Why is the reconstruction of the Garden Ring going so slowly. No random blockages

The streets of the Garden Ring, Tverskaya and Bolshaya Lubyanka, Tverskaya Zastava Square and Lubyanskaya Square and most of the boulevards are open for pedestrians and motorists.

The main construction and installation works under the My Street program have been completed in almost 100 urban areas. Among them are the main street of the city - Tverskaya (from Nastasinsky Lane to Triumphalnaya Square), Tverskaya Zastava Square, Lubyanskaya Square, Bolshaya Lubyanka Street, Garden Ring, Boulevard Ring and most of the embankments. Temporary wooden flooring was removed there, protective barriers separating work areas were removed, and temporary signs warning of repairs were dismantled.

Now all these streets are completely open to pedestrians and cars. During the repair, cable ducts were laid on them, where overhead wires were removed, and engineering networks and storm sewers were repaired and updated in those areas where it was necessary. The sidewalks of the central streets, squares, boulevards and embankments were expanded and lined with granite tiles. New asphalt and markings were made on the roads, the width of the lanes was optimized to standard values, and the so-called bottlenecks (bottlenecks) were removed where possible.

The main construction and installation works at most facilities have been completed. However, the commissioning of street lighting systems and architectural and artistic lighting is still ongoing. In addition, installation of navigation steles and signs, benches, trash cans and flowerbeds, a tub for trees, repair of the socles of buildings, as well as installation of stop pavilions for public transport, drainage systems and a number of other related works. As told in the complex of urban economy, this does not interfere with either pedestrians or motorists. And the work will be completed by the end of September - mid-October. Then the landscaping of the streets will begin - the planting of large-sized trees and lilacs, for which late autumn is also suitable for transplanting.

“We plan to plant trees in late autumn, from November to December, when they are at rest. But most shrubs will be planted from March to May next year: they take root better after the winter, when the temperature stays above zero,” the city economy complex said.

As part of the My Street program, more than five thousand trees will be planted in the capital's squares and streets, as well as at the entrances to the city. More than 40 addresses were chosen for new plants. Birch, oak, elm, linden, maple and chestnut trees will appear in the landscaped areas. In addition, mountain ash, apple trees, bird cherry, shadberry, crimson and lilac will be planted there. These are exactly those trees that take root well in the urban environment and have previously been used for planting the streets of the capital. The most stringent requirements will be imposed on suppliers: they will not only have to deliver and plant the plants in the ground, but also take care of them afterwards. From 2017, the warranty period for each tree will be three years. All work, including the replacement of non-rooted plants, will be included in the contract price. At the same time, the cost of landscaping landscaped streets this year will not exceed last year. The supplier will be fully responsible for their adaptation to the urban environment.

After urban repairs, the traffic pattern has changed on almost two dozen streets in the center of Moscow. There were six new dedicated lanes intended only for public transport, new parking lots for tourist buses were equipped. New U-turns were built on Prechistensky Gate Square, Olimpiyskiy Prospekt and Zubovsky Boulevard. Infrastructure for the Kitai-Gorod transport park was created on Slavyanskaya Square. In addition, on the Boulevard Ring for the passage of cars, one lane was organized in each direction. And they made a dedicated line for public transport. Where trams run, the tracks were isolated with a granite board, and safe landing areas were made for passengers. Everything is aimed at making the city center more comfortable and accessible for public transport, and convenient walking routes leading to the sights of Moscow.

In 2017, within the framework of the program, the improvement of streets and city squares with a total length of 65 kilometers is being carried out.

16.05.2017

Reconstruction of the Garden Ring will reduce the income of tenants of retail outlets

Some tenants, primarily small start-ups, will not be able to survive the three-month period of reconstruction of the Garden Ring and will be forced to move, Moscow brokers say

The reconstruction of the Garden Ring, which will last until the end of summer, will reduce the income of tenants of retail premises by at least 15%. Analysts of the brokerage company Colliers International shared this forecast with RBC Real Estate. Work on the improvement of the second segment of the Garden Ring (the first was reconstructed last year) began at the end of April.

