Tram route diagram. The most interesting routes for me
I discovered that if you have an unlimited metro pass and ground transport, the metro is not always the fastest and most successful way to get around Moscow. It is more convenient to combine all transports. Let's see how the tram compares favorably with its transport counterparts.
Study period: it extended from 05/10/2017 to 07/11/2017 (I didn’t study the route to Krylatskoye, then I’ll take a ride, not on purpose)
Tram 3 (the longest route at night 18.7 km) - Metro "Chistye Prudy" - Balaklava Avenue (at night - Academician Yangel Street)
Pros of the tram
- Sometimes convenient routes. Tram tracks can sometimes connect the points you need with a shorter route
- Stability of movement. Trams do not get stuck in traffic jams; they have separate tracks. Sometimes they stand at traffic lights, but in general they are more in motion
- Aesthetics. The metro runs underground, where it is not as interesting outside the window as outside the window of the tram, especially in clear weather
- Comfort. A tram rides smoother than a trolleybus or bus. Generally.
- Railroading. For railway lovers: the tram is more railway than the metro
- Environmentally friendly. The tram is healthier: it runs on electricity, so it doesn’t stink of gasoline or exhaust fumes
Tram route map
The most interesting routes for me:
They turned out to be B, 3, 7, 24, 46, 50, 11-half from Ostankino, 6 from Sokol to the Moscow Canal, 27, 17, and, judging by the water capacity around, you will like 31, 28 in Krylatskoye (but this is not checked I will, I will leave it to those who wish).
Moscow tram routes:
Tram A – Metro “Chistye Prudy” – Kaluzhskaya Square
The center of Moscow, interesting. But he got caught during road repairs. It happened that I had to stand in a traffic jam with cars.
Tram B - Sokolnicheskaya Zastava - Kursky Station
Interesting. Before Kursky railway station.
Tram 1 – Moskvoretsky Market – Academician Yangel Street
Tram 2 – Metro “Semenovskaya” – Children’s sanatorium
Subjectively, I didn’t really like the route. And chats in the lineup. I understood why the corners of trams are cut off, so that the cabin and stern are narrow - on turns, oncoming trams would collide at the corners if the trains were rectangular. The final stop “Children's Sanatorium” is a great place to start a bike ride around Losiny Island.
Tram 3 (longest route at night 18.7 km)— Metro “Chistye Prudy” — Balaklavsky Prospekt (at night - Academician Yangel Street)
24/7, runs at night. Today it is the longest tram route in Moscow at night: the travel distance is 18.7 km, the total time (including the night interval) is 1 hour 22 minutes.
Tram 4l — Metro “Ulitsa Podbelskogo” — Sokolnicheskaya Zastava — ring
Tram 4pr - Metro "Ulitsa Podbelskogo" - Sokolnicheskaya Zastava - ring
Tra Mwai 6 - metro station "Sokol" - Bratsevo ( Tram 6k - Eastern Bridge - Bratsevo)
Modern new compositions with accordion. From Sokol to the Moscow Canal is interesting. The journey to Tushino is already monotonous and takes a long time.
Tram 7 – Metro station “Rokossovskogo Boulevard” (until 2014 “Ulitsa Podbelskogo”) – Metro “Novoslobodskaya”
It goes smoothly, especially the first half of the way from the Rokossovsky Boulevard metro station.
Tram 8 – Novokonnaya Square – 3rd Vladimirskaya Street
Tram 9 — Metro “Belorusskaya” — MIIT
Tram 10 – Metro “Schukinskaya” – Tallinskaya street
Tram 11 - Ostankino - 16th Parkovaya Street
The first half is interesting, where there are small streets and Izmailovsky Park. Along the straight, long Pervomaiskaya Street it’s no longer particularly interesting.
Tram 12 – Entuziastov Passage – 2nd Mashinostroeniya Street
From Enthusiastov Highway to Dubrovka.
Tram 13 - Kalanchevskaya street - Children's sanatorium
It’s also not particularly interesting, it goes along a straight big street to 3 railway stations.
