What minibuses go through. How are numbers assigned to public transport routes? Shuttle taxis and buses
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Not only the guests of the capital, but even the Muscovites themselves sometimes do not know what transport to use in order to make the trip as comfortable and as fast as possible. It provides readers with informative information about the types of land transport in Moscow.
In addition, information is given on what is the best way to get from one district of the capital to another.
About types of street public transport
It is worth listing all the types at once:
- trolleybus,
- bus,
- route taxi,
- monorail,
- tram,
- light metro,
- Moscow Central Circle (MCC).
As you can see, there are many options for traveling around Moscow. In addition, when buying a ticket with a large number of trips or if you have a Troika card (a special plastic card on which the required number of trips is recorded at the request of the user), you can travel by any type of Moscow surface transport. The exception is a fixed-route taxi, payment in which is carried out separately, regardless of the availability of benefits, travel tickets.
What is the best way to get there?
It is clear that there are many options, but there is a caveat: using a particular route may turn out to be either unprofitable, or it may take too long to travel. To prevent this from happening, it is advisable to study the features of each type of ground transport in Moscow.
trolleybus
A trolleybus is an electric vehicle that travels along roads along with cars and trucks, as well as buses and minibuses. It is most convenient to use it if the desired street or subway lies along the route of its movement.
Sometimes it is necessary to refuse it in the following cases: traffic jams and congestion on the roads, frequent breakdowns of current collectors (“horns”) from contact wires.
Bus
Buses go everywhere, replacing trolleybuses and trams. In addition, unlike these two modes of transport, it has more degrees of freedom. And this means that he can turn into another lane if there is an obstacle ahead. The largest number of ground routes belongs to buses.
Shuttle taxi
The most comfortable and fastest mode of transport. As a rule, minibus drivers strive to get to their destination as quickly as possible. In addition, there is always the opportunity to bypass the emergency section, traffic jam without difficulty.
Monorail
A monorail is an electromagnetic track laid along an overpass. On such a road, several small trailers slowly move at a speed of no more than 40 km / h.
The monorail, unlike the fixed-route taxi, is the slowest type of ground transport in Moscow. The only advantage is that you can look at the streets of the city from above, from a height of about the third floor of a residential building.
Tram
Another type of ground which, like a trolleybus, is powered by electricity. But it moves along the railway tracks laid along the streets of the city. They are good to use if there is no alternative. In addition, in some areas they are laid separately from the highway, which allows you to avoid traffic jams and get there faster.
Light metro
It belongs to the Moscow metro, but unlike it, it runs on the surface, and not underground. Light metro is available to residents of the Northern and Southern Butovo districts.
MCC
The Moscow Central Ring is a railway that has a radius of half the radius of Moscow from the center to the Moscow Ring Road. Looks like suburban traffic. In addition, it is the property of Russian Railways. It is good to move around the MCC if you need to get from one extreme district of the capital to another.
Below is an approximate map of Moscow land transport.
We wish you a successful trip and the lowest costs when moving around the city!
You can also lay the route manually, armed with a map, pencil and ruler. But if you ended up on the route planner page, then another, often more convenient option is possible - laying a route online, one of which is offered to you on our site.
There are two types of routing: manual and automatic.
- With manual laying, you put on the map a series of points that form an arbitrary route.
- With automatic compilation, you need to specify the start and end points, and our service will lay the best route by itself, calculating the shortest path, taking into account traffic rules and the traffic situation at the moment.
On the compiled route, you will see all the roads and nearby intersections, which will be very useful for motorists and travelers. A map with a route in the city of Moscow will allow you to plan a route and will not let you get lost in an unfamiliar place.
To make a route on the map of the city of Moscow, enter the starting point in the first field of the form below and the end point in the second field. Then specify how you will travel to the final destination by clicking on the appropriate button - "Car", "Walking" or Public transport". After that, click on the "Show route" button.
For several years, a picture-meme has been circulating on the Internet - emotional obscene impressions of a provincial from Moscow. Among them there is also the phrase: “Bus 483, don’t give a damn!” The logic of urban transport numbering is, indeed, not always obvious. The Village found out by what principle numbers are assigned to buses, trolleybuses and trams.
