Two unique tunnels and a bridge were built on the northwestern chord. The People's Militia Tunnel is a nightmare come true More than it seems

A “Winchester” tunnel will appear in the capital. The underground road, which will become part of the North-Western Expressway, will be built on People's Militia Street. At the top, the traffic lights will be removed, and in the tunnel itself, cars will drive on two floors - one above the other.

A quarter of the People's Militia Street will go underground. City transport will be moved into the tunnel. It will be built using a special technology: along the tunnel section, two multidirectional flows will flow one above the other, on two floors.

This principle was dubbed “Winchester” - due to its similarity to a rifle, the two barrels of which also lie on top of each other. Each direction - towards Marshal Zhukov Street on the odd side and towards Leningradka on the even side - will be removed into separate tunnels. They start at the same time and at the same depth. Gradually the left side rises and shifts towards the right, which is longer. Once the short left hand section ends, cars exit it into an open area. The cars will move for a hundred meters along the roof of the right tunnel. This is the "Winchester".

The engineers did such tricks for a reason. To relieve congestion on People's Militia Street, they first planned to build an overpass. But local residents protested. We stopped at the tunnel at the intersection with Berzarina Street.

“I believe that the overpass was not a very optimal option. Therefore, judging by the project, such a tunnel is quite good, worthy.” “It will still go down. It will be quieter and calmer,” local residents believe.

The tunnel will become part of the North-West Expressway. Its planned width is six lanes, and the People's Militia - four. To avoid a narrow “neck”, we had to expand it. With conventional technology, the tunnels would run too close to the foundations of houses.

“Building a Winchester tunnel is a difficult decision; it was made solely at the request of residents. If we built two standard tunnels, it would be quite close to the houses,” the Deputy Mayor in the Moscow Government for Urban Planning emphasizes in an interview with the program politics and construction Marat Khusnullin.

The length of the tunnel is almost 800 meters. This will make it possible to remove three traffic lights from Tukhachevsky, Berzarin, and Biryuzov streets. Drivers complain about them tirelessly.

“The problem is the traffic lights, especially at the Oktyabrsky Pole. Everything is worth it.” “Here at rush hour you can stand for up to half an hour,” say the drivers.

On both sides of the tunnel there will be a lane for public and private transport - so that residents of houses on People's Militia Street can freely drive up to their homes. For pedestrians there are five underground passages. Additional turnarounds will be built on the free area above the tunnel. The number of lanes will not decrease during construction. All four lanes will be moved closer to the odd-numbered side of the street. For those traveling towards Leningradka, a temporary lane has already been opened. For those who will move to Marshal Zhukov, it is now being completed. And the first cars will travel through the new tunnel next year.

Text: "Vesti-Moscow"

Three unique road facilities were built on North-Western Expressway (NWH), reports the press service of the capital’s construction complex.

They became Alabyano-Baltiysky tunnel, Winchester type tunnel at the intersection of People's Militia Street with Berzarina Street and girder bridge through gateway No. 9 of the Moscow Canal. Such engineering decisions had to be made to implement projects in a densely built-up urban environment, said the head of the Moscow Construction Department Andrey Bochkarev.

Alabyano-Baltiysky tunnel passes under Leningradsky Prospekt and the Volokolamsky and Leningradsky tunnels of the Zamoskvoretskaya metro line. Its maximum depth - 29 meters, length - 1935 meters.

According to Bochkarev, this the only tunnel in the world, passing under such large transport arteries and built without stopping traffic.

Winchester Tunnel unique in that traffic flows go above each other, and not next to each other. Cars travel almost 100 meters in different tunnels: lower And upper, depths of 12.5 and 10 meters.

Bochkarev noted that the peculiarity of the tunnel is due to the dense development on Narodnogo Opolcheniya Street. There are no analogues to this tunnel in Russia.

Also a unique object is new Karamyshevsky bridge, who completed the construction SZH. During its construction, two banks were built on both banks "floating" bridges, which were then connected. More massive coastal spans were assembled on solid scaffolding on the shore, which served as a counterweight for the central channel span, which was assembled into a canopy using unique 750 ton cranes.

