Near the Khlebnikovo platform, the construction of a viaduct is in full swing - Sheremetyevo forest. Andrey Vorobyov launched the opening of traffic along the overpass in Khlebnikovo
Now in terms of transport, the city of Dolgoprudny is one of the most problematic in the near Moscow region.
Problem one: the city is cut into four “slices”, four transport-isolated clusters. Along it is the busy Savyolovsky railway, and across it is the Moscow Canal. There are only 3 crossings across the railway in the city that are extremely busy and closed most of the time - at the Khlebnikovo, Vodniki and Novodachnaya platforms. There is only one connection through the Moscow Canal - Dmitrovskoe Highway. All this means enormous mileage and unpredictable travel times.
Problem two: access roads to Moscow, Likhachevskoe highway for the western part of the city and Dmitrovskoe highway for the eastern part. Both the highways themselves and their extensions in Moscow have long been unable to cope with the load due to the colossal commute.
It is not surprising that in terms of transport accessibility, or rather inaccessibility, Dolgoprudny successfully and sadly competes with such cities near Moscow as Balashikha, Korolev and Krasnogorsk!
However, there is something that distinguishes Dolgoprudny from the cities mentioned above: practically all the main problems of the city are now being solved. And almost simultaneously in all directions.
Overpasses across the Savyolovskaya railway
Already under construction overpass in Khlebnikovo. The deadline is 2014. 
Construction will begin soon overpass near Novodachnaya. The deadline is 2015. 
Overpass near Vodnikov It is still awaiting design, with a tentative delivery date scheduled for 2017.
Secondly, in the title of the M-11 highway, an interchange of the Likhachevskoe highway with the M-11 is also being built, as well as an exit from the Likhachevskoe highway to the Korovinskaya interchange! The term is also 2014-2015. 
This will give residents of Dolgoprudny direct access to Korovinskoye Highway. By the way, it is now also being reconstructed (with local broadenings).
Video about the M-11 toll highway
But what about Dolgoprudny itself?
Against the background of these problems and their solutions, transport difficulties inside Dolgoprudny may not seem too severe. But nevertheless, the city has problems of capacity, safety, and convenience for motorists, passengers, and pedestrians. And Probok.net has already prepared a package of proposals to solve them. But there will be a separate post about this.
Write what problems there are on the roads of Dolgoprudny, and your proposals for solving them. We will also try to review and submit them for resolution.
MOSCOW, February 17. /TASS/. The overpass at the Khlebnikovo platform in Dolgoprudny near Moscow, opened on December 25 as part of the “Free Moving” project of the governor’s program “Our Moscow Region,” has confirmed its effectiveness. IN currently the intensity of traffic on it exceeds 17 thousand cars per day, reports the press service of Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Moscow Region Peter Ivanov.
“Constant monitoring of traffic flows in the area of the railway crossing at the Khlebnikovo platform shows that the opening of the overpass not only facilitated the movement of hundreds of thousands of residents of Dolgoprudny, Khimki and nearby cities, but also significantly relieved traffic in the area and reduced travel time from Dmitrovskoye Highway to the airport Sheremetyevo. According to measurements taken from February 2 to February 8, traffic intensity Vehicle along the overpass exceeds 17 thousand cars per day, including 7.5 thousand towards Dmitrovskoye Highway and more than 9.6 thousand in reverse side", said Ivanov.
Measurements of traffic intensity on the new overpass were carried out using intelligent radar-location vehicle detectors "Strelka - Wave - HD125". Their settings allow not only to determine the volume of vehicle flow, but also to systematize them into categories depending on the length of the vehicle.
Thus, monitoring showed that on average almost 6.5 thousand cars up to 4 meters long are heading along the overpass in the direction of Dmitrovskoye Shosse every day, and 8.3 thousand cars are already passing in the opposite direction. The average daily traffic intensity of vehicles from 4 to 9 meters in length is more than 850 towards Dmitrovskoye Highway and over 1 thousand towards Sheremetyevo. The intensity of transport over 9 meters in length is on average 160 and 300 units, respectively.
“The peak load on the overpass in both directions falls on the time periods from 7 to 10 o’clock in the morning and from 16 to 20 o’clock in the evening. At this time, more than 11 thousand cars pass here. At the same time, the minimum average speed does not fall below 60 km/h , whereas previously, before the opening of traffic, motorists stood for hours in traffic jams in front of a closed barrier,” emphasized the deputy chairman of the regional government.
It should be noted that currently the single-level intersection with the railway tracks in the area of the Khlebnikovo platform is not closed and some motorists, out of habit, use the crossing with a barrier. However, their number is decreasing every day - measurements have shown that approximately 2 thousand cars a day cross the railway in the “old way”. At the same time, their maximum average speed does not exceed 25-28 km/h.
Let us remind you that the overpass at the Khlebnikovo platform is one of three planned for construction in the Dolgoprudny area. The overpass is a metal span structure 224 meters long and weighing more than 2.7 thousand tons. It passes through a 7.5 meter wide road and two railway tracks. Cars on the overpass travel in two lanes in each direction. The span structure of the overpass is designed in such a way that in the future it is possible to increase the number of railway tracks to four - this will allow separating the flow of long-distance trains and commuter electric trains and reducing the intervals in the movement of electric trains.
