Map of new bus routes. How does the new Moscow transport system “Magistral. What problems remain unresolved

In October, a new network of ground transport "Magistral" is launched in Moscow.
New routes of buses, trolleybuses and trams pass through the center of Moscow and the main transport routes.
In this article, we will explain why such a network is needed, who it will help and how to use it.

Why change something?
In general, to make public transport in Moscow better meet the needs of passengers. Specifically, this network of routes is to make it easier for passengers to move around in the center.

We want to make it convenient for passengers to make their daily trips around Moscow, relying entirely on surface public transport. For example, so that you can come from your area to the center on business, move to another part of the center to meet friends in a cafe, then return home - all using ground transportation.

To do this, transport must go quickly and often, be roomy and convenient, and most importantly, travel where passengers need. The launch of the Magistral route network is one of the steps towards this goal.

What is changing?
To make transport in the center more convenient, we are launching three types of routes: trunk, regional and social.

Trunk routes are the main and longest. They connect several districts of Moscow at once with the center and among themselves, for example, Leninsky with Leningradsky Prospekt, Luzhniki and Semenovskaya, Nagatinskaya and Polezhaevskaya. These routes are marked with a thick line on the new map. The interval of movement is 5 - 10 minutes. These are the fastest and most frequent routes on the network.

District routes are shorter: they connect districts with the center. They are easy to get to the main route or take a short trip. The interval of movement is 10 - 15 minutes.

Social routes help Moscow residents get to My Documents centers, polyclinics, multifunctional centers and other socially significant places. The interval of movement is up to 30 minutes.

The approach to the traffic schedule has also changed: transport is switching to a clock schedule. Passengers will know, for example, that at peak times the main bus from Tverskaya Street to Leninsky Prospekt runs every eight minutes. And if a person came to a stop, and the bus door closed in front of him, then in eight minutes the next one will arrive.

The clock schedule is similar to the metro schedule: passengers do not have to know it, although it is. You just come to the bus stop and wait for the next bus for a short time.

What happened to routes?
We made popular routes in the center mainlines and straightened them to increase speed and reduce intervals. For example, trolleybus No. 62 from Udarnik to Tyoply Stan is now called M4, this is a main route with a traffic interval every four minutes.

For the next few months, vehicles will run on routes with two numbers - new and old. It will also be possible to see how the routes have been renamed on any transport scheme in the center.

In parallel, we are improving the traffic patterns of cars and land transport so that they do not interfere with each other.

We also straightened out some of the old routes: if before they had to make loops and move along one-way streets, now nothing prevents them from walking along the same street in both directions. This makes it easier to remember routes and find the stops you need. For example, earlier bus number 6 went one way along Vozdvizhenka, and in the opposite direction - along Gogol Boulevard. Between these streets is almost a kilometer on foot. And now the M6 route goes in both directions along the same streets. Direct routes are easier to remember and easier to follow.

In the area of Dolgorukovskaya and Barrikadnaya streets, there is now through traffic through the Garden Ring. Previously, buses lost 15–20 minutes to leave Sadovoe Street, turn around, drive back and continue along the route. Now this detour is not needed, the buses go straight.

What about night routes?

As part of the Highway, two express trains change: No. 144 and 904. Both depart from Kitay-Gorod, pass through Okhotny Ryad, Theater Square and Lubyanka. Further, the 144th express turns left and goes along Leninsky Prospekt to Tyoply Stan. Express No. 904 goes to the right along Leningradsky Prospekt in Mitino.

Night routes will also change slightly. H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 and H6 will be connected by a single transfer hub on Slavyanskaya Square, near the Kitay-Gorod metro station. At night, these routes will converge on Slavyanskaya Square so that late passengers can transfer between them and go to the other end of the city. The traffic intervals will remain the same - 30 minutes. The rest of the round-the-clock routes will remain unchanged.

The old ones are clear. Are there new routes?

One of the new routes is bus A from Three Station Square to Luzhniki. Now it is easy to get to the center from the stations, drive along the boulevards and go to Komsomolsky Prospekt. And you can go to Sapsan by bus.

Previously, the only way to get to the center from Kazansky, Leningradsky or Yaroslavsky railway stations was to go down to the metro. Because of this, the Komsomolskaya metro station is the busiest in the city. Now you can use ground transport instead of the metro.

But A is not exactly a new route. Since the beginning of the 20th century, there was a tram route A in Moscow, which ran along the Boulevard Ring. The route changed many times, was postponed and shortened until 1991, when it was closed. In 1997, the route was restored along the eastern part of the Boulevard Ring - from Kaluga to Chistye Prudy. Muscovites call this tram route "Annushka". The new main bus route A runs along the western part of the Boulevard Ring, continuing the traditions of the historical route of the last century.

Another example is the M1 route, which connects Leninsky and Leningradsky avenues through the center. You can sit on Tverskaya and in 15 minutes you will be near Gorky Park or go further along Leninsky Prospekt and get off at Neskuchny Garden.

