Autobahn, train station, kiosk: where Kudrovo's transport dreams will lead without a metro. Unconnected Kudrovo hub The government criticized the transport hub in Kudrovo
In Kudrovo, the regional authorities intend to build a bus station for 400 passengers with 15 arrival and departure platforms. Over time, there will be a metro station and a railway platform from which electric trains will go to Ladozhsky Station, a tram line from the Ulitsa Dybenko metro station to the village of Novosaratovka, open parking lots and interceptor parking for 2,208 cars. Now you can enter Kudrovo by crossing the railway tracks at the alignment of Dybenko Street or through the territory of the MEGA Dybenko shopping center through the interchange with the Kola highway. Both options are inconvenient. The new transport hub, together with the modernization of the existing overpass, which officials will ensure accessibility to the growing suburb. The cost of the project is 7.6 billion rubles. The transport hub will be built using extra-budgetary sources; the project is planned to begin implementation in 2021.
“A city is being built in Kudrovo for 80,000 residents; in fact, 40,000 already live,” the chief architect of the Leningrad region, Evgeny Domrachev, outlined the scale of the problem.
The developer of the preliminary PPT, “Studio-38,” complains about the lack of space for placing the transport hub: it has to be “fitted” into the 1.8 hectares occupied by the garage cooperative. 50 hectares around the site have already been developed by housing developers. The approved planning project should serve as the basis for the purchase of land from garage owners.
For now, the PPT sketch has been sent for revision. Members of the City Council did not see in it “interconnection with the objects of the city road network and railway.”
“The sketch does not show pedestrian connections for those living in Kudrovo,” explained the decision of the City Council, Deputy Chairman of the Leningrad Region Government for Construction Mikhail Moskvin. - It is unclear how exactly pedestrians will approach this transport hub. The first stage of the project will be a bus station, and it needs to be clearly zoned, as well as a promising metro station and a railway station.”
Documentation on the planning of the territory for the future placement of a transport hub (TPU) Kudrovo was presented at a meeting of the City Council of the Leningrad Region by Studio 38 LLC Konstantin Shcherbina. The customer of the work was the ANO “Directorate for the Development of the Transport System of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.”
According to the project, the designers connected the future vestibule of the Yugo-Vostochnaya metro station (Kudrovo), the bus station, turning circles and public transport stops, interceptor parking, as well as the future junction of two platforms of the Oktyabrskaya Railway (the Zanevsky Post stop) into a single unit.
The hub itself will resemble a cross. In its southern part there will be an above-ground metro vestibule. From west to east of the “cross” there will be a through passage that will lead users of the structure directly to the Mega-Dybenko hypermarket. A bus station for international flights will be located in the northwestern part, and parking lots for public transport and regional minibuses will be located in the southwest. In the center of the “cross” there will be a high-rise business center. In total, over 7 billion rubles of investor money are expected to be invested in the implementation of this large-scale project by 2021.
As Mr. Shcherbin said, practically the only free plot of land in the microdistrict is allocated for transport hubs. The design area is 52 hectares. The node itself will occupy 8 hectares, that is, 3 plots.
According to Konstantin Shcherbin, several garage cooperatives are now located on this territory. However, all the land under them is state property, so the authorities can seize it at any time. Deputy Chairman of the Government of the 47th Region Mikhail Moskvin found it difficult to clarify the status of the lands, as well as the prospects of providing citizens with compensation at public expense. At the same time, the official said that there were a huge number of comments on the transport hub project already at the first stage. Including from the Committee of Natural Resources of the Leningrad Region, from environmental supervision, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and power engineers, as well as the transport department.
The fact is that the designers proposed placing the junction itself on an area bounded by the Kola highway in the south, the Mega-Dybenko hypermodel in the east, and the railway on the border with St. Petersburg in the west. As Mr. Moskvin explained, with this location of the facility, it remains unclear how 80% of the residents of Kudrovo will be able to use the transport hub without getting to it by personal vehicle. As it turned out from the designers’ explanations, to do this, “horseless” citizens will have to cross Tsentralnaya Street, along which up to 70% of the traffic flow from Kudrovo is already moving.