The opening of working traffic along the overpass, which took place on December 25, 2014, completed the first stage of construction; in 2015, reconstruction of the adjacent street- road network. Also in 2015, it is planned to open traffic on the overpass in the area of the Novodachnaya platform, and preparatory work for the construction of another overpass in the area of the Vodniki crossing will begin in the near future.
In total, as part of the “Free Moving” project of the governor’s program “Our Moscow Region,” which is designed to solve traffic problems at single-level intersections of roads and railways and increase transport accessibility of cities in the Moscow region, the construction of 17 overpasses is planned in the Moscow region.
Control over the construction of road facilities in the Moscow region is carried out on a weekly basis. Meetings of construction headquarters are held on site, which make it possible to determine control points for the implementation of projects.
Last weekend, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Moscow Region Pyotr Ivanov and the head of the Main Directorate of Road Facilities of the Moscow Region Konstantin Lyashkevich, with the participation of the head of the city of Dolgoprudny Oleg Troitsky, held a meeting of the headquarters for the construction of an overpass across the railway at the Khlebnikovo platform.
The overpass at the Khlebnikovo platform is one of 7 overpasses being built as part of the “Free Moving” project of the governor’s program “Our Moscow Region”, and the first, work on which is at the final stage - working traffic on the road is planned to be launched by the end of 2014.
The construction site is located in the central part of the Sheremetyevsky district municipality g.o. Dolgoprudny. The purpose of construction is to eliminate the one-level intersection of the New Highway with the railway tracks of the Savyolovsky direction of the Moscow Railway at the Khlebnikovo platform. The turn to Khlebnikovo is the first transport interchange from the Dmitrovskoye Highway (federal highway A-104 "Moscow-Dmitrov-Dubna") in the direction and further to the M-10 "Russia" highway.
The existing traffic is characterized by many kilometers of traffic jams during peak hours and weekends. The reasons for congestion are the proximity of Moscow and the Moscow Ring Road with a tendency towards international airport Sheremetyevo, with its cargo terminals and industrial zones of the city of Lobnya located in close proximity, high intensity of train traffic in the Savelovsky direction, as well as a significant excess of the standard level of load of the area's road network due to dense development.
“The overpass solves transport problems not only in Dolgoprudny,” emphasized Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Moscow Region Pyotr Ivanov. “It is part of a comprehensive solution to the transport problem in this part of the Moscow region, since its commissioning is synchronized with the commissioning of the first section of the Moscow-St. Petersburg expressway 15-58 km in Khimki.”
The overpass in Khlebnikovo is distinguished by a unique design of a metal span, the length of which is 224 meters and weighs more than 2,700 tons. It passes through a 7.5 meter wide highway, two railway tracks and in the future makes it possible to build 2 more railway tracks. The project includes two lanes of traffic in each direction, barrier fences, construction of access roads, installation of noise barriers, LED lighting, arrangement of paths and construction of two staircases for pedestrians. During construction, appropriate engineering and design solutions were used, which today are not used anywhere else in the Moscow region.
“The work is in the final stage, the opening of the labor movement is planned for the end of December,” said Pyotr Ivanov. - “This is facilitated by weather- steady temperature regime and the lack of precipitation allow us to lay asphalt and complete work on the overpass ramps.”
At present, the procedure for lowering the span onto the supports has already been completed; all parts of the overpass are at the same level and represent a single object along which road equipment can easily pass from one end of the overpass to the other. “Work continues on the installation of noise barriers, the overpass is being painted, and the installation of lighting is being completed,” said Konstantin Lyashkevich, head of the Main Directorate of Road Facilities of the Moscow Region. - “Work is underway to construct staircases and install drains. To open the working traffic, it remains to finish the overpass ramps - in the coming days, work will begin on laying the top layer of the road surface for the subsequent laying of crushed stone-mastic asphalt concrete.”
Lobnya: the future of the road network November 17th, 2014
The city of Lobnya is part of the so-called northwestern agglomeration cluster of the Moscow region, which also includes Khimki, Dolgoprudny, Skhodnya and several dozen other small settlements.
Perspective scheme construction of Lobnya roads until 2021 (click for full diagram with names)
Due to the lack of alternative routes, it is difficult for Lobnya residents to both leave the city and return to it, especially during rush hour. On the one hand, everything is held by the railway crossing on Rogachevskoye Shosse, on the other - by the narrow Starosheretevskoye Highway, and between them the main road of the city - Lenin Street. There are simply no bypass roads!
In order to somehow improve the situation, in 2014 the city repaired broken railway crossings across the access roads on Lobnenskoye Highway, st. Lenin and Bunin highway.
And Mosavtodor, for the same purpose, implemented two Probok.net proposals for organizing traffic.
Firstly, at the beginning of 2014, traffic on three driveways in the airport area was made one-way (a project based on our proposal, supplemented by two traffic lights). 
