Third Ring Road (Moscow)

The Third Transport Ring (Russian Третье транспортное кольцо / Tretje Transportnoje Kolzo ) is a ring road in the Russian capital Moscow. It was completed in 2003 and supplemented in its function as a quick- traffic ring the inner city garden and the ring surrounding the city ring road MKAD.

General

The third transport ring is approximately 36 km long, of which around 19 km on bridges and 5 kilometers in a total of three tunnels run. The width of the carriageway is at least four lanes. An eight-lane expansion is realized only in heavily loaded sections. In addition, emergency lane constitute an exception, so it already comes to traffic disruption for small body damage or breakdown. The motorway ring has a total of 17 connection points. As well as the outer ring road MKAD - but not the inner city garden ring - has the Third Transport Ring, neither level nor at-grade intersections pedestrian crossings. However, on ascents and descents, as also found on the MKAD, crosswalk to cross this. Thus, the Third Transport Ring not a full motorway to Western European understanding represents the maximum speed at the Third Transport Ring is 80 km / h and is adjusted by traffic control systems, if necessary the flow of traffic.

History

The construction of the third ring fell mainly on the period from the late 1990s. It was planned as a relief road for inner city traffic, which was dependent on cross rides solely on the Garden Ring until then and this and adjoining streets clogged hopeless. Some sections of the new ring, however, date back to the 1960s, the running between the metro stations Begovaja and Rischskaja expressway, which was extended and incorporated into the Third Ring 2002. The first newly built section of the Third Ring was the western part near the Sparrow Hills; he was put into operation on 10 May 1999. The complete ring closure took place on 5 December 2003 with the commissioning of Lefortovsky tunnel near the district Lefortovsky.

Have already begun the construction of a new Moscow ring road, the Fourth Transport Ring, in addition to the Third Ring the fast growing car traffic of ten million inhabitants - at least for a few more years - which is to relieve with.