Tram 14 — Kaluga Square— Metro “University”
Tram 15 - Metro Sokol - Tallinnaya Street
Tram 16 – Serpukhovsky Val Street – Academician Yangel Street
Tram 17 – Ostankino – Medvedkovo
A pleasant route with new trains. I rode sitting sideways, like on the subway. Comfortable, you can do business on the road.
Tram 19 – Kalanchevskaya street – Metro “Novoslobodskaya”
Tram 20 - Kursky Station - Ugreshskaya Street
Tram 21 — Metro “Schukinskaya” — Tallinskaya street
Tram 23 – Metro “Sokol” – Mikhalkovo
Tram 24 - Kursky Station - Novogireevo
From Kursky Station I drove back to Lefortovo Park.
Tram 25 – Ostankino – Sokolnicheskaya Zastava
Tram 26 - Kaluzhskaya Square - Metro "University"
The residential areas are not very interesting. The tram I came across is not very new, although it has electricity, it smells of technical substances, which makes you feel sick and nauseous.
Tram 27 — Metro “Voikovskaya” — Metro “Dmitrovskaya”
Nice route. There is greenery, the streets are small, it does not go along the main road.
Tram 28 – Metro “Sokol” – Marshala Zhukov Avenue
Tram 29 – Children’s sanatorium – Bogorodskoye
Tram 30 – Mikhalkovo – Tallinskaya street
Tram 31 – Metro “Voikovskaya” – Marshal Zhukov Avenue
Tram 32 – Proezd Entuziastov – Metro “Partizanskaya”
Tram 33 — Metro “Rokossovsky Boulevard” — Sokolnicheskaya Zastava
Tram 34 - 16th Parkovaya Street - Novogireevo
Tram 34k - 16th Parkovaya Street - Semyonovskaya metro station
Tram 35 – Novokonnaya Square – Nagatino
Fine.
Tram 36 - Children's sanatorium - 3rd Vladimirskaya street
Tram 37 - Kalanchevskaya street - Novogireevo
Tram 38 — Metro “Proletarskaya” — Cheryomushki
Tram 39 — Metro “Chistye Prudy” — Metro “University”
Tram 40 – Ugreshskaya street – Novokonnaya square
Tram 43 – Metro “Semyonovskaya” – Ugreshskaya street
Tram 45 – Sokolnicheskaya Zastava – Novokonnaya Square
Tram 46 — Metro “Rokossovsky Boulevard” — Metro “Proletarskaya”
It’s nice from Ilyich Square to Proletarskaya - such a calm section.
Tram 47 – Kaluzhskaya Square – Nagatino
Tram 47k – Nizhniye Kotly – Nagatino
Tram 49 - Balaklava Avenue - Nagatino
Tram 50 - Kalanchevskaya street - Entuziastov Passage
This is more interesting. In general, routes along small streets are more interesting and beautiful. Look for these.
Results: To summarize, I would like to say that riding trams is a pleasant experience from time to time. They generally run smoother, especially in the north, where there are new trains. At first I assumed that it would be faster to travel by trams. It turned out that this is not so. In most cases, the meter will come out faster. Also, the ground public is more cheerful and positive than the crowds in the subway.
The capital's authorities have grandiose plans for the development of the tram network in Moscow. This includes the restoration of some previously dismantled tracks, and even the extension beyond the Moscow Ring Road. There are very real routes, but there are also absolutely fantastic ones. Today I would like to look at a very specific project: tram routes, leading to Biryulyovo Western. The fact is that public hearings are currently being held about a new tram line to the area. As is often the case with us, most of the people whom this topic primarily concerns know nothing about it. Let's take a comprehensive look at the details of this project and discuss its strengths and weaknesses, as well as the difficulties that arose during the design. Here, in fact, is the diagram of the future tram line in Biryulyovo.
But before moving on to discussing the topic of the tram, I would like to briefly discuss the main transport problems of Biryulyovo, especially since they are typical for so many districts of the capital. Western Biryulyovo has one exit to the Moscow Ring Road (a second one was recently opened, freight traffic has left, but nothing fundamentally has changed) and one directly to Moscow, through Podolskikh Kursantov Street. There are no other exits. Travel to the west, east and north from the area is prevented railways. A similar situation (only a mirror image) is typical for East Biryulyovo: one exit to the Moscow Ring Road and Lipetskaya Street leading to the center.
