and other blunders and shortcomings caused serious objections from residents on both sides Kashirskoe highway, who even made a special website for coordinating actions, and in 2008-2009, 2,300 signatures were collected for updating the project.

However, that project was finally finished off by the 2009 crisis. Expenses for road construction was cut in half, and the remainder was used to complete construction that had already begun. The Southern Rockada project was sent for revision.

The second version of the project started under Sobyanin in 2011. This time the site (from Balaklavsky Avenue to Kantemirovskaya Street) was immediately chosen correctly. But the project, which was already completed and approved in 2012, was never implemented: the already announced construction competition was postponed several times and was eventually canceled altogether.

Sketch of the planning project (2012): Southern road from Balaklavsky Avenue to Proletarsky Avenue


Old traffic management project (2012): section of South Rokada from Balaklavsky Avenue to 1st Kotlyakovsky Lane

The exact reasons for the cancellation of the competition are unknown. but perhaps it’s due to the high cost: due to the three-level interchange between Warsaw and Balaklava (overpass, tunnel and ground section), the project cost more than 10 billion! In addition, that project was strangely divided into sections: the first reached only the narrow 1st Kotlyakovsky Lane, and the second, with a strange roundabout, which received the nickname “Kantemirovsky Egg” from residents, was never designed.

Be that as it may, at the end of 2013 the design began again, and in mid-2015 the project was finally approved. In September 2015, a competition for construction was held, and in October a contract for construction until August 2017 was signed.

How will traffic be organized on the future section of the Southern Road?
The fully approved and handed over to the builders traffic management project (TRAP) looks like this.


We'll look at it in more detail in the next part.

What will happen to garages and window replacement?
Several hundred garages and other real estate will be demolished during construction. The construction estimate provides 340 million rubles for compensation to owners. If you are afraid that your property will be demolished, go here or here. On average, 188 thousand rubles are provided for compensation for each garage.

As usually happens when large construction sites, residents of nearby houses will have their windows replaced by installing double-glazed windows with noise-proof valves for effective sound insulation in ventilation mode. In total, more than 1,880 windows need to be replaced.

Why does the competition say “stage 2” and what about stage 1?


The title of the construction project in the competition is called “The section of the Southern Rokada from Balaklava Avenue to Proletarsky Avenue (stage 2).” It includes everything on the diagram, except... the future overpass for the Paveletskaya railway, under which the road will pass! The fact is that the territory of the railway is federal, not Moscow, land, and the project for it should be approved not by the capital’s Moscow State Expertise, but by the federal Main State Expertise. That is why the project of this overpass was allocated to “Stage 1”. It is currently under examination, and as soon as it is approved, it will be drawn as a separate lot worth approximately 1 billion rubles. It is planned that this will happen in the near future, which will allow both stages to be built simultaneously and the entire road to be completed by the scheduled date, August 2017.

For those interested, below is the spoiler schedule for stage 2.



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Thanks to the Roads.ru forum for the project materials.