According to the consulting company CBRE, now a quarter of all commercial space on the first line of the Garden Ring is occupied by companies in the field of beauty and health: beauty salons, nail and massage studios, and dental centers. “For this category of operators, their clients, as a rule, are not random passers-by, people go to most salons purposefully and even to a specific specialist. Accordingly, the reconstruction will have a minimal impact on this group,” says Oksana Kopylova, Deputy Director of Market Research at CBRE.

But part of the spontaneous traffic may be lost by cafes and restaurants located here, which account for about a quarter of all commercial space in the Garden Ring zone, she adds.

Analysts interviewed by RBC-Nedvizhimost admit that some tenants, primarily small start-up companies, will not be able to survive the three-month period of reconstruction of the Garden Ring and will be forced to move from here to neighboring streets.

“With the start of full-scale reconstruction of the Garden Ring, the cost of one parking hour increased to 300 rubles, so many motorists switched to the metro. Business reacts painfully to such changes - scaffolding blocks signs, some profiles are closed for the period of repair or a period when customers and buyers actually have no access to the entrance group. The burden is especially heavy for small networks with a small share of the profitability risk coverage of the network point at the expense of other brand players”, - confirms this forecast, the leading consultant of the retail real estate department of Cushman & Wakefield Maryana Matueva.

Today, the average rental rate in the Garden Ring zone, according to CBRE, is about 70 thousand rubles. for 1 sq. m per year. At the same time, individual premises, for example, in the area of Smolenskaya Square, can cost 120-170 thousand rubles. for 1 sq. m per year. In 2016, tenants actively discussed and lobbied for a clause in the lease agreements providing for a significant discount (up to 40% of the rent per month) or a net percentage of the turnover during the renovation period, or even rental holidays for the same period.

However, the owners were not ready to meet such measures - professional landlords preferred to wait out the reconstruction period than to provide additional benefits and bear the risks of the partners' business. As a result, by autumn, when construction work on Sadovoye was completed, the share of vacant space in the street retail segment on this highway reached 17.6%, which was an absolute record in the entire history of the market, analysts from the international consulting company Knight Frank found out.

More often than others, the reconstruction factor affects the decisions of the expansion of new networks, the interlocutors of RBC Real Estate note. Well-known and experienced players continue to develop in the presence of promising retail space potential. Visual improvement of streets with low pedestrian conversion does not affect the decision of tenants to open new ones trading platforms. Retailers still ask for high conversion plus parking, rare players are ready to play the role of an anchor tenant and generate street retail traffic (both pedestrian and car) on their own. Maryana Matueva believes that this season the fluctuation of rental rates for newly concluded contracts will not exceed 10% of the current figures.

After the reconstruction of the Garden Ring, interest in commercial premises located on it will grow by at least 10%, Colliers International predicts. “We expect changes in the profiles of Garden Ring tenants - the emergence of new network and individual catering operators, impulse demand stores focused on pedestrian traffic. Now vacant premises on Sadovoye are increasingly filled with catering companies, grocery operators, drogerie stores, while previously most of the areas of this shopping corridor were occupied by banking service operators,” says Ekaterina Podlesnykh.

According to Knight Frank's forecast, there is no point in waiting for a change in the profile of tenants on the Garden Ring in the near future; the main city highway will react to the current improvement with any changes no earlier than in 1–1.5 years.

Recall that this year, within the framework of the My Street program, it is planned to reconstruct three quarters of the Garden Ring - from Dolgorukovskaya Street to Zubovskaya Square, plus adjacent streets, squares and squares. In 2016, the section from Smolenskaya-Sennaya to Dolgorukovskaya Street was landscaped.

The Garden Ring is almost standing this year, starting from April - repairs are underway as part of the My Street program. But the capital's drivers suffer for good reason: in the Center for Organization traffic they promise that after the completion of the work, the road will go faster than before.