Previously, from the north along Tsvetnoy Boulevard it was possible to get only to Trubnaya Square, then the route was interrupted. If you needed to get to Teatralnaya or Lubyanka, you had to go down to the subway. Now there is route number 38: - from Rizhskaya to Neglinnaya, the Bolshoi Theater, Lubyanka and Kitay-gorod without changes.

Finally, we have restored traffic along Bolshaya Nikitskaya - see route M6 from Nagatinskaya to Polezhaevskaya. The movement of public transport along Neglinnaya has been restored. Some of the routes that are now being launched have not been operated in Moscow since the 1990s.

How to understand the new route numbering?

Very simple: all renamed routes now contain the letter M: M1, M2, M3, and so on. Route numbering - in a row from top to bottom counterclockwise:

M1 - along Leningradsky Prospekt;
- M2 - according to Kutuzovsky;
- M3 - according to Komsomolsky;
- M4 - according to Leninsky;
- M5 and M6 - according to Warsaw;
- M7 - along Volgograd;
- M8 - along the highway of Enthusiasts;
- M9 - along Prospekt Mira.

Especially for the project, we created new stop flags, maps and stencils on the bus. At first, both old and new route numbers will be on the stencils.

At each stop in the center there is a traffic scheme with all stops.

Why are the new routes faster?
Two reasons: there are more buses on the routes, and the routes themselves have straightened out and almost completely switched to dedicated lanes.

More buses means shorter intervals, less waiting at stops. The average traffic interval across the entire network is eight minutes, with main routes having an average interval at peak times of seven minutes.

Thanks to dedicated lanes, buses and trolleybuses go faster. And because routes no longer have awkward detours, passengers can get to their destination faster.

For example, in the central corridor around the Kremlin, buses will now run along specially designed dedicated lanes in two directions, and not bypass the Kremlin in a circle. Previously, due to one-way traffic on a trip around the Kremlin, you could lose up to half an hour.

Are the stops also new?
Some yes. We are installing 24 new stops in the center of Moscow, 12 of which are located in areas where public transport has not run since the 90s.

We will also gradually replace old stops with new, more convenient ones.

Why ground transport, and not the subway? What buses will run? How to ride now? Why were these routes designed? You can find answers to these and other questions on the website of the special project.

Yesterday, unexpectedly, on the official website of the mayor's office, it was about restarting the entire surface transport network of the city. It was called the "Magistral" and promises to create a miracle: transport will run twice as often, there will be more buses, trolleybuses and trams, Muscovites will be able to plan their routes and move around the city more conveniently.

The project divides the routes into three types: trunk routes, which will be able to travel long distances - from Kitai-Gorod to Vladykino, for example; social - up to polyclinics and passport offices, as well as district, providing connectivity within the districts. The most popular routes have been straightened out to increase traffic speeds and shorten intervals. Lubyanka will become the main transfer point of the network: here you can transfer from any main bus (the number is marked with the letter M) to the one you need.

The project is theoretically revolutionary: the distance between our metro stations reaches more than one and a half kilometers, and now, instead of a 20-minute walk, it will be possible to get to your destination in 5 minutes by bus. Transport will cover some new areas; buses that used to go round the Kremlin will no longer do this - special corridors have been allocated for them; a trolleybus line will appear, say, on Bolshaya Nikitskaya. However, Afisha Daily still had questions to the project, which she addressed to the experts.

Why is all this done?

Mikhail Blinkin

Director of the Institute of Transport and Transport Policy of the Higher School of Economics

“The possibilities of transport policy are determined by a simple thing: how much asphalt in the city and how many cars? Divide one by the other. If one car has a lot of asphalt, as in Boston or Philadelphia, then there is a freedom of transport policy. We can not do it at all: let them drive as they want, and leave public transport for the elderly and children as an auxiliary social service. There is also a European version, where there is less asphalt, and they came up with things of sustainable mobility, public transport, a pedestrian environment; it's all beautifully stated in books and laws. Our asphalt is laid according to Soviet layouts, and cars began to appear much later, in the 1990s - one overlapped the other, and as a result, there is critically little asphalt per car in Moscow.

Stimulating travel by public transport is good, but the main thing is to get new passengers. The whip is parking rates: car ownership is getting more expensive, that's right. An alternative is needed: this is why public transport is being made more attractive. It is in this direction that we need to go further - to make public transport more privileged, even more comfortable.

As for the terrestrial network, its main formats were set by the planning decisions of the 1970s - there have been no major reforms in 50 years, something was added and something was taken away, but, in principle, little has changed. And now there are major changes. There will be, for example, a metrobus - privileged public transport. Without going down the subway, it will be possible to travel long distances. Development will inevitably proceed by trial and error. One route, like the old 144th along Leninsky Prospekt, will not reach Theater Square, as before, but go even further, to Lubyanka. Let's see how the new network will work in the center - from Mokhovaya and Novy Arbat, for example. And maybe it will be good. In any case, the tragedy will not happen. It would be a tragedy if the MCC were not in demand - the rails have already been laid there, and there is nowhere to get away from them.”

