Improvement under the My Street program in Moscow will affect more than 80 territories this year. Large-scale work will begin in April, most of them, including the relocation of communications, will be completed in July. The final stage is scheduled for the end of summer. The work can be watched online. In addition, it is known that one of the oldest squares in Moscow, Khokhlovskaya, will be restored this year.
Kotelnicheskaya embankment has always been a must-see place for tourists. Soon people will come here not only to admire the panorama of the Kremlin. A walking area will be created here, which will stretch from Taganka to Zaryadye Park and further to the very heart of the city.
“Zaryadye Park, which will open to visitors this year, will become one of the most important tourist sites in Moscow. As part of the My Street program, we are preparing a “frame” for this new pearl of Moscow. By landscaping Varvarka and Kitaigorodsky passage. A kind of continuation of Zaryadye Park there will be a new pedestrian zone from Varvarka to Nikolskaya Street," said Petr Biryukov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Housing and Public Utilities and Improvement.
Embankments are like a place to relax: this is one of the mottos of the My Street project. On Prechistenskaya, for example, the pavement will be replaced and benches will be installed, and a new square will be laid out next to the Crimean bridge. Repairs will also take place on Bolotnaya Square. It will be centered around the Luzhkov Bridge. And on the adjacent segment of the embankment, the traffic pattern of cars will change.
"Traffic will be opened on Bolotnaya Embankment. The section of the embankment from Bolotnaya Street to Serafimovich will be open to traffic, which will untie the conflict knot of the exit from Serafimovich Street to the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge," said the Deputy Head of the Moscow Department of Transport and Road Infrastructure Development Alina Bisembayeva.
The area of Tverskaya Zastava will change beyond recognition. There will be flower beds. Trams will run again. The monument to Maxim Gorky will be returned to its place. This year the program will cover even more - a total of 80 streets. The goal of the designers is to create a unified urban space, while preserving the uniqueness of historical places.
“First of all, sidewalks should be widened on the streets being improved. On average, on all streets included in the program, sidewalks are widened by 3 meters. But at the same time, wherever possible, we widen sidewalks from 6 meters or more. This width allows you to place street cafes and retail outlets," Biryukov said.
A huge cultural quarter will appear around the Pushkin Museum. And there, workers will probably stay the longest - until 2023.
"They came up with a concept of how to make these disparate buildings built at different times, with an amazing architectural history, with a wonderful historical memory, somehow connected together, into a single whole. And this is the block from Kropotkinskaya to Borovitskaya Square," said Marina Loshak, director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
Colleagues from the Polytechnic Museum also look with interest at the neighboring Lubyanka. There will soon begin a large-scale reconstruction. When the work is completed, the renovated square will become brighter, there will be benches, beautiful lanterns, and trees will be planted on the sidewalks. The changes will also affect the movement of cars. They promise that the new scheme will allow to separate flows and, as a result, get rid of traffic jams.
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
For all the news of the past weekend, we almost missed the main Moscow news - the main volume of work on the reconstruction of the Garden Ring from the Arbat to Dolgorukovskaya street has been completed.
Let's walk through the reconstructed part of the ring and see what it looks like now —>
The reconstruction of Sadovoye is being carried out in stages, the season when such work can be carried out in Moscow is rather short, so this year the reconstruction was carried out only on one third of the ring. The next stages are planned for 2017 and 2018
Let's walk from Smolenskaya to Mayakovskaya
Everywhere they put the usual large tiles
Trees will return to Sadovoe, for which places have already been prepared:
All intersections of the sidewalk with the carriageway of lanes are made smoothly:
I wonder how the trees will take root, but if they grow in a few years, it will become very comfortable.
Many facades are put in order
No, it will be a completely different matter with trees.
