Butovskaya Line
| Line 12 "Butovskaya" | |
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| Opening: | December 27, 2003 |
| Length: | 10.0 km |
| Number of stations: | 7th |
| Total travel time: | 16 minutes |
| Number of passengers on weekday average: | 50,600 |
The Butovskaya line ( Russian Бутовская линия ), also "Line 12" (originally "Line L1"), is a line of the Moscow Metro that was opened in 2003 and was initially planned and marked as a so-called "Light Metro". The first section went into operation at the end of 2003.
Stations
- Bitzewski Park ( ) transition to the station Nowojassenewskaja the line 6
- Lessoparkovaya ( Лесопарковая )
- Uliza Starokachalovskaya ( ), transition to the station Bulwar Dmitrija Donskowo the line 9
- Ulitsa Skobelevskaja ( )
- Bulwar Admirala Uschakowa ( )
- Ulitsa Gorchakova ( )
- Buninskaja Alleja ( )
The section from Bitzewski Park up to and including Starokachalovskaya Street runs underground, the rest as an elevated railway .
General
Initially planned explicitly as a "light metro" (Russian "лёгкое метро"), the line was finally built to be technically fully compatible with all other lines on the Moscow metro network. It differs from them only in that it is designed to reduce the number of passengers. Accordingly, it is used by shorter trains than usual, the platforms are shorter and narrower, the stations and the routes - common with the light metro - are laid out above ground as an elevated railway over long distances . The Butovskaya line in particular was built to connect the satellite city of Butowo, which was incorporated into Moscow in the 1980s, to the Moscow metro network more cheaply than would have been the case with the construction or extension of a conventional metro line , here the extension of the existing line 9 , which is also being discussed to Butowo.
history
First, on December 27, 2003, the 5.6 km long section from Ulitsa Starokatschalowskaja to Buninskaja Alleja was put into operation with five stations. Only the station Ulitsa Starokatschalowskaja, at the transition to the terminus Bulwar Dmitrija Donskowo of the Serpukhovsko-Timirjasewskaja line, is underground on this section . According to the original characterization as "light metro", the line was designated as L1 (Russian Л1 ), but from around 2012 as line 12 according to the counting of the other Moscow metro lines.
On February 27, 2014, the line was extended at the northern end by two stations to Bitzewski Park , where there is a connection to the Novojassenewskaya terminus of the Kalushsko-Rishskaya line. Construction on this completely underground section of the route began in 2011.
Depot and vehicles
Trains of the new series 81-740 / 741 Russitsch run on the line , which were specially developed for the light metro by the Russian manufacturer Metrowagonmasch and were newly delivered for the opening of the line, but now also run on "normal" metro lines. The vehicles are serviced in the Warschawskoje depot on line 9; In the future, the line is to have its own depot after it has been extended to the south.
Expansion planning
For the period after 2020, an extension in a southerly direction with the three new stations Potapovo, Chechorsky Projesd and Novokurjanowo is planned, as well as the construction of a separate depot for the line on this section. For the more distant future, a further extension towards Shcherbinka is possible.