How was the work on the "Magistral"?

Alexey Mityaev

adviser to the head of the Department of Transportation, head of the Magistral project

“To design routes, we brought together everyone involved in transport in Moscow: representatives of departments and prefectures, activists, bloggers and international experts with experience in working on route networks. We analyzed population density and concentration of jobs, passenger flows of existing routes and metro stations, transfers during trips, speed and car flows.

For this project, an interactive platform was specially created based on data from the TsODD, Mosgortrans, and the Department of Information Technology, with the help of which it was possible to analyze impersonal information about the movement of citizens around the city. About 1,000 people are involved in the preparation of the Magistral.

As a result, regularly running transport will appear in the city center, which will enable residents of the Central District and passengers who work in the center to get to their destination without going underground and without wasting time on transfers between lines. After the launch of the new route network, the center will have a stable surface transport network for the first time. If now in the center of Moscow transport needs to wait an average of 16 minutes, then after the commissioning of the Magistral, this time will be reduced to 5-8 minutes.

Andrey Karmatsky

CEO of Urbica, which did analytics for Magistral

“We were one of the expert companies - helping colleagues from the Department of Transport with the analysis and visualization of data in the project. One of our approaches is to analyze the available data on the movement of passengers and identify inefficient, problem areas. In the old version of the network, there were routes that, due to the organization of one-way traffic, did not follow optimally. It was inconvenient: you could come to one place (for example, to work), but it didn’t work out in the opposite direction - you had to look for this route on another street. New routes are moving in both directions - due to the opening of a public transport lane on the Kremlin Ring, in particular. The second important improvement: the most popular routes will run more often, which is why they are called trunk routes. As I assume, the authors of the project will continue to monitor the results of the launch and supplement and correct the network, following the same principles.”

Why the main transfer hub on Lubyanka?

Arthur Shahbazyan

Deputy Head of the Traffic Management Center

“Historically, the Lubyanka area has always been distinguished by increased business activity, starting from the 12th century. It was in these places that the road lay that connected Kyiv and Smolensk with the then Vladimir-Suzdal Rus. The transport component of this area of Moscow contributed to the fact that food shops and forges began to appear here. And returning to the question why Lubyanka was chosen as the center, we can say that Lubyanka and Kitay-gorod were chosen as points for turning public transport routes due to their convenient location in the center of Moscow. Stops at Lubyanka and Kitay-gorod will provide a comfortable transfer between routes running from the center to the periphery of the capital. Surface transport will be integrated into a single full-fledged network and will become an attractive alternative to the metro and cars.

This project is very important for the city, because it affects not only the center, as one might think, but also remote areas. Many buses connect not only neighboring streets, but also opposite districts of Moscow. For example, the route M1 (former T1), passing through Tverskaya, comes to Gagarin Square and follows further along Leninsky Prospekt. There was no two-way public transport on the Kremlin Ring for decades, causing many buses to travel twice as much just to bypass the Kremlin. The dedicated lane will run along the opposite lane from Lubyanskaya Square to Bolshaya Yakimanka Street. But the movement of public transport in the opposite direction from the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge to Lubyanka Square will be allowed for the time being in the general stream. Instead of obsolete routes along inconvenient roads, Muscovites will receive a main transport that runs throughout the day at intervals of 5-10 minutes (in metro mode), which will connect the main points of attraction of the city. And thanks to the introduction of a dedicated lane on the Kremlin Ring, for some passengers, the way home will be shorter by 45 minutes.”

What problems remain unresolved?

Anna Shevchenko

architectural reviewer

“Systematization in the conditions of metropolitan chaos is already good, and measures such as optimizing existing routes, introducing a clock schedule, and most importantly, bringing the center closer to the outskirts, cannot but encourage.

Another question is how this system will work. First, routes. All of them are now divided into main, regional and social. But if you look, for example, the M2 route (Arbat - Kutuzovsky - Fili), designed to connect the highway and the center, it turns out that it has not been brought to the highway itself - Mozhayskoye Highway, so only the name remains from the "mainline". Other lines are also interrupted in the middle, the number of chord connections in the project tends to zero. The second point: in the current situation, even an ideal route will not save you from traffic jams. Only dedicated public transport lanes can solve the problem, which, although they begin to actively appear, often do not work. As long as leased lines are not used exclusively for public transport, the center will not approach the outskirts.

And finally, the question of the efficiency of the clock schedule and the number of rolling stock. After the cancellation of minibuses, Muscovites complain about the increase in the waiting time for buses, but for many this is the only way to get to the nearest metro.”

Vasily Bykov

journalist, land transport patriot

“I basically don’t ride the subway. All my childhood I rode the 9th and 13th trolleybuses: from Ostankino they came to the center - to the "Children's World" or to Trubnaya Square. I see no reason to change habits, especially since, according to rumors, the subway is rather disgusting.