Look for yourself, where rare squares have been preserved on the garden, you immediately somehow feel the city comfort
Let's wait and hope
It looks like there will soon be a whole grove in front of the US Embassy:
Lanterns updated in the same style
On Kudrinskaya Square, opposite the skyscraper, some work is still going on, but the most amazing thing is already visible:
TRANSITION! With traffic lights! It's just hard to believe your eyes that there will be a normal ground crossing in this place. Everyone who at least once “had the good fortune” to cross the Garden Ring in this place from Novinsky Passage to, say, Povarskaya, knows that it takes no less than 10 minutes.
For understanding, we have drawn this passage on the map and the route to the nearest underground passages:
Installed information boards
Wide light sidewalks - it's great. By next year, bicycle stations will be returned and moving around Sadovoye will become much faster and more pleasant.
Malaya Bronnaya was made one-sided and narrow, for only one car, which in itself greatly calms the traffic.
On Mayakovskaya, they made several pockets for parking and, by some miracle, manage to immediately strictly follow the rules. Whoever remembers this place 5 years ago will confirm: they parked here in two rows, and the third row stood on the emergency gang, and what happened on the weekend at 18:30-19:00, when crowds came to two theaters ...
A technically difficult, but elegant solution for fencing a pedestrian zone - thick columns leaving underground
In general, Sadovoye has become much more convenient for pedestrians. These are not the central tourist streets, this is not Tverskaya, this is the skeleton of the city, along which people walk from the metro to work, to the theater, to visit and shops, and the perception of the city by the locals themselves depends on how good the city looks in this part of it, therefore, the reconstruction of Sadovoe is a landmark project, which, however, everyone will quickly get used to, and our children and grandchildren will take for granted. Well, why not quickly get used to the good!
Everyone can see the global scale and scale of repairs and alterations - the entire center of Moscow has been dug up for more than three months, torn apart, partitioned off and clogged with all kinds of equipment. It would seem that everything could have been done on such a grand scale a long time ago, but ... the end of the work is still far away.
And the reason is so simple...
Recently, I moved to Sadovoe and every day from the balcony I can observe the progress of work on Sadovaya-Sukharevskaya - how they make nests for trees, and how cable channels are laid, and how paving slabs are laid, and how asphalt is changed at night.
Well, and, accordingly, to draw certain conclusions and get an unambiguous answer about at least one of the weighty reasons that all this has been going on for several months and will continue for at least another month. Although there are good examples when a large-scale reconstruction of some streets was carried out simply at a cosmic pace with minimal inconvenience for the city, its residents and drivers.
To illustrate my findings, over the course of one day, from time to time, I took pictures from the same point of view on construction sites where I observed workers. Green arrows marked those who do something, red arrows marked those who kick x...and, husk seeds or just sleep.
Look at the photo below and everything will become as obvious to you as it is to me.
First location. 6 boobies. All red (do nothing), an hour or more sat and just chattered.
Second location. 7 goonies and 1 conscious digging a hole. The majority either chatter on the phone, or chatter among themselves. 
Third location. 12 dummies and 2 conscious ones who lay tiles. They scratch their tongues again 
The fourth location, on the opposite side of the street. Obviously a different team - and the color of the vests is different, and the approach to work is different. All 6 are working 
The adjacent area is the same. Three more, all working. Looking ahead, I’ll say that these workers almost always, when I went out to take control shots, worked, unlike everyone else 
The fifth location is 10 meters from the previous one. Already a familiar picture - 5 hard workers scratch their tongues. 
Another 10 meters to the side. Three more slackers 
Another 20 meters. And 12 more slackers. 
And 4 more loafers 20 meters from the previous ones. 
An hour has passed. I shoot from the camera at the same locations.
At the first location, life is barely glimmering. Already two workers and both are busy with something 
Four comrades slowly move from the first to the third. Looks like they need a lot of work... 
Yes, there really is a crowd of people here. As many as 6 work and 14 scratch their tongues ... 
Fourth location. And again everyone is working there, like an hour ago. All 7 workers. 
Fifth location. Nothing changed. Four idlers against one conditionally doing something 
Another two hours passed.
People appeared at the first two, two were doing something, five more were very tired and were toiling from idleness 
On the third, nothing changes - there are still a lot of people and still no one does anything, all 13 people. 
