Two large objects of the capital's road transport infrastructure opened today, September 9, for Moscow motorists. This is the Volokolamsk overpass, passing through the MCC railway tracks, and an interchange on the Leningradskoye Shosse. The results of their reconstruction were assessed by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
According to the mayor, Volokolamsk overpass will greatly alleviate the situation on the highway of the same name. It was once considered one of the most traffic-congested places in Moscow. In addition, as Sobyanin noted, average speed Traffic flow will increase due to the opening of the overpass.
As for the interchange on Leningradka, its length is now more than 40 kilometers. Sobyanin also said that the roadway of the highway section was expanded to 4 lanes in each direction.
“Today we are handing over two important objects. The first object is the overpass on Volokolamka. Even two overpasses - a tram overpass and automobile overpass on Volokolamka, which increased the number of lanes from six to ten. Of course this will improve difficult situation, which is on Volokolamka. And the second facility is 41 km of the Leningradskoye Highway, where an interchange is being launched,” Sobyanin said.
He noted that in fact, in Moscow, the program for reconstructing overpasses, which was necessary for organizing passenger traffic along the MCC, has been completed. In just 3 years, 6 outdated narrow overpasses were replaced with modern overpasses.
According to the mayor, the opening of the interchange will improve transport accessibility near Zelenograd.
“Now a tunnel has been made, an interchange. So traffic there will also improve. I congratulate the residents of Zelenograd on the upcoming City Day and on the facility that we handed over. Thanks to the builders!” Sobyanin added.
As First Deputy Head of the Moscow Construction Department Pyotr Aksenov told reporters, the capacity of the Volokolamsk Highway will increase by 30% with the opening of the Volokolamsk overpass.
“According to our estimates, it is 25%, even up to 30%. We made such an analytical assessment taking into account the expansions and contractions of the turn,” Aksenov said.
“Now we have completed the entire length, both on the reconstructed sections of the Volokolamsk highway towards the region, and the reconstruction of the Volokolamsk highway towards Moscow. Here on the overpass we have made dedicated lanes for public transport", Aksenov clarified.
Work on the reconstruction of the Volokolamsk highway overpass began in January 2015. The length of the overpass is 434 m, of which 260.4 m are in retaining walls, the span is 173.6 m. As part of the project, a complete replacement of the overpass structures was carried out with an increase in dimensions to 6, 9 m for train movement on the MCC. As a result of the reconstruction, the number of vehicle lanes along the overpass increased from six to 10 - five lanes in each direction.
The interchange at 41 km of Leningradskoye Shosse will make it possible to remove the traffic light and speed up traffic at the intersection of Leningradskoye Shosse and Panfilovsky Prospekt. As part of the project, a tunnel under the Leningradskoye Highway, about 80 m long, with two lanes in each direction, an underground pedestrian crossing, and a reconstruction of the crossing across Panfilovsky Prospekt were built. The main roadway of Leningradskoe Highway was expanded to four lanes in each direction.
Repair of the overpass caused huge traffic jams
“Inconveniences are temporary, benefits are forever!” - says the light green poster, which has been hanging on the fence for several months now at the intersection of Volokolamsk Highway and the Small Ring of the Moscow Railway. However, thousands of public transport passengers and motorists have already become accustomed to the “temporary” inconveniences. But they did not expect that their torment would worsen. On April 18, the exit from the highway to Konstantin Tsarev Street (when traveling to the region) was closed for reconstruction. Now, at least until mid-summer, it will be impossible to turn onto the neighboring Leningradskoe Highway.
Due to the narrowing of the road, one and a half kilometers from home to the Tushinskaya metro station have to be covered in an hour, or even longer,” he complained to a “MK” correspondent. local resident Michael. - And the most annoying thing is that you can’t get there on foot - there are no pedestrian paths.
Instead of an exit at the intersection of Volokolamka and Konstantin Tsarev Street, construction is now in full swing. Three heavy excavators dig into the ground, moving tons of earth per shift, and trucks remove knocked down concrete curbs and pieces of removed asphalt.
To the local grocery store, located in an extension to the ground floor of a residential building, people walk along the wall past migrant workers cutting into the asphalt crust.
It’s noisy, of course, you won’t be able to sleep during the day,” complains a pensioner as she leaves the store. Her words are almost inaudible due to the roar of construction equipment. - What will happen here?
Some of the workers are scurrying around in dug holes, hastily installing underground communications. A backhoe loader on four wheels is delicately digging a trench 30 cm from an oriental restaurant. The cafe administrator stands nearby and phlegmatically watches the action.
What else remains? - he says under his breath and lights a cigarette. - There are still almost no visitors.
It's the same story with the bar in the next house. “As luck would have it, the reconstruction was started at the height of the season,” the manager complains. “We no longer know how to attract guests.” The first floor of the house in which the bar is located is covered with huge advertising leaflets, which are clearly visible from the roadway of Volokolamsk Highway. True, this is of little use - you still won’t be able to turn to the establishment.
According to the city Construction Department, “work is being carried out as part of the third stage of reconstruction of Volokolamsk Highway in the section from Pekhotnaya Street to Leningradskoe Highway.” At the intersection of Volokolamka and Tsarev Street, builders are erecting an overpass over by rail and the 172-meter-long ramp itself is being reconstructed. Workers are also reconstructing road and tram overpasses and two underground pedestrian crossings. After all the work is completed, which is scheduled for the end of this year, the number of transport lanes on the site will increase from six to ten, including one dedicated lane in each direction for public transport.