Karamyshevsky mos t - the final part of the construction of the North-Western Expressway. It is part of the section from Marshal Zhukov Avenue to Rublevskoye Highway, on which 9.2 km of roads were built, including two bridges.

The new bridge made it possible to reduce vehicle delays on this section by 6 minutes (2.5 times). It was opened on November 29. Now in this place it is possible to drive in three lanes in each direction due to the elimination of the bottleneck on Karamyshevsky Bridge.

It is noted that 14 thousand 300 cars pass through this area every day SZH to Narodnogo Opolcheniya Street, to the Mnevniki district from Narodnogo Opolcheniya Street - 13 thousand 800 cars per day.

North-Western Chord, will connect the Western, Northwestern, Northern and Northeastern districts of Moscow. It runs from Skolkovskoe highway to Yaroslavl highway. The highway will be able to relieve congestion on Moscow roads by 15%.

By the end of 2016, the first Winchester-type tunnel in the capital will appear at the intersection of Narodnogo Opolcheniya and Berzarina streets (North-Western Administrative District of Moscow). Its peculiarity is that the lanes for vehicle traffic are not located next to each other, but one above the other. Movement along them is carried out in opposite directions.

Winchester Tunnel. Photo: Shot from TVC channel

What are the advantages of the Winchester tunnel design?

The Winchester Tunnel makes it possible to move the route as far as possible away from residential buildings and increase the speed of traffic. Thus, due to the construction of the Winchester tunnel in the North-Western Administrative District, Narodnogo Opolcheniya Street will pass at a distance of 14-15 meters from residential buildings, in the narrowest sections - 11 meters. If a conventional tunnel were built, the distance would be reduced to 6 m.

How will traffic on the site be organized?

The tunnel will have three lanes in each direction. Cars will move towards the Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station in the lower tunnel, 786 meters long, which will pass at a depth of 12.5 meters, and in the upper 542-meter tunnel, which will be located 10 meters from the surface of the earth, transport will move towards the Khoroshevo district -Mnevniki.

Another tunnel will be added to the brilliant long-term construction project - the Alabyano-Baltic Tunnel.

Residents of the Northwestern Administrative District are facing another transport collapse and environmental disaster.

A new enchanting project from Marat Khusnullin, the Moscow City Hall and the notorious NPO Cosmos company, the North-Western Expressway, will be decorated with a tunnel along the street. Civil uprising.

In addition to the most expensive long-term construction - the Alabyano-Baltic tunnel, for which approximately 70 billion rubles have already been spent (no one knows the exact figure), it was decided to build another tunnel, on the street. Civil uprising. The Winchester tunnel at the intersection of Berzarina and People's Militia streets is designed to improve intra-district communications. Apparently, having removed the “extra” turns, and deprived the area of ​​the necessary turns and exits, the planners are expecting miracles.

If they somehow tried to explain the appearance of the Alabyano-Baltic monster: “we will connect two streets,” then the meaning of the emergence of another tunnel is explained vaguely and in general terms: “ The new 786-meter-long overpass will help eliminate congestion at intersections and more efficiently organize the intra-block movement of cars.

Traffic along it will be organized in three lanes in each direction. Two turnarounds will be built - one at the intersection with Berzarina Street, and the second under the Sandy overpass. Some traffic lights will be removed.»

What does "more efficient" mean? “Your eyelashes will become 11% longer and thicker”? It must be said that even without loud statements and reconstructions, the U-turns exist and provide nothing less than the connectivity of the areas near the Molodezhnaya and Krylatskoye metro stations with the Oktyabrsky Pole, Shchukino and Sokol.

But let's look at the babble about crossings in more detail: some crossings are just a traffic light and a pedestrian crossing between Berzarina Street and Oktyabrsky Pole. Opposite the Zebra store there is one of the most necessary intersections in the microdistrict.

As it became known from sources close to NGO Cosmos, the underground passage (which was promised to residents at hearings and meetings with the population) cannot be built. What a perdimonocle! Too many communications are in the way, as well as a strategically important high-voltage cable, which the builders either touched or almost touched. If the underground passage is built as planned, please let us know so that we don’t worry.

Without the Zebra crossing, the Shchukino and Khoroshevo-Mnevniki districts will turn into a monstrous transition-free zone. Muscovites will have to walk hundreds of meters just to cross the road either on Berzarina Street or at the Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station. It is also unclear how the usual U-turns at the intersection near the metro will be carried out?