At the fourth location, apparently, a small smoke break. Four rest, five continue to work. They were joined by four people from the fifth location. True, they are idle, as in the previous place. 
If we sum up the dry numbers, then it turns out the following:
- 35 people were seen working
- rested doing nothing 95 people, almost three times more.
I understand that people should have a break, and I fully admit that at some point I got on the resting teams. But, I repeat, I watch this construction site every day, I constantly see how a few units of workers work, and the majority play the fool, highlighting short breaks for work in this process.
At the same time, there are areas, as I said above, where people work all the time, whenever they go out to the balcony to look.
Below are the general plans and highlighted areas where the locations are located:
to the left of Sadovoe are the first and second locations, to the right is the fifth with several points
to the right of Sadovoye is the third, to the left is the fourth with the most class-conscious workers. 
In general, while everything is in the process on Sadovoye.
I am sure that soon it will become very beautiful here and the reconstruction is not in vain. I just wish this construction and road traffic hell would end as soon as possible...
16.05.2017
Reconstruction of the Garden Ring will reduce the income of tenants of retail outlets
Some tenants, primarily small start-ups, will not be able to survive the three-month period of reconstruction of the Garden Ring and will be forced to move, Moscow brokers say
The reconstruction of the Garden Ring, which will last until the end of summer, will reduce the income of tenants of retail premises by at least 15%. Analysts of the brokerage company Colliers International shared this forecast with RBC Real Estate. Work on the improvement of the second segment of the Garden Ring (the first was reconstructed last year) began at the end of April.
According to the consulting company CBRE, now a quarter of all commercial space on the first line of the Garden Ring is occupied by companies in the field of beauty and health: beauty salons, nail and massage studios, and dental centers. “For this category of operators, their clients, as a rule, are not random passers-by, people go to most salons purposefully and even to a specific specialist. Accordingly, the reconstruction will have a minimal impact on this group,” says Oksana Kopylova, Deputy Director of Market Research at CBRE.
But part of the spontaneous traffic may be lost by cafes and restaurants located here, which account for about a quarter of all commercial space in the Garden Ring zone, she adds.
Analysts interviewed by RBC-Nedvizhimost admit that some tenants, primarily small start-up companies, will not be able to survive the three-month period of reconstruction of the Garden Ring and will be forced to move from here to neighboring streets.
“With the start of full-scale reconstruction of the Garden Ring, the cost of one parking hour increased to 300 rubles, so many motorists switched to the metro. Business reacts painfully to such changes - scaffolding blocks signs, some profiles are closed for the period of repair or a period when customers and buyers actually have no access to the entrance group. The burden is especially heavy for small networks with a small share of the profitability risk coverage of the network point at the expense of other brand players”, - confirms this forecast, the leading consultant of the retail real estate department of Cushman & Wakefield Maryana Matueva.
Today, the average rental rate in the Garden Ring zone, according to CBRE, is about 70 thousand rubles. for 1 sq. m per year. At the same time, individual premises, for example, in the area of Smolenskaya Square, can cost 120-170 thousand rubles. for 1 sq. m per year. In 2016, tenants actively discussed and lobbied for a clause in the lease agreements providing for a significant discount (up to 40% of the rent per month) or a net percentage of the turnover during the renovation period, or even rental holidays for the same period.
However, the owners were not ready to meet such measures - professional landlords preferred to wait out the reconstruction period than to provide additional benefits and bear the risks of the partners' business. As a result, by autumn, when construction work on Sadovoye was completed, the share of vacant space in the street retail segment on this highway reached 17.6%, which was an absolute record in the entire history of the market, analysts from the international consulting company Knight Frank found out.