The second claim turned out to be more significant. As noted by the head of the Committee on Architecture and Urban Planning, Evgeniy Domrachev, the project does not provide for a clear division by stages, implementation deadlines and areas. “We know that the metro will come to Kudrovo. For this purpose, a tunnel has already been built from the Dybenko metro station, but no one knows when exactly this will happen. How are we going to present such a project to an investor? We must remember that only the metro requires at least 2-3 hectares to be reserved for its needs. In addition, there are still no clear plans from the Railways,” the official emphasized. As First Deputy General Director of ANO Mikhail Gromov added, regular negotiations were held with ORD the day before, but a final decision regarding the location of the platforms in this zone has not yet been found.
The metro will still come to Kudrovo, although officials are ready to admit: the prospects for completing the inclined track and arranging the lobby depend solely on the pace of development of the St. Petersburg subway.
The government of the Leningrad region assures that the metro will still come to Kudrovo, although officials are ready to admit: the prospects for completing the inclined track and arranging the lobby depend solely on the pace of development of the St. Petersburg subway.
At the same time, in contrast to the sad experience of St. Petersburg, investors are already showing interest in the Kudrovo transport hub. In particular, according to officials, negotiations on participation in the construction of the facility are already underway with a number of large industrial and trading companies.
“For example, with those who intend to invest together with IKEA in an interchange on the Murmansk highway,” explains Mr. Moskvin.
According to the official, these same companies can participate in the construction of transport hubs. And regional and international road carriers are ready to invest in the construction of the bus station, from which the implementation of the entire project will begin. Finally, Russian Railways traditionally build their platforms themselves as part of investment programs.
Nevertheless, the project, which was considered by the City Council quite recently with victorious reports, was rejected and sent for revision. As the designers themselves reported, according to the contract, all design decisions must be agreed upon by June 1, 2017.
At the same time, the prospects for the construction of an interchange on the Murmansk highway with the participation of investors
At a meeting on February 20, the Leningrad Region City Council will consider a sketch of the layout of the Kudrovo transport hub. The facility will combine the lobby of the metro station of the same name, a parking lot for minibuses, a bus station for 400 passengers, an intercept parking lot and open parking lots. The cost of the project is estimated at 7 billion rubles; an investor will be attracted for its implementation. The most problematic part of the project is the metro station, the construction date of which has been repeatedly postponed and has not yet been precisely determined. At the same time, experts do not see the point in organizing a transport hub without a subway. And the regional government is working on an alternative transport connection with St. Petersburg - launching a high-speed train from Kudrovo to Ladozhsky station and continuing the tram line from the Ulitsa Dybenko metro station.
The press service of the government of the Leningrad region reported that the transport hub will be located on an area of more than 52 hectares on the border of Kudrovo and the Sverdlovsk urban settlement, adjacent to the M18 Kola highway and the Mega Dybenko hypermarket. On the territory of the transport hub it is planned to place a metro station lobby, a bus station for 400 passengers with 15 arrival and departure platforms, a stopping point for route transport and parking for it. The transport hub will also include commercial premises, an intercepting parking lot for 2.2 thousand cars, three open-air parking lots with a total capacity of 340 cars.
Regional authorities plan to start implementing the project no earlier than 2021. The cost of the project is estimated at more than 7 billion rubles. The regional government hopes to build the facility with the help of investors' funds. However, the latter are not yet available. As the press service of the Leningrad region administration clarified, the authorities want to prepare all the necessary documents for the arrival of the investor. In addition, a sketch of the transport hub layout is necessary in order to link the entire Kudrovo street and road network into a single traffic management scheme in order to understand in which direction to work further.
The layout sketch is being developed by the Directorate for the Development of the Transport System of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. Its director, Kirill Polyakov, told Kommersant that since the appearance of a metro in Kudrovo cannot be expected in the next five to seven years, the planning project includes the comprehensive development of all types of transport. “TPU is not only a metro, but the organization of movement of all types of transport, including railway. We cannot influence the construction of a metro station (its owner is St. Petersburg), but we can provide a place for a vestibule for it,” emphasized the deputy chairman of the regional government for construction Mikhail Moskvin.