Secondly, the traffic light at the intersection of the street. Lenin and Krasnopolyansky Proezd were adjusted, making 4 programs (morning-day-evening-night) instead of 2.
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It became
Simply put, we swapped two phases, in the morning we increased the length of the phase for leaving the city, and in the evening - the “half-fan” phase for entering the city straight and to the left on Krasnopolyansky.
All this made it easier for city residents to enter and exit. But this won't last long. After all The peculiarity of Lobnya’s position is that transit through it goes both along and across.“Along” they travel from Moscow and to Moscow along the Rogachevskoye highway, “across” - between the Leningradskoye and Dmitrovskoye highways, since the closest connection is a “small concrete road”. Moreover, Sheremetyevo Airport is located next to Lobnya, the passenger and cargo traffic of which is growing. Well, if you consider that now in the immediate vicinity of Lobnya there is a colossal density road construction(reconstruction of Dmitrovskoe highway, construction toll road Moscow - St. Petersburg, construction of an overpass in Khlebnikovo), we should expect rapid growth in transit through Lobnya already in 2015.
Roads under construction are yellow, roads are being completed in green. Taken from a map of road construction projects in Moscow and the region
What roads does Lobnya need first?
Secondly, the city really needs northern bypass. This new traffic-light-free road, 4-6 lanes wide, with an overpass over the railway tracks, will be located away from residential buildings and will connect Dmitrovskoye Highway with Rogachevskoye and Krasnopolyanskoye Highways. Northern bypass Lobny will not only remove a significant part of the transit from residential streets in the north of the city (Lugovaya microdistrict), but will also divert part of the transit from the south of Dmitrovskoye Highway to Rogachevskoye, allowing you to bypass the clogged railroad crossing on Batareinaya Street.
What are the prospects for these projects?
The project for the reconstruction of Starosheretevo highway is already ready. The northern bypass of Lobnya is just being designed. Unfortunately, there is no money for construction yet for either project. When exactly they will be found depends on the federal center and the Moscow region. We can only hope for the best.
Local events
Already now, on Lenin Street in Lobnya, a set of local events is needed that will ensure maximum throughput streets and get rid of bottlenecks. And we have already prepared this package. More about this another time, but for now write what and why needs to be improved on the roads of Lobnya. We will try to work it out and include it in the next package.
Real New Year's gift residents of Dolgoprudny received. The long-awaited crossing over the railway has opened at the Khlebnikovo platform. Now thousands of motorists will not waste precious hours in traffic jams. This overpass became the “first sign” of the large-scale project “Free Moving” near Moscow.
A familiar picture: a crossing at the Khlebnikovo platform in Dolgoprudny, hundreds of cars - cars, trucks, buses - waiting for the barrier to be raised and it will be possible to pass. Electric trains rush past. And sometimes half an hour passes before the red light on the semaphore goes out.
Movement on railway The Savelovsky direction is very dense. Trains run every five minutes. The crossing is closed. The cars stop. Traffic jams several kilometers long are common here during rush hours. They calculated: the crossing is closed for 8 hours a day. Because of this, the speed of traffic on the New Highway - it connects the Leningradskoye Highway with Dmitrovsky - both on weekdays and on weekends did not exceed an average of 10 km per hour. Trips home, to the dacha and to Sheremetyevo airport turned into a real nightmare for thousands of drivers.
“We stood for about 45 minutes. In the summer it happened longer: about an hour - an hour and fifteen. We just stood and waited,” says the driver.
For five years, a two-kilometer overpass was built across the Khlebnikovo crossing. And on the night of December 26, the first cars passed along it. The drivers couldn’t believe their eyes: less than a minute - and they were already on the opposite side.
"Great feeling from new road. We're glad." "We used to stand for hours, for a very long time. Now there are simply no words. Great!" - motorists are happy.
“The construction of this overpass significantly relieved congestion on the nearby streets; it allowed more than 28 thousand cars to move daily without stopping at this crossing,” Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Region Government Pyotr Ivanov notes in an interview with the program.
6 billion rubles were allocated from the budget for the grandiose construction project. In the end, we spent less than half. And the project itself became the first in the Moscow Region “Free Moving” program - it provides for the construction of overpasses at all intersection points highways with railway tracks. Four lanes in both directions, two exit ramps, sound barriers, and separate paths for pedestrians.
"The problems were primarily related to the preparation of the territories, because the construction was carried out within the city limits, very a large number of engineering communications, a very large volume of seizures - we built on the territory of multi-apartment buildings, gardening partnerships, and we had to resolve issues with residents,” says Konstantin Lyashkevich, head of the Main Directorate of Road Facilities of the Moscow Region.
IN next year in Dolgoprudny they promise to complete the construction of another overpass - in the area of the Novodachnaya platform at the intersection with Likhachevskoye Highway. Here the situation is even more critical: the crossing is closed almost 15 hours a day. In total, by 2017, the Moscow Region authorities plan to build 17 free and 50 toll overpasses over railway tracks in the region.