Let me remind you that work in the spring, with the beginning of the repair season, immediately began on 52.7 km of roads. Rush hours within Sadovoe began to last instead of two hours for three. The average speed in the center fell from 25 to 15 km per hour. Until now, despite the fact that it is already August, when roads in Moscow are usually free, traffic jams persist in the center.

But after the completion of the repair "My street" average speed on the Garden Ring should grow by 5-10%. Artur Shahbazyan, the deputy head of the CDDC, stated this. Such a forecast was obtained from the results of transport modeling. The department explained that after the reconstruction on Sadovoye, the number of lanes will change and there will be fewer of them in the widest places. "The capacity of the Garden Ring as a whole is determined by the narrowest places - these are tunnels and bridges, and there have always been and will remain three lanes," said Arthur Shakhbazyan. uniform, the average speed increases, and the congestion itself becomes shorter.

The number of lanes on the reconstructed Garden Ring will change, which will make it possible to remove "bottlenecks" at the entrance to tunnels and bridges

In addition, reducing the number of lanes in wide areas will reduce the number of lane changes. Before the start of the repair, in order to leave the adjacent street and get into the tunnel or to the U-turn, it was necessary to change lanes on a short section of the road through several lanes at once in heavy traffic.

Let me remind you that repairs on Sadovoye are being carried out almost along its entire length, with the exception of the section from Dolgorukovskaya Street to Novy Arbat, where it was completed last year. The experience turned out to be successful. According to the observations of drivers, for example, the exit from Barrikadnaya Street towards the Arbat became much more comfortable due to the appearance of dividers there and a decrease in the number of lanes that had to be crossed to enter the tunnel.

"Congestion is systemic - when demand exceeds supply, that is, more drivers are trying to drive along the street than it can accommodate. And random, for example, due to an accident," Alexander Kulakov, director of the transport modeling center at the Institute of Transport Economics and Transportation, told RG. HSE policy - Against systemic congestion, the work within the framework of the reconstruction of Sadovoe is powerless, therefore, the bottlenecks were not expanded, and when optimizing the number of lanes in certain sections of the highway, one can only make a wide, but short traffic jam, narrow, but long. the number of congestions and increase speed - reduce the number of drivers who would like to pass here As for random congestion, reconstruction can be very effective if it creates junctions with canalized traffic, convenient entrances and exits, thereby increasing the level of safety and reducing the number of accidents. The consequence of this is that the occurrence of accidental traffic jams is prevented."

Meanwhile

Lubyansky passage and Prechistenskaya embankment will be closed next weekend. As RG was informed in the press service of the department of capital construction, cable ducts will be laid there and engineering networks will be rebuilt. Passage through Lubyansky passage will be closed at 0.00 12.08 until five in the morning on Monday, August 14. The section of Prechistenskaya embankment from Novokrymsky to Soimonovsky proezd will be inaccessible for cars from 23.00 today, August 10, until 02.00 13.08.

Improvement of the central part of Moscow under the My Street program. Over the summer, the authorities plan to renovate the section from Dolgorukovskaya Street to Zubovskaya Square, along with the adjacent squares - that is, three-quarters of the Garden Ring. The site design is being developed by 12 Russian and foreign bureaus, including Snøhetta, Villes & Passages, Michel Desvigne, Latz + Partner and Rhizome group. The Village looked at how "My Street" will change the central ring highway.

Daria Paramonova

CEO Strelka Architects

At first, the project involved much more pedestrian crossings. But later we decided that it was too early to introduce ground crossings on such an intensive highway everywhere, and some of them were removed from the project. As a result, test crossings will appear on Zubovskaya Square, in front of the RIA Novosti building, where they will also make a traffic light and a road pocket, and on Zemlyanoy Val, near the Kursky railway station.

main topic the new reconstruction of Sadovoye is a linear planting of sidewalks along the road. Now there is a dull fence along the Atrium shopping center that protects the sidewalk from cars. Now the fences will be removed there, instead they will make a slightly higher protective board at the curb and plant trees near the Atrium.