Let us note that Smolny cannot yet say exactly when they will begin construction of the metro station in Kudrovo. In the concept for the development of the transport system of St. Petersburg until 2048, the extension of the “orange” metro line is planned for the period from 2023 to 2028. “Property and legal issues are now being discussed, as soon as they are resolved, it will be possible to talk about specific dates for the construction of a metro station in Kudrovo,” commented the Committee for the Development of Transport Infrastructure of St. Petersburg.
According to Vladimir Valdin, an expert at the Municipal Public Organization "City and Transport", there is no point in having a metro station in the Kudrovsky transport hub. But the expert doubts that the subway will come here in the next 10-15 years. It is worth noting that the construction of the metro in Kudrovo began in the late 1980s - after the Ulitsa Dybenko station, about a kilometer of tunnel was built, but in the end, due to lack of funding, the tunneling was frozen. “The most expensive part in metro construction is the construction of a station. In Kudrovo, difficulties may arise with the alienation of land, since this will be a facility at the junction of two federal subjects,” noted Vladimir Valdin.
According to him, the idea of a transport hub as a kind of transport solution is quite dubious and is more like a “trade and business hub”, where the main goal is to make money on trade. But in Kudrovo there is “Mega Dybenko” and, according to the expert, it makes no sense to build additional commercial space here. “What kind of improvement in transport communications can a stop provide? A transfer is convenient if it is distributed. But the transport hub contradicts this,” added Mr. Valdin.
At the same time, Kudrovo is being actively built up and needs to improve transport connections with St. Petersburg more than ever. According to Olga Trosheva, head of the Petersburg Real Estate CC, ten residential complexes are under construction in Kudrovo. The market volume is about 800 thousand sq. m. m of housing. Housing is being built by Setl City, Otdelstroy, Stroitelny Trust, Polis Group, TsDS, Arsenal-Real Estate, Mavis, Patriot-Neva, Investtorg and Prok. “The volume of supply is about 373 thousand sq. m of housing, which is 8.8% of the total supply of housing on the primary market in the mass market class in St. Petersburg and the suburbs of the Leningrad region,” added Olga Trosheva.
The authorities of the Leningrad region understand that the metro will not come to Kudrovo soon, so they decided to spread straws for themselves. According to a Kommersant source, as part of the complex transport scheme being developed, the regional authorities are considering the prospect of launching electric trains (perhaps it will even be a high-speed Lastochka) along the existing military road from Ladozhsky station to Kudrovo (Neva station). At the same time, North-West Suburban Passenger Company OJSC (founder of Russian Railways OJSC) is ready to carry out the reconstruction of the site. This information was confirmed by Mikhail Moskvin’s office. However, the passenger company did not respond to Kommersant's request. Also, according to Kommersant’s interlocutor, the issue of laying a tram line from the Ulitsa Dybenko metro station towards Novosaratovka is being considered. At the same time, it is supposed to be built at the expense of developers.
Lidia Gorborukova,
Marina Kostyukevich
Vsevolozhsk is preparing to intercept
The day before, in the regional administration, officials and representatives of North-West Suburban Passenger Company OJSC (NWPC) discussed issues of long-term cooperation. As Mikhail Moskvin’s office reported, the company’s management proposed to design and build an intercepting car park at one of the railway stations in Vsevolozhsk. The OJSC will finance the project, and the Leningrad region should consider allocating free land for these purposes.
In addition, representatives of the NWPC expressed their readiness to introduce a single electronic ticket of the “Podorozhnik” type in the Leningrad region and St. Petersburg.
Marina Kostyukevich
Leningrad region
12:10, 21.02.2017
The City Council of the Leningrad Region instructed to finalize the project of the Kudrovo transport hub
The start of construction is planned for 2021.
The design project for the Kudrovo transport hub (TPU) was sent for revision by decision of the Leningrad Region town planning council. The government did not like that the plan did not show exactly how passengers would use the hub. Deputy Chairman of the regional administration Mikhail Moskvin told reporters about this. The project is being developed by the Directorate for the Development of the Transport System of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.