It will be impossible to turn onto Berzarina Street to the odd side of the street, to houses No. 3/1, 3/2, 5, 7/1, 7/2, 9, 11 by car. You'll have to walk a couple of kilometers back and forth just to turn around.

Making a through passage along the courtyard near the houses means turning the courtyard along the street. Berzarin to another transit route. All those hungry and thirsty to take a detour will rush from the 3rd Khoroshevsky passage through the courtyard and it will be impossible to live in the microdistrict.

Also, in most apartments on People's Militia Street, the old windows were not replaced with new soundproof ones, although the builders are required to do so by law. Citizens' questions are answered: there is no money. Although they had to change the windows en masse. Where did the money go? Where are the windows? After all, construction already began on April 20, 2013?

It seems almost like the little things in life that the pedestrian areas along Narodnoe Opolchenie Street are disfigured and broken.

In some places the roads are dug up, in some places the asphalt is broken, and in rainy weather it is generally impossible to get to public transport stops due to continuous puddles.

It is surprising that the dug up streets, holes and potholes are covered with anything found by the builders in the nearest garbage dumps. Here and there they threw pieces of iron and an old, broken door.

A lot of money will most likely be allocated for the improvement of pedestrian areas during construction!

In a separate line I would like to mention the impudence of the workers and their foremen - they hammer and hammer at any time of the day or night. Mosgosstroynadzor reported that builders do not have permission to work at night. However, nothing has been heard about fines for NPO Cosmos. The response from the supervisory authority states that if the facts are repeated, they will be fined.

Every day, residents contact the police about construction workers violating the silence law. And yesterday they scored at one in the morning, and today after 22.00. Cosmos didn’t care about the residents or the arrival of the police, because what can they do, the police?

More than once I have encountered drunken workers at a construction site. In the cabins on the construction site, in violation of all the rules, there are stoves and kettles on which food is prepared. Builders, up to their ears in sand and fuel oil, go to the nearest Pyaterochka and Zebra stores to shop in their overalls, dirtying those who did not move away from them in time.

Construction equipment is not embarrassed to park in parking lots near residential buildings.

No matter what the cosmonauts do, they get away with it: a truck crane that fell into the Alabyano-Baltic tunnel, and a lamppost with live wires dumped right on top of their cars. The maximum is a fine. It’s absurd, but the inspectors tell me that “fallen truck cranes at a construction site are a common occurrence,” and letters come from the police that “some inconvenience” due to driving piles at night is normal. That is, violation of the law on silence is not punished in any way; Space is the sacred cow of the Moscow construction complex.

Workers periodically block the pedestrian zones along the People's Militia, or the only passage on the street. Berzarina. One day, an ambulance could not get to the patient, so the car with the doctors stood there, waiting for the building blocks to be unloaded.

When the pipes were installed, water flowed from the hoses for several days, washing away the soil and creating mud on the road where people walk.

Those who designed the chord and the old grandmothers will be cursed. They will have to come to terms with changes to several of their usual bus and trolleybus routes. Attention grandma!!! Bus route No. 26, the one that goes directly to city clinic No. 173, will change. How? Try to find out about this at the Northwestern Administrative District Prefecture.

They try to talk less often about changes in public transport routes; it is a very slippery topic, because the affairs of the Moscow authorities do not fit in with conversations about working for the benefit of residents.

If I were the sleepy office clerks, happy with their salary, a car on credit for trips to the dacha and bowling on Saturdays, I would worry now about how we will all get by public transport to the Oktyabrskoye Pole and Shchukinskaya if suddenly there is a traffic jam on vaunted chord?

Now public transport easily travels from Molodezhnaya and Krylatskoye to Sokol. You can easily drive from one area to another and turn towards Shchukinskaya. After the launch of the Alabyano-Baltic Tunnel, the traffic pattern for public transport along the bridge on the street. Alabyana is foggy and uncertain. Will trolleybuses run to the Sokol circle, and if so, how?

If traffic no longer remains as before, how will residents get from one area to another and to the Sokol metro station? Where is the promised improvement in “district connectivity”?