Yesterday, suddenly, the city government announced a project with a beautiful industrial name "Magistral". The presentation says that this was done in order "to make it easier for passengers to move around in the center." Small lie! The new network does not solve these problems. For example, the smart guys from the Department of Transportation were not smart enough to close the Boulevard Ring with one route. Everyone knows that from Tsvetnoy to Chistye Prudy can only be reached on foot. Why officials did not take this into account - I do not know. Many areas of the center, such as Patriki, Arbat, from Tverskaya to Bolshaya Nikitskaya, are surrounded by roads where transport runs regularly. There is nothing like it in the regions. Pensioners and pioneers - just walk to the bus stops! And there are many such examples. So the main idea of moving in transport in the center - slightly failed: it is clearly visible on the map - gray wastelands between the colored lines. Meanwhile, Muscovites live there. 24 new stops throughout the center - this, sorry, is not a solution to the problem, this is petting. And I would like a deeper penetration into the center.

But getting to the center and riding on it has become really more convenient for a resident of the outskirts. Distant areas were connected by buses. They promise to drive from Luzhniki to Semenovskaya, from Nagatino to Polezhaevskaya. Wonderful! Many routes have been straightened out and made a little longer and more logical: T9 now runs from the Vladykino metro station to Kitay-gorod - the prayers and banners of Marfino residents have been heard. The new M10 route from Lobnenskaya Street to Kitai-Gorod is also wonderful because the bus passes through the Garden Ring almost through.

To remove the small flaws - and it would be perfect. Another thing worries: in the evenings and on weekends, ground transport almost always runs empty. I am even afraid to take pictures of passing buses: what if the officials see that no one needs it, and finally believe that Muscovites love the metro. And this is not so. The best way to look at the city is from the height of a tram/trolleybus/bus seat.”

What can be said about the design of "Magistrali"?

Nonna Khismatullina

designer, art director of The Moscow Times

“It's great that navigation in the city is becoming a single system, a single brand. This makes Moscow clearer and more logical. As for the graphic part of the map, you can see what a huge amount of information and how carefully it was processed and translated into non-verbal language. It is pleasant to look at the map, you want to look at it - and find a lot of pleasant little things: for example, a small arrow near the stop circle indicates a significant territorial mismatch of the route stop in the opposite direction. This is a very useful thing, but I did not immediately consider it.

The legend is well built: a translucent plate along the perimeter, where the symbols are tied to the entry point of the route on the map. This decision is not new and quite common, in particular, it was similar in the Lebedev reference book "Moscow Transport", however, a little less succinctly executed.

The solution with different line thicknesses and color choices for trunk and regional routes is beautiful. Although there are controversial points in which I could not find the logic. For example, why is route 64 different in color from other social routes? Does the color of the main routes match the color of the line of the metro station from which it starts, or is it a coincidence / mismatch?

The font work is great too. But the captions for reference points (Arbat Gates, the Udarnik cinema, etc.) could be given in a different style, so as not to be confused with metro stations, or icons could be added as additional anchors. By the way, I would simplify the Kremlin icon - now there are too many details, in my opinion. It is also strange that the names of the streets are not duplicated in English, but this is already my fault.”

How will the system as a whole change our perceptions of the city?

Artem Gerasimenko

expert of the Center for Strategic Research

“Moving to Moscow in 1992 was a surprise for me, a seven-year-old child. After the five-story regional Kubinka with quiet closed courtyards, the territory with skyscrapers growing in the fields formed a completely different feeling of being in space. One thing was invariable: Moscow was still as far away as before. Parents sometimes took my sister and me to the city, the road always took more than an hour, of which half the time was in buses. Numbers 813 and 262 will forever be remembered as long-awaited warm - especially in winter - symbols of achieving the goal: "Hurrah, I'm almost home" or "Finally, the metro." But I especially remember those trips when buses along familiar routes brought us somewhere where we didn’t have to go by metro - the Aquarium store in Yasenevo or the Prague market. The natural need for comfort was satisfied, there was a feeling of accessibility - that's how boring I can call it now. And then I was just happy. And then there was the subway.

Twenty-five years later, the city has become much more understandable and familiar to me. I began to live in the Basmanny district, go to work in the Arbat area. I have much more to do, I am now based in the center, using my own or rented bike. But the metro remained the main way to get from point A to point B. The only clear surface transport was trolleybus B, plying along the Garden Ring. All other routes either broke off at unexpected moments, or did not fit into the image of a convenient and understandable way to travel. Studying the details of the Magistral project, I see that both problems will no longer be relevant in a couple of days.

It is obvious that the project, even if it is introduced in stages, will quickly become an integral part of the daily life of citizens, making the process of moving more comfortable and efficient. And if we subjectively assess the various actions of the city government, then the return of the public transport route network to the center is no less significant than bringing beauty to the sidewalks and squares.”