This is my favorite Biryulyovo Western 
Without interrupting their work for the traditional weekend, already on Saturday the cars of the Moscow tram route № 20 back on line. They took passengers along new route. And this is only the first step in adjusting the next group of metropolitan rail routes.
“Twenty” was the first to be changed
From December 23, 2017, the tram route № 20 "Art. Ugreshskaya - Kursky Station" has been seriously updated. It has been switched to daily operation, movement intervals have been reduced, last flights began to leave two and a half hours later.
But the main thing is the change in route. Traffic on the section from the Museum named after. Andrey Rublev to Ugreshskaya MCC station filmed. Instead, the cars are directed along Andronevsky Proezd and Volochaevskaya Street to Krasnokazarmennaya Square. Departure from Kursky Station daily from 5:36 to 23:36, from Krasnokazarmennaya Square - from 5:48 to 23:48. Movement intervals are nine minutes, in the early morning and late evening hours - up to 12 minutes.
Route popularity № 20 significantly decreased a decade and a half ago after the opening of the first stage of the Lublin metro line, which ended in 1999 with the launch of the Dubrovka station. Traffic intervals on the route during certain hours gradually increased to 40 minutes. At the same time, the connection between Volochaevskaya Street and Kursky Station and transfer hub of the three stations of the Moscow metro, it turned out to be in demand every time it spontaneously arose during temporary changes to tram routes. Locals They have been asking for a long time to make a permanent route for them, but they were finally heard only very recently.
Changing route № 20 - only the first in an already planned chain of optimizations of eight metropolitan tram routes, which have already been approved in the city register of routes.
Immediate plans
It has already been decided that the route № 3 “Balaklavsky Ave. – The Chistye Prudy metro will be extended along Chertanovskaya Street to the final station “Ulitsa Akademika Yangelya” along the night route. No. 3n, now operating six nights a week, except the nights from Sunday to Monday. At the same time, the production of wagons on the route will cease № 16 "St. Academician Yangel - Serpukhov Val.”
Will mutually exchange final stops routes №№ 34 “16th Parkovaya St. - Novogireevo" and 36 "Children's sanatorium - 3rd Vladimirskaya street." Route № 34 will be shortened to 3rd Vladimirskaya Street, and the route № 36 , on the contrary, will be extended to the final station “Novogireevo”.
It is planned to shorten the tram route to the Semenovskaya metro station instead of the Partizanskaya metro station № 32 "Etc. Enthusiasts - Partizanskaya Metro. And the route № 12 "Etc. Enthusiastov - 2nd st. Mechanical Engineering", on the contrary, will extend along Entuziastov Highway, Ave. Budyonny, Izmailovskoe highway, st. Izmailovsky Val, Shcherbakovskaya St., 2nd St. Izmailovsky Menagerie to the Partizanskaya metro station.
After the change, route cars will be able to drive closer to the lobby of the Sokolniki metro station, where it was in early December. № 25 "Ostankino - Sokolnicheskaya outpost." The route will be extended along 2nd Polevoy lane, st. Stromynka, Babaevskaya st. and st. Sailor's Silence to Bolshoy Matrossky lane. with a turn through the tram depot named after. Rusakova.
The route will be slightly straightened № 46 "Metro Boulevard Rokossovsky - Metro Proletarskaya." His entry to Malaya Semenovskaya Street, Semenovsky Lane will be canceled. and Izmailovskaya st. when going to the Proletarskaya metro station.
What else is being prepared?
Mass deliveries of three-section 71-931M Vityaz-M cars, of which there were already 110 in Moscow by the end of 2017, are encouraging metropolitan transport workers to review the Moscow tram route network. Capacious carriages are sent to routes with high passenger traffic. After the complete transfer of the tram depot named after. Bauman to service the “Vityaz”, they will begin to arrive at other depots – Oktyabrskoye and them. Rusakova. The separate network of the Krasnopresnensky depot, which previously received 70 Pesa cars, will remain unchanged for now. And on the main network, the appearance of new cars will cause inevitable changes in routes. Some of them will even change their depot of registration - it will depend on the type of rolling stock.