All the emerging changes only contribute to the difficulty of movement between regions and the deterioration of the situation with transport accessibility. Where is that comfortable city that the capital’s TV channels broadcast so much about?

In the future, the five-minute distance from home to the Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station will need to be walked, overcoming various obstacles along the way. Where is the city convenient for residents, if the entire city residential street was destroyed, and there is already thick smog in the air, visible to the naked eye?

On Tukhachevsky Street, instead of normal crossings, they are going to build an ugly overground monster forever and ever. After this, words from the lips of Moscow officials about a comfortable city sound like a mockery!

And one more important point - the construction of the North-Western Expressway is still going nowhere. That is, residents have not seen any permitting documents for the construction of a road across the Mnevnikovskaya floodplain. I would really like to know where the 8-lane highway, which ends at a 6-lane bridge, will go next? We haven’t heard anything about plans to build a science city in Skolkovo for a long time, but we have heard about plans to tie the chord to the planned Moscow-St. Petersburg route.

There are no dedicated lanes for public transport along the SZH. At least I haven’t heard about them, and I even asked questions on this topic to the prefect of the North-Western Administrative District Vladimir Goverdovsky and the deputy prefect Prishchepov. In response, I heard inarticulate babble that our movement against the People’s Militia would be simply wonderful.

Total: at the moment, the situation with the movement of residents within the area is planned to worsen and there are a lot of obstacles and delays for public transport. But the first and main condition for a comfortable city is the convenience of pedestrians.

"WITH There is now a temporary bypass road in the area of ​​People's Militia Street." Perhaps these crooked narrow passages are just that? New temporary bypass road?

And how temporary is such a bypass road? The Alabyano-Baltiysky tunnel has been under construction for 8 years now and the end of the edge is not in sight. The whole secret is that NPO Cosmos will build indefinitely, because the longer construction drags on, the more budget money will be pumped in. This is a very profitable business, building forever.

This year, NPO Cosmos was even filed with the Arbitration Court, demanding that the company be declared bankrupt. The application was withdrawn, but the residue remained: how can a probable bankrupt build the most expensive facilities in Moscow, and even win tenders for the construction of new ones?

And of course, on People’s Militia Street there will be not three lanes in each direction, but four. The good guys from the Department of Transport are always bashfully silent about one more lane on each side for U-turns. Considering the lack of traffic lights on the future route, the authorities are preparing Moscow residents for another PREDICTABLE transport collapse this year.

Metro "Oktyabrskoye Pole". Devastation. They promised to complete the construction of the North-Western Expressway section by December 2013. Everyone laughed, no one believed it. And they laughed rightly. A month later, the poster was replaced by the next one that the opening was being postponed to 2014. Now Khusnullin announced the construction of the tunnel before 2016. It's only the beginning.

It’s surprising that the creators of the North-West Expressway talk about temporary inconveniences. In fact, residents will forever receive a “nightmare on Elm Street”, the roar of the transit route under their windows 8 meters from their beds and traffic flow, the environmental damage from which is impossible to even approximately predict.

In 2016, Russia's first Winchester-type transport tunnel opened in Moscow. Due to its two-story design, the structure has greater throughput and at the same time takes up less space than standard transport interchanges. A RIA Real Estate correspondent found out how the Gormost State Budgetary Institution maintains the tunnel, what is in its technical rooms and how the building in the form of a glass ball on the Sokol is connected to the object.

Double-barreled shotgun principle

Despite its uniqueness, the transport structure in the north-west of Moscow has a rather dry official name - a tunnel at the intersection of Narodnogo Opolcheniya Street and Berzarina Street. But among the people it is primarily known as a hard drive. As Andrei Abramov, deputy head of the Gormost-North section, explains, the tunnel is directly connected to the American gun.

“In 2013, the object began to be built on the principle of an American Winchester rifle. It has two barrels, one located above the other. Our tunnel is designed in the same way: its parts overlap each other for half the length from the side of the passage towards the Alabyano-Baltic Tunnel, and towards Marshal Zhukov Avenue, this is the most ordinary tunnel,” says Abramov.