A temporary skate park will be made under the overpass near the Park Kultury metro station, it will be made of lightweight structures, and not of concrete, as originally planned. In the project, we tried to rethink the spaces under the overpass, which still perform an unsightly and economic function, even if these places are popular with people. The skate park is one of our suggestions for what can be brought to aggressively urban spaces. If you like the idea, we will offer to make retail outlets. True as long as it all falls under a large number of prohibitions. At the Gravity Overpass, for example, there is a large parking lot for special equipment, which we still cannot physically move somewhere.

Smolensky boulevard, project

Smolensky boulevard

According to the plan of the designers, linear gardens will be planted here in two rows, which will create a “buffer zone” between car traffic and the sidewalk. The pedestrian zone will be expanded, and a backup to the linear parking will also be created.

The courtyard at 17 Smolensky Boulevard, building 1 is located between two important nodes of the Garden Ring - Zubovskaya and Smolenskaya squares. It will be landscaped by Russian architects from the Kosmos bureau. Two small symmetrical gardens with benches in the depths of the green will appear here.

Zubovsky boulevard, project

Zubovsky boulevard

Now the boulevard is the widest part of the Garden Ring, with 16 car lanes. Further, the traffic narrows to 10 lanes, which causes a “bottleneck”. In the reconstruction project on Zubovsky Boulevard, the number of lanes will also be reduced to ten. In the free space, the architectural bureau VEGA will expand the pedestrian zone. More than 40 trees will be planted in front of the building of the RIA Novosti agency.

In the new project, a landscape park will be laid out on Zubovskaya Square. And the French bureau Villes & Passages will create a linear boulevard.

Valovaya street, project

Gross street

Square in front of Muzeon, Zhitnaya and Valovaya streets

The area in front of the Muzeon is called “spontaneous” by the architects; it connects the flow of people from the parking lot and bus stops to the main entrance. New project provides for the expansion of sidewalks here up to 13 meters, the planting of fifty trees and the creation of small lawn hills. A park with lilies of the valley and birches and paths of three different colors that lead to three different zones will be laid out on the site of the wasteland square on Zhitnaya.

Dobryninskaya metro station and Serpukhovskaya square

At the Dobryninskaya metro station, the British from the Gross.Max bureau will arrange a large pedestrian space with square benches, additional lighting and a wooden gazebo.

Zatsepsky Val

Now on four sections of Zatsepsky Val - four different kind paving, allocated by recreation areas, and areas for the placement of cafe terraces. The architects promise to recreate here a "single promenade" and linear gardens along the roadway. A historical front garden will be restored in front of the Bakhrushin Museum.

Alley in front of the Atrium, project

Alley in front of the Atrium

Zemlyanoy Val, Atrium and Nikoloyamskaya street

Garden Ring, Kursk railway station and the shopping and entertainment center "Atrium" form an important transport hub, which is called "significant" in the project. The sidewalk here will be widened by several meters, trees will be planted, space will be created for restaurant verandas, and the fence of the Botkins' city estate will be restored.

According to the project of the Dutch bureau Juurlink En Geluk and Strelka Design Bureau, a small square area. The Dutch came up with their own design of street furniture and offered to create a bike workshop here.

At 44, Zemlyanoy Val Street, there is a "hidden space" with an Italian-style staircase. Strelka proposes to set up a courtyard here - especially for schoolchildren (the Chkalov school is located nearby). Spontaneous parking in the courtyard will be replaced with a site with colored asphalt, shrubs and flowers.

Square in front of the Krasnye Vorota metro station, project

Square of the Krasnye Vorota metro station

Parking in front of the entrance to the metro will be transferred to the surrounding areas. And the public space will be decorated with hills that will frame architectural monuments. Land crossings, which are now spontaneous there, will be made safe.