Unsuitable for Vityaz operation, the oldest surviving tram depot named after. Apakova will continue to work with traditional single-section cars and coupled cars based on the Tatra T3 model. “Short” cars will also be worked on at the site of the Tramway Repair Plant, which is being returned to work.
And for work with new modern cars, another territory occupied by the Logistics Base of the State Unitary Enterprise “Mosgortrans” on Ugreshskaya Street will be adapted. A tram maintenance and repair facility will appear here, with a storage area for 150 three-section trams. Project financing is included in the Targeted Investment Program of the city of Moscow. A competition for the design of a new transport facility has already been announced.
Mass production of three-section cars with increased current consumption in the capital requires ensuring a stable power supply and modernizing the contact network. To identify “weak points,” Mosgortrans ordered work to calculate the power supply of the contact network. However, not a single applicant showed up for the competition held in December. The capital's tram operators revealed plans for further changes in routes to the competition participants. All calculations needed to be done for a promising route network, which even included some areas just being prepared for construction.
So, according to preliminary information, from the direction of Akademika Yangelya Street to Biryulyovo-Zapadnoye they are going to redirect the route instead of the Moskvoretsky Market № 1 , and to connect with areas closer to the center, extend the route from Balaklava Avenue № 49 .
They want to leave the routes unchanged No. 4 (right And left), 7, 11, 13, 14, 26, 29, 35, 36, 37, 39, 47. Routes may be redundant in the new network No. 2, 9, 20, 32, 34k, 38, 40, 45, B– they are compensated by other variable routes. Some of them will almost double in size.
The longest route (26.9 km long) should be № 12 . It will connect 16th Parkovaya Street and Cheryomushki, completely absorbing the route № 38 . The route in the projected network will be slightly shorter (23 km long) № 25 . According to preliminary information, in this form it will connect Medvedkovo and Kursky Station, passing through Oleniy Val Street, Baumanskaya and Volochaevskaya streets and absorbing part of the route routes No. B And 45 .
The length of the route will change slightly № 8 – from 9.9 to 9.4 km. Previously, it was planned to run it from 3rd Vladimirskaya Street instead of Novokonnaya Square to Kursky Station along the restored line, but the decision to revive this line has so far been blocked by local social activists.
Route № 19 from Kalanchevskaya Street instead of Novovorotnikovsky Lane they will be directed to Tverskaya Zastava, and the route will be extended along its old route № 50 . Such measures will make it possible to refuse to use the route № 9 . Route № 24 from Kursky Station, instead of Novogireev, it will only go to Entuziastov Proezd. The route will be shortened even further № 34 - instead of the previous 17.7 km from its route, only 8.06 km will be left, which is approximately equal to the distance along the route of the current route No. 34k from 16th Parkovaya Street to Malaya Semenovskaya Street. Route routes will become longer №№ 43 (18.2 km instead of 15.4 km), 46 (17.0 km instead of 16.7) and A(16.0 km instead of 10.2).
Note that with the existing network, “Annushka” will not be able to increase in size that much. The location of all existing tram rings allows you to organize a route of either greater or lesser length. Apparently, plans for the legendary capital route were also drawn up taking into account new construction (the line on Academician Sakharov Avenue, or a turn from the center to the Novospassky Bridge on Paveletskaya Square).
Vityaz-M cars are going to be used to fully equip the routes №№ 3, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 17, 26, 36, 37, 39, 50 . The remaining routes on the main network will continue to be operated by single carriages. And only on the route № 1 will maintain the operation of couplers of two Tatra T3 type cars in a multi-unit system.
However, it is known that the more long-term plans are, the more all kinds of changes can occur with their implementation. Therefore, with greater confidence we can expect in the coming months only those changes that are already included in the city register.
Let us remember that in September tram service to Tverskaya Zastava and three auxiliary tram routes were opened in Moscow.