The unusual design of the structure is not at all a whim of the designer, but a necessity dictated by the complete residential development of the area and the lack of opportunity to strengthen and expand the adjacent buildings. If the tunnel had been built in the classical form, then with the expansion of Narodnogo Opolcheniya Street the road would have run almost right next to the apartment buildings. The distance between the entrances and the roadway would be no more than six meters, whereas according to the standards, the length of the required “buffer” must be twice as wide.

As part of the construction of the tunnel, the number of traffic lanes on the streets of Berzarin and People's Militia was increased, and the traffic light, which regularly caused traffic jams, was removed. The tunnel is less than a kilometer long, but nevertheless has a high throughput capacity. The lower tunnel, 780 meters long, runs along the even side of Narodnogo Opolcheniya Street, while the upper tunnel, a little more than 540 meters long, runs along the odd side.

“Since part of the tunnel was left open, there were no particular difficulties during construction. To create it, special sections were cast, a kind of vertebrae of the structure. The only difficulty that the builders had to face was the flooding of the facility. There are many underground rivers here, for example, Tarakanovka, which was closed into a collector to prevent water from its inflows into the tunnel, they made high-quality waterproofing,” says Abramov.

More than it seems

The technical rooms of the Winchester tunnel occupy three floors; you can go down into them through a separate entrance right at the intersection of the upper and lower tracks. Access is strictly open to Gormost employees, who monitor the condition and cleanliness of their facility on a daily basis.

“According to the regulations, we regularly wash and clean the tunnel; if an emergency situation arises, we promptly eliminate the consequences. The State Budgetary Institution “Highways” is responsible for the quality of the roadway; we also interact with JSC “Mosvodokanal”; during incidents, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Data Center are involved in the work,” – Abramov lists.

At the upper level of the tunnel's technical premises, ventilation rooms are equipped and spare generators are stored in case of energy emergencies. The level below is the pumping room, and below it is a sump, a settling tank for collecting wastewater that enters the tunnel during rainfall.

The dungeon with concrete walls and gray water makes a truly gloomy impression, although it also ensures the safety of the structure and passing motorists. According to Abramov, all the water from the tunnel flows into this chamber, which is then cleared of debris and released into the underground sewers of Moscow.

"The Winchester tunnel is also equipped with a complex security system. For example, jet fans are installed here that operate in smoke removal mode. If the tunnel is at a sufficient depth, it is equipped with a gas analysis system. For example, if there are a lot of smoking cars in a traffic jam, a signal is given and the jets they are starting to blow through the tunnel,” explains Abramov.

Jet fans also operate during a fire, dispersing smoke from the fire area. This makes it easier for rescue crews to organize the evacuation of victims. There is no separate fire extinguishing system in the Winchester tunnel, as in the Alabyano-Baltic tunnel, since its length is quite small, and the design includes an open part.

“But there is a fire extinguishing system using water in the Alabyano-Baltic tunnel, since it is deeper and longer. It is worth remembering that not every fire can really be extinguished with water, especially if it is chemical. Therefore, at our facilities, extinguishing with water in emergency situations is used in primarily to lower the temperature at the facility,” says Abramov.

The Mystery of Sharik

The control room, from which Gormost employees monitor the situation at subordinate facilities in real time, is located near the Sokol metro station, in the same building with a glass dome, familiar to all Muscovites.

“In Gormost circles, we call him Sharik,” Abramov says with a smile. Initially, the building was built as a transborder for trams; according to the idea, they were supposed to drive inside and turn around. But with the development of transport infrastructure, trains became longer, and the idea was abandoned, so the company’s control room appeared in such a shocking place.

Most of the building is occupied by a control room with dozens of monitors. They broadcast images from tunnels, pedestrian crossings and sections of chords in the Gormosta area of ​​responsibility. According to Abramov, monitoring covers almost the entire north of Moscow: the Alabyano-Baltiysky tunnel, existing tunnels as part of the North-Western Expressway, the Mikhalkovsky and Winchester tunnels, and video surveillance of the constructed section of the North-Eastern Expressway has also been organized here.

“There are a lot of accidents in Moscow tunnels; motorists need to be very careful when driving in such areas. Just recently, our service car was standing in the Alabyano-Baltiysky tunnel with its special lights on, cleaning the road in the right lane, and a reckless driver was rushing through the tunnel. As a result, After the accident, the car became half the size,” says Abramov.