On October 8, 2016, dozens of bus and trolleybus routes were changed. Some of them drove along new routes, and some of the stops in the city center were renamed.
To make transport in the center more convenient, 3 types of routes were launched: main, regional and social.

Trunk routes main and longest. They connect several districts of Moscow at once with the center and among themselves, for example, Leninsky with Leningradsky Prospekt, Luzhniki and Semenovskaya, Nagatinskaya and Polezhaevskaya. Movement interval: 5-10 minutes. These are the fastest and most frequent routes on the network.

District routes shorter: they connect districts with the center. They are easy to get to the main route or take a short trip. Movement interval: 10-15 minutes.

Social routes help Moscow residents get to My Documents centers, polyclinics, multifunctional centers and other socially significant places. Movement interval: up to 30 minutes.

Trunk routes:

Bus T31 Luzhniki Stadium - Trubnaya Square has been assigned the letter A, it will follow the route Luzhniki Stadium - Komsomolskaya Metro Station. From Trubnaya Square, buses run along Tsvetnoy Boulevard, Garden Ring, then along Kalanchevskaya Street (back along Orlikov Lane) to Komsomolskaya Square.

The current bus route A Metro "Universitet" - Akademika Zelinsky Street received a new number C10. His route does not change.

Bus T1 Metro "Nagatinskaya" - Hospital. Botkin was changed to the number M1 Hospital of the Ministry of Railways - Kravchenko Street. From the stop Hotel "Sovetsky" - Theater "Romen" buses now follow in both directions along Leningradsky Prospekt and Volokolamskoye Highway to the stop Hospital MPS, without stopping at the stop Hospital im. Botkin. Between Pushkinskaya and Borovitskaya squares, buses run in both directions along Tverskaya and Mokhovaya streets. And from the stop Cinema "Drummer" along Yakimansky passage, Bolshaya Yakimanka street and Leninsky Prospekt to the stop Kravchenko Street.

Buses № 255k Stadium "Luzhniki" - Metro "Kropotkinskaya" received the number M3 Stadium "Luzhniki" - Metro "Semyonovskaya". From Kropotkinskaya, buses will proceed along Soymonovsky passage, Prechistenskaya embankment (back - along Volkhonka street). Further in both directions: along Mokhovaya Street, Okhotny Ryad Street, Teatralny Proyezd, Lubyanskaya Square, Novaya Square (back - along Lubyansky Proyezd), Maroseyka, Pokrovka, Staraya Basmannaya, Spartakovskaya and Bakuninskaya streets. Then along the Elektrozavodsky bridge, Bolshaya Semyonovskaya and Velyaminovskaya streets (back along Semyonovsky lane) to the Semyonovskaya metro station. M3 buses operate all week from 06:00 to 00:30.

Two routes of trolleybus No. 33 Kravchenko Street - Cinema "Drummer" and № 62 Ozernaya street - Cinema "Drummer" assigned the number M4 Ozernaya street - Cinema "Drummer". On the new route M4, shortened flights are also organized Kravchenko Street - Cinema "Drummer".

Trolleybus routes No. 33k and 84 are cancelled.

Bus route number 25 Nagorny Boulevard - Lubyanskaya Square assigned the number M5 Nagorny Boulevard - Metro "Lubyanka".

Bus route number 6 Silicate plant - Paveletsky railway station assigned the number M6 Silicate plant - Metro station "Nagatinskaya". From the Krasnopresnenskaya metro station, buses run in both directions along Barrikadnaya, Bolshaya Nikitskaya and Mokhovaya streets to Borovitskaya Square. Then along the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge, Serafimovich and Bolshaya Polyanka streets, Lyusinovskaya street (back along Podolsky highway, Pavlovskaya and Bolshaya Serpukhovskaya streets). Then along Bolshaya Tulskaya Street and Varshavskoye Highway to the Nagatinskaya metro station.

Routes of trolley bus No. 16 Karacharovsky overpass - Lubyanskaya Square and No. 63 138th quarter of Vykhina - Lubyanskaya Square assigned the number M7 138th quarter of Vykhina - Metro "Lubyanka". At the same time, shortened flights of the Karacharovsky overpass - Metro "Lubyanka" are organized on the route.

Trolley bus route No. 45 4th Cable Street - Lubyanskaya Square received the number M8 4th Cable Street - Metro "Lubyanka".

T9 bus route Hotel "Ostankino" - Lubyanskaya Square assigned the number M9 Metro "Vladykino" - Metro "Kitay-gorod". From the Ostankino Hotel stop, buses run along Botanicheskaya and Stationnaya streets to the Vladykino metro station. Back along the Susokolovsky highway and Botanicheskaya street (without stopping at Bolshaya Marfinskaya and Malaya Botanicheskaya streets). Further on your route. And from Lubyanskaya Square, buses run along Novaya and Staraya Squares (back along Lubyansky Proyezd) to the Kitai-Gorod metro station.