Press Service of State Unitary Enterprise "Mosgortrans"
All routes of urban passenger transport of the capital have one-digit, two-digit and three-digit numbers. This numbering has developed historically and does not change. On new directions, transport is assigned new numbers or numbers of previously canceled routes. All numbering is individual, but there are also coincidences: the routes of different modes of transport can be marked in the same way. So, tram number 3, trolleybus number 3 and bus number 3 travel around the city, but they all follow different routes.
There is no need to assign four-digit numbers to new routes yet. There are, however, bus routes No. 1001, 1002 and 1004, which previously belonged to commercial carriers. In 2013, they were transferred under the management of Mosgortrans, for the convenience of passengers, the numbers were not changed.
Sometimes the numbering takes into account the specifics of a particular route. For example, in Moscow there are several "social" areas of movement, they cover educational institutions, medicine, social protection. The numbers of such routes begin with the letter C: C1, C2, and so on. There are also night routes of ground urban transport, these are buses No. H1, H2, H3. Letters are also used for shortened flights: they duplicate the busiest sections of the route. To make it easier for passengers to navigate, when entering such a route, the letter “k” (short) is added to the main number. There is, for example, bus route No. 709, following from the Orekhovo metro station to the Kashirskaya metro station, and there is No. 709k, which goes from the Orekhovo metro station to the Moskvorechye platform.
Konstantin Trofimenko
Director, Center for Research on Transport Problems in Megacities, Higher School of Economics
There is no special numbering system for transport in Moscow - it is a wild mixture between hundred-year-old route numbers, Stalinist, Brezhnev and numbers from the 1990s. They all piled on top of each other.
There are also routes that use letters in their designation. This may be due to the fact that once the transport route was divided into two parts. It also happens that the route forks: the transport follows the route, and then its version, to the numbering of which the letter A is added, turns right. The variant without such a letter continues to follow straight ahead. All this, of course, causes confusion. City navigation is absolutely not user-friendly. If a person does not specialize in this topic, he is unlikely to know about any routes other than those that he needs.
In Soviet times, work was regularly carried out to optimize the urban transport system. In the 90s, they stopped doing this, and now attempts are being resumed. Last year, not only the problem of transport numbering was raised, but also the question of the need for certain routes. It happens that they lose their relevance: for example, there was a bus that took people to the factory. The enterprise was closed, and people stopped going there, but the route continues to function. Does the city need it? But, unfortunately, so far these works have not led to a positive result.
Illustration: Nastya Grigorieva
Search and create public transport routes that are optimal for you FROM your location and TO the desired street or house, as well as car, bicycle and walking routes for walking.
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Asking how you can get there or how to get to a certain street or house in Moscow? We answer - it's very simple, find your best route around the city using the trip planner on our website. Our service will find for you up to 3 options for getting around the city of Moscow FROM your address and TO your destination. On the map with routes, click the details button (the start icon) and proceed to a detailed description of the travel options. For all routes, travel time will be shown, taking into account traffic jams, numbers of buses, minibuses and other public transport.
Popular routes:
- FROM: Moscow, Ryazansky Prospekt metro station - TO: Moscow, 1st Novokuzminskaya street 19;
- FROM: Moscow, Yakhromskaya street, 4 - TO: Moscow, street of the 800th anniversary of Moscow, 16;
- FROM: Moscow, Michurin street - TO: Moscow, Aviaconstructor Mikoyan street;
- FROM: Moscow, Biryulevskaya street - TO: Moscow, Akademika Millionshchikov street, 1;
- FROM: Moscow, Minskaya 2b - TO: Moscow, Akademika Pilyugina street, 18k1;
Users of our site often ask, for example: "How to get from the bus station to the hospital?" and so on. We decided to facilitate the search for the best route for everyone in need.
Driving along a pre-planned route is a way to eliminate the problems that may arise in unfamiliar terrain and get over the desired section of the road as quickly as possible. Do not miss the details, specify in advance on the map the direction of movement along the road and turns.
With the help of the trip planning service, you just need to enter the beginning and end of the route, then click the "Show route on the map" button and you will receive several route options. Choose the one that suits you best and start moving. There are four modes of route preparation - by city public transport (including fixed-route taxis), by car, by bicycle or on foot.
