Along with megacities, their transport system is also rapidly developing. Metro St. Petersburg will not be an exception here. Let's see how they plan to expand and modify it in the coming decades.
General plans for the development of the St. Petersburg metro by 2020
The plan for the development of the metro of the Northern capital is fixed in a document that came into force in 2011 - in the program "Development of the transport system of St. Petersburg." According to it, by 2020 it is planned:
- Increasing the total length of lines to 139.4 km.
- Opening 13 new stations.
- Launch of two new electric depots.
145.785 billion rubles were allocated for the implementation of the plan (12.1 billion of which were received from the federal budget). Contracts have already been signed for the opening of the following St. Petersburg metro stations and depot:
- By 2018: Begovaya, Danube, Novokrestovskaya, Glory Avenue, Shushary, Yuzhnoye depot.
- By 2019: Mining Institute.
- By 2022: "Putilovskaya", "South-West", "Teatralnaya" (the latter - so far without exits to the surface,to be made later), Krasnoselskoye depot.
Now let's take a closer look at the St. Petersburg metro development plans.
2017-2022
Metro of the city in 2017-2022 will change as follows:
- The second stage of the Frunzensky radius will open - the stations "Dunaiskaya", "Shushary", "Prospect of Glory".
- Primorsky Metro St. Petersburg will extend from Komendantsky Prospekt to Shuvalovsky Prospekt.
- Nevsko-Vasilevskaya line will be longer - after "Primorskaya" they will build "Novokrestovskaya", then "Begovaya", and the final one will be "Planernaya".
- The opening of a section of the Pravoberezhnaya metro line of St. Petersburg is expected - the stations "Spasskaya", "Teatralnaya", "Mining Institute".
- The first stage of the Krasnoselsko-Kalinin direction will be represented by the Yugo-Zapadnaya and Karetnaya stations.
In addition to the above stations, it is planned to open the Yuzhnoye depot (Frunzensky radius) and Krasnoselskoye (Krasnoselsko-Kalininskaya line).
2022-2028
The St. Petersburg metro development plan for this period is as follows:
- Pravoberezhnaya line will run from Dybenko Street to Kudrovo. Along with this, there will be a further possibility of its extension to the "South-East".
- A section of the Mining Institute-Lesnaya metro ring will be launched.
- Expectedopening of a section of the Krasnoselsko-Kalinin direction "Karetnaya" - "Ruchiev".
- Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya line after "Prospect Veteranov" will grow with stations "Soldat Korzun Street" and "Prospect Marshal Zhukov". It is also planned to open forklift traffic in this direction along the route "Prospect Veteranov" - "Ulyanka" - "Pulkovo".
The plan for the development of the St. Petersburg metro during this period also implies the opening of the Ladoga depot of the Pravoberezhny direction.
Development beyond 2028
More distant future plans are as follows:
- On the Pravoberezhny direction, the Mining Institute-Yuntolovo section will be opened.
- The circle line will grow clockwise in the east from Lesnaya to the Mining Institute.
- The Admir alteysko-Okhtinskaya line will open on the Dvinskaya-Yanino section.
- On the Frunzensko-Primorsky direction after "Shuvalovsky Prospect" there will be another metro station of St. Petersburg - "Kolomyazhskaya".
- A new section of the Krasnoselsko-Kalininskaya branch - "Yugo-Zapadnaya" - "Sosnovaya Polyana" will be launched.
- Two new stations will appear on the Nevsko-Vasilyevskaya metro line in St. Petersburg - Admir alteyskaya-2 (between Gostiny Dvor and Vasileostrovskaya) and Khrustalnaya (between Elizarovskaya and Alexander Nevsky Square).
The following electric depots will also be opened: Yanino and Dvinskoye on the Admir alteysko-Okhta direction, Kolomyazhskoye on the Frunzensko-Primorsky direction, Yuntolovo on Pravoberezhny, Sosnovaya Polyana on the Krasnoselsko-Kalinin direction.
The St. Petersburg metro development plan for 2014 and beyond promises bright prospects for Leningraders. The metropolitan area of the city will be more branched and convenient, with its help it will be possible to get to remote and newly built up areas of St. Petersburg.