Sukharevskaya area

Thanks to the German architects Topotek, it will be possible to cross Sretenka Street without going down the underpass. After reconstruction, there will be recreation areas. Green hills will also appear on the square.

Delegatskaya street, project

Delegatskaya Street

Sadovaya-Karetnaya and Sadovaya-Samotechnaya streets

The architects set the task of making Sadovaya-Karetnaya Street not just a transit street, but also attractive for walking. The linear gardens will also form a buffer zone between the roadway and the pedestrian area. At the neighboring Sadovaya-Samotechnaya, instead of a parking lot, a lawn will be laid out and flowers and trees will be planted.

The area in front of the Obraztsov Theater will also be landscaped. In addition, tourist buses will stop here. At the intersection of Likhov Lane and Sadovoe Koltso, after reconstruction, a chamber recreation area and a flower garden will appear. One contact phone number was indicated.

Ivan Ezhikov

All contracts were signed, the responsible departments did not give a damn about the publicity of the scandal. The contractors have already started work, and fences are already in place for the reconstruction segments. Official responses from law enforcement I haven't received it yet, it's been a while.

In addition, the required certificate of admission to construction work for "Technoconcept" was issued just a few days before the submission of documents for the competition. From this, the blogger concludes that the company does not have the experience that organizers require from auction participants. Despite this, "Technoconcept" was admitted to trading. Daria Chugui was unable to provide The Village with an operational comment.

Photo: KB Strelka

What is the Garden Ring? Is this a street? No, because it is impossible to live normally on it. Maybe it's the road? Neither - there is public transport, there are shops in the houses and cyclists ride. So what kind of animal is this? It's just a sea of asphalt.

It is the sea and asphalt. I wanted to draw an analogy with the Dead Sea, but it is more pleasant there than on the Garden Ring. Fortunately, cosmetic work will be carried out on the ring this year: the roadway will be narrowed, doubles will be made, landscaping will be done, and public transport will be pulled to the surface.

The other day, reconstruction projects were posted on the government procurement portal, including the organization of traffic after completion of work. I propose to discard questions of price and quality of work, and look at the ring from the point of view of urban mobility and the quality of public spaces in the city.

Pedestrians and public transport

I have combined these two categories for a reason - they are interconnected: a pedestrian becomes a passenger only at the moment of entering the vehicle. That is why the term "last mile" exists - this is the distance from public transport to the final point of the route (and from the starting point to transport, respectively). Therefore, good public transport requires comfortable and safe street access routes.

Now there is an aggressive environment for pedestrians on the Garden Ring: noise, poor air quality, dirt, the inability to cross the street normally, and so on. The picture is similar with public transport: there is no dedicated lane, due to tunnels and overpasses, stops are located far from metro stations and other hubs. In general, everything is sad. What will change?

There will be new ground pedestrian crossings across Sadovoe on Zubovsky Boulevard opposite RIA Novosti, Serpukhovskaya Square, near Dolgorukovskaya and Tatarskaya streets. This is good.

here the ground crossing appeared thanks to a new turn

Tatar

Under the square there is a network of underground passages - it was impossible to orient yourself correctly the first time. For new transitions in this place I want to kiss!

a new crossing on the left, after the introduction of through traffic for buses, it was a sin not to make a normal path for people

And the passage at Karetny Ryad will be notably ennobled:

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Unfortunately everything. Someday we will duplicate all the undergrounds on Sadovoe with ground crossings, but for now, this is how it is. The most annoying thing is the transition at the Kursk railway station - every third person is there with bags, there is a traffic light at the top, but still everyone is made to suffer:

I suggest to every defender of underground passages to run with bags/bicycles/children through them. I think the rubbish will quickly get out of my head.

With new pedestrian crossings through secondary streets, it is a little better: Dolgorukovskaya, Sretenka, Mira Ave., Kalanchevskaya, St. Basmannaya, V. Syromyatnicheskaya, Vorontsovo Pole.

