Metro Will Go Mini And Light in Moscow

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Metro Will Go Mini And Light in Moscow

Moscow's sprawling metro system is to get two new types of transport -- a compact mini-metro and an above-ground "light" metro -- within the next two years, the metro's top official said Wednesday.

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Moscow's sprawling metro system is to get two new types of transport -- a compact mini-metro and an above-ground "light" metro -- within the next two years, the metro's top official said Wednesday.

The light rail, which is to be enclosed in a futuristic-looking tube and to travel along an 7.5-meter-high overpass, will cover the eight-kilometer stretch between the as yet unbuilt Dmitry Donskoi Boulevard station at the southern tip of the gray line and the South Butovo district. The line will have seven stations.

The mini-metro -- so called because the trains are smaller, the stops closer together and some of the track less deep than the standard metro -- will stretch over some 2.8 kilometers connecting Kievskaya metro station with the Moscow-City business center.

Both projects are to be completed in 2004, metro chief Dmitry Gayev said at a news conference. "This is no fad. It will be qualitatively new passenger transportation," he said

The light metro will have a capacity of 10,000 to 20,000 passengers per hour, while the mini-metro will service up to 35,000. The city's existing metro system has an hourly passenger turnover of about 420,000.

Gayev said a light metro line is also planned for Astafyevo, Shcherbinka and Bitsevsky Park in the south, and possibly for Solntsevo and the Moscow region towns of Mytishchi and Balashikha.

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