Large-scale construction work are being carried out to launch passenger traffic on the Small Ring of the Moscow Railway. To do this, it is necessary to reconstruct six road bridges across the railway in the capital. “The Volokolamsk overpass is the fourth and most complex,” said First Deputy Head of the Moscow Construction Department Pyotr Aksenov. - He pulls behind him huge amount communications: and relocation of the heating network, and water supply, and sewerage. The overpass itself rises almost a meter in order to hang the contact network. If our average project costs 1.8 billion, then this one costs almost 5 billion rubles.”
EXPERT OPINION
What awaits Volokolamka in Krasnogorsk July 7th, 2016
This year, based on proposals from Probok.net, Mosavtodor will optimize traffic on the Volokolamsk Highway in Krasnogorsk. As a result, the number of lanes at seven problematic intersections will increase, and traffic will become faster, safer and more convenient.
Why is this necessary? Many people call Krasnogorsk Krasnoprobsk. This offensive name, unfortunately, is justified for now: Volokolamskoye and Ilyinskoye highways have long been unable to cope with the flow of traffic. Besides Volokolamsk highway there’s no way to get around: he doesn’t have normal “chord” transport connections either with Pyatnitsky or with Novorizhskoe highway from the “small concrete road” to Ilyinsky and Penyaginsky.
We already helped solve the problem of the busiest junction - the intersection of Ilinskoye, Volokolamskoye and Penyaginskoye highways - in 2013-2015. By markings and signs, by adjusting traffic lights, everything possible was squeezed out of Volokolamsk (read -,). Even more has been done on Ilyinskoe Highway, with markings (/) and, and another one is being implemented now.
Now the problem is being solved radically - by the construction of the long-awaited interchange, which will take place in 3 stages (launch complex)
Construction of the 1st interchange launch complex began in 2016 and should be completed in 2018. As part of this project, the first half of the overpass across the Rizhskaya railway with ramps to it, the bed of the Banka River will be straightened. 
In the 2nd launch complex, a second overpass of the main passage through the railway will be built Riga direction on Volokolamskoye Highway, an overpass from the main road to Ilinskoye Highway, a bridge over the Banka River. 
In the 3rd launch complex, a turning overpass will be built over the Volokolamsk highway opposite the Pavshinskaya floodplain and approaches to it. 
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It would seem that this is the main solution to the problem of traffic jams! But it's not that simple. If you look closely at the daily traffic jam map, you will clearly see that an equally problematic junction of the Volokolamsk Highway is the intersection with Rechnaya Street. And in the evening the flow is “held” by all the intersections further in the city - with Mayakovsky Street, People's Militia, Karbysheva, Gorozhankin Brothers. Since Volokolamka in the Rechnaya alignment does not release normal flow towards Ilyinsky in the morning and does not accept it in the evening even now, is it ready to fill the overpass towards Moscow with traffic in the morning and receive flow from the overpass in the evening? The answer is obvious: of course not. Moreover, during the construction of the overpass the problem will not be solved: the reconstruction boundary ends at railway crossing before reaching River Street.
How to solve the problem? Surely many will propose to expand the Volokolamsk Highway along its entire length by a couple of lanes or even build an overpass. Such a pleasure would cost another billions of rubles, would take several years... and would probably encounter protests from residents dissatisfied with the approach of the road to their houses.
Fortunately, all this is not required. At almost all intersections (except for the intersection with Vilora Trifonova Street), the width of the roadway allows us to add re-marking of the Volokolamsk Highway from 4 lanes to 5, as was the case last year! This allows all left turns to be placed in their own pockets, some existing pockets to be extended, and the trajectory to be made as convenient as possible. Due to this, those traveling straight will not only have 2 rows at their complete disposal, but will also be able to avoid changing lanes.
This is what this method looks like in the diagram... 
And so it is in life. By the way, this is an intersection on the neighboring Ilinskoye Highway 
Probok.net, on my instructions, prepared projects for changing road markings and signs at 6 intersections of the Volokolamsk highway - with the streets of Zhukovsky, Mayakovsky, Narodnogo Opolcheniya, Kirov and Brothers Gorozhankin, Karbysheva and Svetlaya.
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Volokolamsk - Kirov and the Gorozhankin Brothers
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When will everything be implemented? All these measures are approved by Mosavtodor and the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, and should be completed in 2016! At some intersections, the markings will be applied on new asphalt, which has just been changed; at others, they will be demarked and re-painted.
What will change at the main, most problematic intersection with Rechnaya Street? Here you won’t be able to get by with markings alone. To extend this unit, you need to organize a passage of 3 lanes in each direction, and for this you will have to “cut” all the traffic islands and move a couple of traffic light consoles. In addition, for a normal accumulation zone, the roadway in front of the intersection will need to be slightly widened on each side.
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The scale of changes and the cost are greater here, and the implementation time is correspondingly longer. But we will ask GUDH and Mosavtodor to sort out this issue in 2016, because only when the bottleneck It will be possible to obtain a comprehensive effect from all other activities.
That's not all! When all this is implemented, we will check the operation of the traffic lights and try to synchronize their programs for better performance.
Expected effect: after the implementation of these 7 measures, the capacity of the Volokolamsk Highway will increase by approximately 30-40% in each direction. This will not only solve the current problems, but will also prepare the highway for traffic from the interchange. The effect in the direction of the region will be felt already this year, in the direction of Ilyinsky - after the expansion of the Volokolamsk highway to 3 lanes according to the project.
We have several more such complex projects on roads in the Moscow region; State Road Administration and Mosavtodor have taken them into priority implementation. I’ll try to please you with great news in 2016, stay tuned!