Sadovoe and St. Basmannaya

In general, slowly progress is being made. But for the underground passage through the exit to the Yauza, I want to scold for a very long time:

It would seem, why not do it well and remove the unnecessary underground through 2 lanes? Moreover, all other exits are normal. I just worked side by side and suffered a lot:

There will be new public areas for pedestrians. The biggest changes will be at the Krasnye Vorota metro station, now there is spontaneous parking:

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And at Gorky Park:

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We are waiting for a big breakthrough in the work of public transport - bringing buses to the surface at Serpukhovskaya, Oktyabrskaya and Taganskaya squares. To do this, they will make new punctures, mini-dedicated lanes and stops. And all in order to bring stops closer to metro exits:

Oktyabrskaya, the trajectory of public transport is highlighted in purple

In the future, I would like to ground transport on Novy Arbat and Triumphalnaya Square.

mini-highway in front of a traffic light on Zubovskaya street

As a bonus, a new link appeared at the Paveletsky railway station - the bus will be able to immediately turn to it from the inside of the ring. Now we have to make a 2 km rerun for a U-turn near Serpukhovskaya Square:

the trajectory of movement is highlighted in blue

It is a pity that the tram triangle will not be restored so that trams from the Paveletsky station can turn to Clean ponds(and vice versa).

Spoiler for Sretenka: there will be an anti-hair highlighted strip in the center. More precisely, she will return back - she was already there. A good transfer hub will appear near the Sukharevskaya metro station:

An unnecessary understudy will be removed from Samotechnaya Square and public transport will be brought to the main course - less rebuilding and loss of time for maneuvers:

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Cyclists

Bike lanes? This is for you in the park. Zero.

Personal transport

There are two for drivers. good news: the strip of the ring will be aligned and doubles with parking will be made.

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Due to the constant changes in the number of stripes, bottlenecks and jumping movement were obtained. What is the transition from Zubovsky Boulevard with 17 lanes to 7 lanes on the Crimean bridge. Now everywhere there will be 5 lanes of the main course in each direction (except for bridges and tunnels), due to which the traffic will travel calmer and more evenly. It was possible to narrow even down to three lanes - exactly three lanes in all tunnels and overpasses, that is, these are the narrowest places on the ring. It is these bottlenecks that determine throughput the whole ring.

In short, the ring should run better, despite the decline in the number of lanes.

understudies with parking will appear in wide places - Sadovoye becomes one step closer to a normal street.

I have already partially said about the new U-turn in RIA Novosti. As well as about parking at the Red Gate and Gorky Park. In the latter case, it was removed due to the permanent tail, which blocked one lane on the ring. As far as I know, there are plans to make parking somewhere else, but for now it will be possible to park at MUZEON.

All turns from Sadovoe were given normal radii - now even without a brick sign it will be subconsciously clear that there is no turn here:

In general, adequate rounding helps calm traffic, so 90-degree turns are a good solution for streets. Smoother turns are relevant on the highway, not in the city.

Conclusion

Maybe I will repeat myself a little, but I really miss: a dedicated lane on the Garden Ring; duplication of underground passages by ground ones; new links and traffic lights; bike paths; tram; Sukharev tower.

Serpukhovskaya Square turned out very well - this is a breakthrough. The return of public transport to the surface is also a big deal, this need has been talked about since the construction of these same tunnels and flyovers.

If now Sadovoye Koltso is negative in terms of the usefulness of the street, then after reconstruction it will take a place between 3 and 4. Yes, the ring will still not become a full-fledged street - the balance is heavily outweighed in favor of cars with all the ensuing negative factors.

In 10 years, when overpasses and tunnels begin to be demolished, public transport and bike paths are given priority, the street will begin to live in a new way, and photographs of Zubovsky Boulevard of the 2016 model will be shown to children along with a film about Frankinstein.

We will start the demolition from the Park of Culture - the first overpass appeared there - it will be the first to go under the bucket! And on Samotechnaya Square we will make a Moscow