RUSSIA: Mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin inaugurated the latest expansion of the city’s metro on August 30.
The 14·2 km southwestern extension of Line 8A from Ramenki to Rasskazovka serves seven stations and includes a new depot at Solntsevo, accessed using a 1·1 km branch.
A further extension of Line 8A to Vnukovo Airport is planned to open in 2023.
The funding covers several projects, including Line 11. RUSSIA: The Moscow city authorities have announced plans to invest around 700bn roubles in metro projects in 2020-22, with majority of this funding to go towards network expansion. The funding package includes completion of the 69 km circular Line ...
RUSSIA: President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov attended an opening ceremony for a one-station extension of the Kazan metro on August 30. The 1 km extension runs southeast from Prospekt Pobedy to a new station at Dubravnaya, which becomes the 11th station on the single-line metro. Dubravnaya is 20 m ...