The TPU project is being implemented in several stages. At the first stage, it is necessary to clearly mark the bus station, the future metro station and the railway station. However, the authors of the project did not indicate any connections between them, Moskvin said.
The government will announce the timing and investors for the construction of the bus station after the approval of the transport hub project. Mikhail Moskvin suggested that future carriers could finance the construction. The metro and railway station will be built together with St. Petersburg and Russian Railways.
The regional authorities are considering the option of building a tram line from the Ulitsa Dybenko metro station to the village of Novosaratovka. It can be organized during the first stage of construction of the transport hub. To launch the tram, it is necessary to reconstruct the existing intersection of Solidarity Avenue and Dybenko Street.
Earlier it was reported that the construction of the Kudrovo transport hub was estimated at seven billion rubles. The node will be located on an area of more than 52 hectares on the border of Kudrovo and the Sverdlovsk urban settlement, on the border with the Kola highway and the Mega-Dybenko hypermarket.
The hub will include a metro lobby, a stop and parking for minibuses, a bus station for 400 passengers with 15 platforms, intercepting parking lots for 2.2 thousand cars, three open parking lots for 340 cars. The project is financed by investors. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2021.
On February 15, it became known that IKEA is planning a new interchange in Kudrovo by June 1, 2017. The highway should improve the road situation in the village and simplify the connection between Kudrovo and the Murmansk Highway and the Ring Road. The company is ready to invest 700 million rubles in construction. Deputy Chairman of the Leningrad Region Government Mikhail Moskvin instructed the company to calculate the final cost of the road. After this, the region will begin searching for investors. Moskvin noted that the Leningrad region administration plans to involve developers in the construction who are building their houses in Kudrovo.
The project for planning the territory for the Kudrovo transport hub was approved by the City Council held today. However, it was approved conditionally, only to reserve land for future construction. It is impossible to design roads along it. And this is precisely the task of the regional authorities, since the Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko last week confirmed the city’s intention to extend the metro line to Kudrovo no later than 2025.
The city seems to be ready to meet the Leningrad region halfway in public transport projects, such as metro or tram, as long as it does not expand Kudrovsky Passage and Dybenko Street for the flow of cars from Kudrovo.
But in order to make a clear PPT, in the Leningrad region, according to Vice-Governor Mikhail Moskvin, they must know exactly where the station’s ground vestibule will be located. In the meantime, the Committee on Architecture and Urban Planning of the Leningrad Region only has a letter from the Lenmetrogiprotrans Institute, which indicates the most suitable site from the point of view of the designer.
The second problem is the lack of technical conditions for connecting Tsentralnaya Street to the Murmansk Highway (federal highway R-21 “Kola”). The first request to Rosavtodor was rejected on formal grounds.
In addition, the project for planning the territory for the transport hub is contradicted by the PPT developed last year by IKEA Centers Russia for the new exit to the Murmanskoye Highway. IKEA needs a normal entrance to the MEGA Dybenko shopping complex, so the company is ready to invest about 700 million rubles in the interchange. But it is still logical to connect the shopping center to the Kudrovo road network, and not vice versa. That is, the transport needs of the village residents, not businesses, should come to the fore. However, the authorities hope to combine both PPTs by calculating and planning vehicle flows for the entire territory up to the Ring Road.
Let us remind you that the Kudrovo transport hub, in addition to the metro station west of the MEGA Dybenko shopping center, assumes the appearance of a railway platform south of Kudrovsky Proezd, a parking lot for minibuses, a bus station, and an intercept parking lot. It is expected that by 2030, about 75,000 passengers will pass through the transport hub every day, and 147,000 people will use the metro station to enter and exit.
For the normal functioning of the transport hub, it is necessary to build before 2025 the second stage of the interchange with an overpass across the Kola highway, the continuation of Stroiteley Avenue to Murmanskoe Highway, a directed exit towards it from MEGA Dybenko and a local driveway to separate the flow of cars traveling along the Kola highway. to Kudrovo, from transit transport.