Bus route number 206 Lobnenskaya street - Savelovsky station assigned the number M10 Lobnenskaya street - Kitay-gorod metro station. From Savelovsky Station, buses run along Novoslobodskaya and Dolgorukovskaya streets, Malaya Dmitrovka Street to Pushkinskaya Square. Then along Tverskaya and Okhotny Ryad, Teatralny passage, Lubyanskaya, Novaya and Staraya squares (back along Lubyansky passage) to Kitay-gorod metro station.

Bus route number 144 Tyoply Stan metro station — Udarnik cinema has been extended to Kitay-gorod metro station. From the Udarnik Cinema stop, buses run in both directions along the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge, Mokhovaya Street, Okhotny Ryad Street, Teatralny Proyezd, Lubyanskaya, Novaya and Staraya Squares (back along Lubyanskiy Proyezd) to Kitay-gorod metro station. Bus number 144c will be canceled.

Bus route number 904 The 4th microdistrict of Mitin - Belorussky Railway Station will be extended to the Kitai-Gorod metro station. From the Belorussky railway station, buses now follow the 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya and Tverskaya streets, Okhotny Ryad, Theater passage, Lubyanskaya, Novaya and Staraya squares (back along Lubyansky passage) to Kitay-gorod. Also, shortened flights No. 904k of the 4th microdistrict of Mitin - Belorussky railway station will appear on the route.

Regional and social routes:

Bus route number 12c changed to number № 101 Palace of Sports "Megasport" - Metro "Kitai-gorod". From Tverskaya Street, buses run in both directions along Okhotny Ryad Street, Teatralny Proyezd, Lubyanskaya, Novaya and Staraya Squares (back along Lubyanskiy Proyezd) to the Kitai-Gorod metro station.

Bus route number 38 Rizhsky Railway Station – Trubnaya Square has been extended to the Kitay-Gorod metro station. From Trubnaya Square, buses travel along Neglinnaya Street, Petrovka Street, Teatralny Proyezd, Lubyanskaya, Novaya and Staraya Squares to Kitay-gorod. And in the opposite direction, buses follow Lubyansky and Teatralny passages, Neglinnaya Street to Trubnaya Square, then on their own route.

Bus number 39 in the direction of the stop Nikitskiye Vorota now follow without stopping at the Garden Ring.

Buses No. 64 and T79 in the direction of Raspletina Street and Savelovsky Station, follow the Garden Ring and Barrikadnaya Street, without stopping to the Mayakovskaya metro station.

Bus number 158 3rd Paveletsky proezd - Metro "Lubyanka" follow to the metro station Lubyanka from the stop Sadovnicheskaya street along Sadovnicheskaya street, Balchug street, Bolshoy Moskvoretsky bridge, Varvarka street and Lubyansky proezd. In the opposite direction from the Lubyanka metro station along Lubyanskaya, Novaya and Staraya squares, Varvarka street, Bolshoi Moskvoretsky bridge, Bolotnaya street, Sofiyskaya, Raushskaya and Kosmodamianskaya embankments to the stop Kosmodamianskaya embankment, 4. Then - by your own route.

Bus T3 follow the route Milashenkova Street - Mayakovskaya metro station. From the Ogorodniy Proezd stop, they drive along Milashenkova Street to the Milashenkova Street stop in both directions. From the Vorotnikovsky Lane stop along the Garden Ring and Dolgorukovskaya Street without stopping at Samotechnaya Square.

Bus T47 from the Dolgorukovskaya street stop, go without a stop to the Mayakovskaya metro station along Dolgorukovskaya street and Sadovoye Koltso to Samotechnaya Square.

Bus T39 from the Fili stop - Novy Arbat Street, extended to the Mayakovskaya metro station. From Smolenskaya metro station, buses run in both directions along Sadovoye Koltso to Mayakovskaya metro station.

Trolley bus number 8 Moskvoretsky market — Dobryninskaya metro station now runs to the Udarnik Cinema stop along Bolshaya Polyanka and Serafimovicha streets.
Trolleybus route No. 1k has been cancelled.

Renaming stops:

Stop Lubyanskaya Squarefor bus routes No. 101, 144, 904 and M2, M3, M10, K, H1, H2 in Teatralny proezd when going to Lubyanka Square is now calledMetro Lubyanka.
Metro stop “Aleksandrovsky Sad”for bus routes No. 144 and M1, M2, M3, M6, K, H1, H2 on Mokhovaya Street and Vozdvizhenka Street is renamed the Lenin Library Metro.
Stop Central Telegraph for bus routes No. 101, 904 and M1, M10, H1 on Tverskaya Street when going to the center is now called Okhotny Ryad Metro.
Stop Trubnaya Square for bus routes A, No. 24, 38; trolleybus number 13 on Tsvetnoy Boulevard in both directions was renamed the Trubnaya Metro. At the same time, the Trubnaya Ploshchad stop for bus routes A on Petrovsky Boulevard will become Petrovsky Boulevard when traveling to Pushkinskaya Square.
Stop Petrovsky Gates for bus routes A on Petrovsky Boulevard, when traveling to Trubnaya Square, it was renamed Petrovsky Boulevard.
Stop Museum of Fine Arts named after Pushkin for bus routes No. 255, M3 on Volkhonka Street, when going to Gogolevsky Boulevard, it was renamed into Kropotkinskaya Metro Station - Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.
Metro stop “Kropotkinskaya” for bus routes M6 on Volkhonka Street when going to Borovitskaya Square, it is also called: Metro Kropotkinskaya - Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.
Stop Triumphalnaya Square for bus routes No. 101, 904, as well as M1, T3, T10, T39, B on Tverskaya, 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya, Bolshaya Sadovaya streets and in Oruzheiny Lane is now called Mayakovskaya Metro.
Stop Nikitsky Gate - TASS for bus routes No. 39, M6 on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street will be renamed Nikitsky Gates.
Stop Street Balchug for bus routes No. 158 on Sofiyskaya embankment will be renamed Sofiyskaya embankment.
Stop 3rd Golutvinsky Lane for bus routes No. 144 and M1, H1; trolleybuses No. 4 and M4 on Yakimansky passage when traveling from the center is called Bolshaya Yakimanka Street. In addition, it was moved 90 meters back to house number 9 on Malaya Yakimanka.

Ground transport in Moscow. The new network of bus routes will allow passengers to easily move between the center and the outskirts, using only land transport. At the same time, a number of old routes will change, so you need to familiarize yourself with the Magistral traffic scheme in advance.

For example, using Magistral, you can come from a residential area to the business center, move to another part of the center of Moscow to meet friends or attend a cultural event, and then return home - and all this by land transport.

The Moscow authorities expect that thanks to the launch of the Magistral transport system, by 2017, passenger traffic on land transport will increase, which will become more reliable and convenient: buses and trolleybuses will run at a predictable interval of 5-10 minutes, routes will become more comfortable.

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New routes

In total, 39 bus and trolleybus routes will be organized and changed, and 24 new stops will be added.

Routes of the "Magistrali" will contain the letter "M" in the name. M1 will run along Leningradsky Prospekt, M2 - along Kutuzovsky, M3 - along Komsomolsky, M4 - along Leninsky, M5 and M6 - along Varshavsky, M7 - along Ryazansky, M8 - along Entuziastov Highway and M9 - along Mira Avenue.

In addition to the existing ones, 24 new stops are being introduced in the center of Moscow, 12 of which are located in areas where public transport has not run since the 90s.

Three new types of routes will appear in Moscow: main, regional and social.

Trunk routes will be the main and longest. They will connect remote areas of the capital both with the center and with each other. In particular, the routes will connect Leninsky and Leningradsky avenues, the Luzhniki stadium and the Semenovskaya metro station, the Vladykino and Kitai-Gorod metro stations. Movement intervals will be 5 - 10 minutes.

District routes will be shorter - they will connect the sleeping areas with the center. Passengers will be able to easily get to the main routes or make small trips on them. Movement intervals - 10-15 minutes.

Social routes will allow Muscovites to quickly get to the My Documents centers, polyclinics, multifunctional centers and other socially significant places. Intervals of movement - up to 30 minutes.

Which routes will change

In addition to new bus routes, a number of existing ones are being changed. Some existing routes have been renamed and “straightened”, for example, the route of trolleybus No. 62 (the Udarnik cinema - Leninsky Prospekt) has become M4, bus number 6 has become M6 (previously it moved along Vozdvizhenka in one direction, and along Gogolevsky Boulevard in the other , will now walk back and forth along the same streets).

In the area of Dolgorukovskaya and Barrikadnaya streets, through traffic will appear through the Garden Ring. Buses used to go there, turn around, go back (now they will just go straight).

In addition, the movement of express routes No. 144 and 904, as well as night routes H1 - H6, will change. And that's not counting brand new bus routes.

Details of all the changes in the movement of ground transport in Moscow can be found on the schemes "Magistral".

"Highway" schemes

Route maps within the Magistral network will appear at all public transport stops in the center of Moscow, and will also be displayed in the Yandex.Transport service and mobile application.

In addition, new stop flags, maps and stencils have been developed for the launch of Magistral. For the first time, for the convenience of passengers, old and new route numbers will be displayed on stencils, trunk lines will be marked with thick multi-colored lines.

Fare

More than 100 new modern buses with soft seats and air conditioning will run on the new routes of the Magistral network. The same tickets will be valid for travel on buses as in other types of ground transport in Moscow, including Troika cards.

Benefits and prospects

When developing a new transport system, three main criteria were taken into account:

The routes will run where passengers need them most, in densely populated residential areas and in the center of the capital;

Stops are organized in the maximum accessibility from a large number of shopping, cultural and business centers so that passengers can reach them on foot;

Linearity and symmetry: routes are organized without loops and deviations, while stops are located on both sides of the road, with the possibility of crossing.

