Question: You have been working in this field for many years. In your expert opinion, what mistakes have been made so far in the way Kazan's suburbs have been developed? Were there any?
O.G.: They are obvious and they are characteristic of any absolutely agglomeration, i.e. at a certain stage, the setting goes beyond the periphery of the city limits and coordination is easier there, and accessibility is close enough to the city. Social services can also be transferred to the city. That is a kind of, pardon the expression, parasitic solution. There are such fish-sticks all over the periphery. And it is Moscow, it is Peter, it is any round city begins to be surrounded by such dense development.
Look at the development of Khimki, on the other side of the Moskva River, and you will understand what I am talking about. That is, it is a development without social services, without transportation. But it would seem that this is practically Moscow.
And in Kazan, we see this on the Mamadyshsky Tract, right? On Mamadyshka we see unhappy people standing there for an hour and a half to take their children to school in Kazan and so on. So this is an absolutely standard thing that now needs to be corrected, that now needs to be modified, to prevent this from happening in the future.
What's the remedy for that? Look, in any case we are talking about the development of public transportation. That is, in order to buy traffic jams on Mamadyshka at least a little, there should be an excellent advantageous lane for public transport. Bus traffic in 3-5 minutes on this favorable lane, then the residents of Tsaryov and other villages that now stand for hours in a traffic jam, if they can get there in 20 minutes, as it happens on a free road, I think that 50% of people will cross public transport.
Plus still development and building new roads. The same Voznesensky trakt, which is now partly unloaded, it also takes place. But also on Voznesensky public transport should be a priority, on its own dedicated lane to reach the city, having a transfer point on M-7, to be able to reach the city, then we will be able to cope with the situation to a certain extent.
O.G.: They are obvious and they are characteristic of any absolutely agglomeration, i.e. at a certain stage, the setting goes beyond the periphery of the city limits and coordination is easier there, and accessibility is close enough to the city. Social services can also be transferred to the city. That is a kind of, pardon the expression, parasitic solution. There are such fish-sticks all over the periphery. And it is Moscow, it is Peter, it is any round city begins to be surrounded by such dense development.
Look at the development of Khimki, on the other side of the Moskva River, and you will understand what I am talking about. That is, it is a development without social services, without transportation. But it would seem that this is practically Moscow.
And in Kazan, we see this on the Mamadyshsky Tract, right? On Mamadyshka we see unhappy people standing there for an hour and a half to take their children to school in Kazan and so on. So this is an absolutely standard thing that now needs to be corrected, that now needs to be modified, to prevent this from happening in the future.
What's the remedy for that? Look, in any case we are talking about the development of public transportation. That is, in order to buy traffic jams on Mamadyshka at least a little, there should be an excellent advantageous lane for public transport. Bus traffic in 3-5 minutes on this favorable lane, then the residents of Tsaryov and other villages that now stand for hours in a traffic jam, if they can get there in 20 minutes, as it happens on a free road, I think that 50% of people will cross public transport.
Plus still development and building new roads. The same Voznesensky trakt, which is now partly unloaded, it also takes place. But also on Voznesensky public transport should be a priority, on its own dedicated lane to reach the city, having a transfer point on M-7, to be able to reach the city, then we will be able to cope with the situation to a certain extent.
Question: Are there any successful examples of development in Russia? Exactly successful ones that have been done. So you cite Moscow as an example of both failure and success.
O.G.: Look, Moscow has practically doubled its metro lines over the last 10 years - more than 50 stations have been built. It has introduced metro stations in New Moscow, in the southwest. To the southwest, the metro came to Nekrasovka, a huge new residential area.
The metro, I don't know, it is unlikely to come to Mytishchi in the near future, but peripheral public transport will come: the so-called surface metro, Moscow's same road MCC, MCD diameters, they are also with very good traffic tact, they have removed a very large volume of passenger traffic, they have taken over from the highways. Here is a positive example in Russia. There are many world examples, but here is a positive example in Russia.
Is it possible to transfer something from there to Kazan? Kazan is a separate topic in terms of using the railroad. We don't have many chances to use the railroad. And we are not building the metro so quickly, because it is good for a city like Moscow, where the traffic flow is completely different. That is, in Moscow, the metro transports 4 million people a day. And when we count the Kazanskaya metro, we get that, say, the load per run in Moscow is somewhere around 25 thousand in the rush hour. And we have a peak hour of about eight, eight and a half. So it's shooting sparrows with a cannon. It's incomparable.
So for now, a bus with favorable lanes, with good traffic, is preferable for us. Let's hope that everything will work out, that the problems will be slowly removed, and our agglomeration will grow and develop.
O.G.: Look, Moscow has practically doubled its metro lines over the last 10 years - more than 50 stations have been built. It has introduced metro stations in New Moscow, in the southwest. To the southwest, the metro came to Nekrasovka, a huge new residential area.
The metro, I don't know, it is unlikely to come to Mytishchi in the near future, but peripheral public transport will come: the so-called surface metro, Moscow's same road MCC, MCD diameters, they are also with very good traffic tact, they have removed a very large volume of passenger traffic, they have taken over from the highways. Here is a positive example in Russia. There are many world examples, but here is a positive example in Russia.
Is it possible to transfer something from there to Kazan? Kazan is a separate topic in terms of using the railroad. We don't have many chances to use the railroad. And we are not building the metro so quickly, because it is good for a city like Moscow, where the traffic flow is completely different. That is, in Moscow, the metro transports 4 million people a day. And when we count the Kazanskaya metro, we get that, say, the load per run in Moscow is somewhere around 25 thousand in the rush hour. And we have a peak hour of about eight, eight and a half. So it's shooting sparrows with a cannon. It's incomparable.
So for now, a bus with favorable lanes, with good traffic, is preferable for us. Let's hope that everything will work out, that the problems will be slowly removed, and our agglomeration will grow and develop.