On 10 April, Sergei Sobyanin, the Moscow Mayor, visited the construction site of the traffic interchange at the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road with Lipetskaya Street. MSU-1 GC acts as the general contractor for the complex transport hub refurbishment project.
The Mayor decided to revise the completion date for the project, bringing it forward. He sees the interchange as a bottleneck for the Moscow Ring Road and the traffic in the Biryulyovo Zapadnoye and Biryulyovo Vostochnoye Districts as very heavy and congested.
Alexey Kozlov, First Vice President of MSU-1 GC, is confident that the construction will be completed by the end of 2023. Under the contract, the deadline is April 2024, and the construction is progressing as scheduled.
“All that is left to do is lay asphalt concrete pavement and paint surface markings – and we will be ready to launch the road. Installation works were complicated as we had to install blocks and beams without blocking the Moscow Ring Road. Starting from April, the road construction work has been in full swing to complete as much as possible during the season,” said Roman Masolkin, head of the project at MSU-1 GC, on-air at Moscow 24.
Refurbishment of the Lipetskaya Street traffic interchange is part of the programme to upgrade the Moscow Ring Road, under which obsolete cloverleaf interchanges are being replaced with multilevel structures with directional slip roads and higher-capacity tunnels.
This project is actually the final step in a series of upgrades that has lasted several years to improve the traffic situation in the Biryulyovo District and adjacent areas in the south of Moscow. Previously, as part of these efforts, Lipetskaya Street was refurbished and linked to Podolskikh Kursantov Street and Varshavskoye Highway, and a new traffic interchange was opened at the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road with Podolskikh Kursantov Street.
The results are significantly improved transport accessibility to the Biryulyovo District and increased throughput capacity for Lipetskaya Street – one of the main outbound arterial roads in the south of Moscow, connecting the M-4 Don Highway with Kashirskoye Highway, Southern Rocade, and, in the future, the Moscow High-Speed Diameter.
At the moment, the Company is working on seven overpasses, one tunnel, and three pedestrian crossings at once and has already opened slip roads from Moscow to the Moscow Ring Road and from the Moscow Ring Road to the city centre. The list of ongoing works includes the installation of modular steel beams for the overpass, the construction of reinforced concrete tunnel structures, the installation of modular steel trusses for beams, and the construction of cast-in-place concrete entrances to pedestrian crossings. In addition, MSU-1 GC specialists are replacing utility systems, building four wastewater treatment facilities, and conducting road construction works. At the moment, construction for the project is almost 50% completed.
Refurbishment works continue at three interchanges of the Moscow Ring Road – with Altufyevskoye Highway, Lipetskaya Street, and Verkhniye Polya and Kapotnya Streets.
For more details on the progress of the traffic interchange project, watch the Moscow 24 report and see theofficial Telegram channel of the Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin..
*Cover photos: Mikhail Kolobayev