According to the press service of the Moscow City Hall, new routes and stops will gradually be included in the Magistral scheme. At the same time, new dedicated lanes for surface urban transport will appear, and road markings will be improved. The last phase of the Magistral network will be launched in 2017.

“People are getting used to bus routes, and their global reform is fraught with great inconvenience for passengers. The fact that ground transport is waiting for serious changes, the capital's officials started talking just the other day, and they intend to launch the "Magistral" on Saturday. Meanwhile, the biggest problems for passengers, such as being late for work and other troubles, may arise on Monday, when the Magistral will work at full capacity, ”says Petr Shkumatov, coordinator of the Blue Bucket Society movement.

A new route network of ground transport "Magistral", focused on the central districts of the city. The Village understands why the buses were renamed in the Central Administrative District and how to get there, for example, from the Rizhsky railway station to the Lubyanka directly.

Why do we need "Magistral"?

The Moscow government says that with the launch of Magistral, surface transport in the city center will run twice as often, 103 buses will be added to the city’s fleet, and 24 new stops and six dedicated lanes will appear in the Central Administrative District. Thus, 370 buses, trolleybuses and trams will run through the center, and their passenger traffic should increase by 43%. "Magistral", as conceived by the mayor's office, will help Muscovites build their routes through the city center only with the help of land transport. It should be noted that the innovations will not affect the sleeping areas of Moscow, as well as route "B".

What will change?

All land transport routes in the center were divided into four categories: main, regional, social and night. The main difference of the new system will be the main routes formed on the basis of the old directions. Their trajectory has been adjusted so that buses can cover the same distances in less time. These routes will be the longest and will connect several districts - for example, the territory of the Polezhaevskaya and Nagatinskaya metro stations - through the city center. The interval in the movement of the main routes is the smallest - from five to ten minutes, and the letter "M" is present in their numbers.

District - shorter routes on which you can get from a specific area to the Central Administrative District. For example - from Alekseevsky to Trubnaya Square. These buses run every 10 to 15 minutes. Social routes will run less frequently - once every half an hour. On them, citizens will be able to get, for example, to the MFC, clinics and passport offices. Night routes will be connected by a common interchange hub located next to the Kitai-Gorod metro station. The intervals of their movement will remain the same - twice an hour.

Also, several popular routes have been "straightened" in the center. For example, in the area of Dolgorukovskaya and Barrikadnaya streets, a through traffic of public transport was organized, thanks to which buses will be able not to go to the Garden Ring - due to this, the route time was reduced by 10-15 minutes.
And bus number 6, which used to go one way along Vozdvizhenka and back along Gogolevsky Boulevard, will now run only along Gogolevsky and will be called "M6". In order for the townspeople to get used to the changes, the next few months buses will have signs with both old and new numbers.

What new routes will appear?

Among the new routes is bus "A", which will go from the area of the three stations to Luzhniki through the western part of the Boulevard Ring. The M1 bus will also appear, which will connect Leninsky and Leningradsky avenues through Tverskaya and Gorky Park. It will also be possible to get from the Rizhsky railway station to the Lubyanka directly on the new bus number 38. And the M6 main route will run from the Nagatinsky district to Polezhaevskaya along Bolshaya Nikitskaya, which has recently restored traffic.

Andrey Karmatsky

founder of the mapping company Urbica Design:

Under the Department of Transport, a working group was created from employees of the city hall and transport organizations, including our company Urbica Design, as well as from foreign experts. The members of the group analyzed large amounts of information, based on this data they identified inefficient routes and developed a new transport network. The experts then assessed how much the new scheme is more effective than the existing one. For example, it was calculated how far one could get in half an hour by public transport on old routes and using the Magistral network.

When creating new routes, we focused on passenger traffic data, took into account transfer routes from ground transport to the metro, metro statistics, average public transport speeds according to GLONASS sensors, and other information.

In fact, we are returning ground transport to the city center. And due to the opening of new dedicated lanes, in particular on the Kremlin Ring, it became possible to optimize routes so that they become convenient for passengers.

Press service of the Moscow Department of Transport:

Moscow needs high-quality and convenient land transport. Instead of disparate and outdated routes, Muscovites will receive a mainline transport that runs throughout the day at intervals of five to ten minutes, which will connect the most popular points of attraction in the city with the most convenient trajectories.

We expect ground transport passenger traffic in the city center to double or triple over the next two years to reach one million people a day. This will be possible thanks to a new approach to network planning.

Trunk routes running during the day at intervals of five to ten minutes will receive the designation "M" in front of the number. We have made changes to the numbering of routes for the convenience of Muscovites. The letter “M” in front of the number will indicate to passengers that this route does not need to wait: it runs at minimum intervals throughout the day. The average traffic interval on the central routes will be reduced by more than two times. If now in the center of Moscow transport needs to wait an average of 16 minutes, then after the introduction of the Magistral and new dedicated lanes, the waiting time will be five to eight minutes.