More often than others, the reconstruction factor affects the decisions of the expansion of new networks, the interlocutors of RBC Real Estate note. Well-known and experienced players continue to develop in the presence of promising retail space potential. The visual improvement of streets with low pedestrian conversion does not affect the decision of tenants to open new retail spaces. Retailers still ask for high conversion plus parking, rare players are ready to play the role of an anchor tenant and generate street retail traffic (both pedestrian and car) on their own. Maryana Matueva believes that this season the fluctuation of rental rates for newly concluded contracts will not exceed 10% of the current figures.
After the reconstruction of the Garden Ring, interest in commercial premises located on it will grow by at least 10%, Colliers International predicts. “We expect changes in the profiles of Garden Ring tenants - the emergence of new network and individual catering operators, impulse demand stores focused on pedestrian traffic. Now vacant premises on Sadovoye are increasingly filled with catering companies, grocery operators, drogerie stores, while previously most of the areas of this shopping corridor were occupied by banking service operators,” says Ekaterina Podlesnykh.
According to Knight Frank's forecast, there is no point in waiting for a change in the profile of tenants on the Garden Ring in the near future; the main city highway will react to the current improvement with any changes no earlier than in 1–1.5 years.
Recall that this year, within the framework of the My Street program, it is planned to reconstruct three quarters of the Garden Ring - from Dolgorukovskaya Street to Zubovskaya Square, plus adjacent streets, squares and squares. In 2016, the section from Smolenskaya-Sennaya to Dolgorukovskaya Street was landscaped.
What is the Garden Ring? Is this a street? No, because it is impossible to live normally on it. Maybe it's the road? Neither - there is public transport, there are shops in the houses and cyclists ride. So what kind of animal is this? It's just a sea of asphalt.
It is the sea and asphalt. I wanted to draw an analogy with the Dead Sea, but it is more pleasant there than on the Garden Ring. Fortunately, cosmetic work will be carried out on the ring this year: the roadway will be narrowed, doubles will be made, landscaping will be done, and public transport will be pulled to the surface.
The other day, reconstruction projects were posted on the government procurement portal, including the organization of traffic after completion of work. I propose to discard questions of price and quality of work, and look at the ring from the point of view of urban mobility and the quality of public spaces in the city.
Pedestrians and public transport
I have combined these two categories for a reason - they are interconnected: a pedestrian becomes a passenger only at the moment of entering the vehicle. That is why the term "last mile" exists - this is the distance from public transport to the final point of the route (and from the starting point to transport, respectively). Therefore, good public transport requires comfortable and safe street access routes.
Now there is an aggressive environment for pedestrians on the Garden Ring: noise, poor air quality, dirt, the inability to cross the street normally, and so on. The picture is similar with public transport: there is no dedicated lane, due to tunnels and overpasses, stops are located far from metro stations and other hubs. In general, everything is sad. What will change?
There will be new surface pedestrian crossings across Sadovoye on Zubovsky Boulevard opposite RIA Novosti, Serpukhovskaya Square, Dolgorukovskaya and Tatarskaya streets. This is good.
here the ground crossing appeared thanks to a new turn
Tatar
Under the square there is a network of underground passages - it was impossible to orient yourself correctly the first time. For new transitions in this place I want to kiss!
a new crossing on the left, after the introduction of through traffic for buses, it was a sin not to make a normal path for people
And the passage at Karetny Ryad will be notably ennobled: 
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Unfortunately everything. Someday we will duplicate all the undergrounds on Sadovoe with ground crossings, but for now, this is how it is. The most embarrassing thing is the transition at the Kursk railway station - every third person is there with bags, there is a traffic light at the top, but still they make everyone suffer: 
I suggest to every defender of underground passages to run with bags/bicycles/children through them. I think the rubbish will quickly get out of my head. 
With new pedestrian crossings through secondary streets, it is a little better: Dolgorukovskaya, Sretenka, Mira Ave., Kalanchevskaya, St. Basmannaya, V. Syromyatnicheskaya, Vorontsovo Pole.
Sadovoe and St. Basmannaya
In general, slowly progress is being made. But for the underground passage through the exit to the Yauza, I want to scold for a very long time: 
It would seem, why not do it well and remove the unnecessary underground through 2 lanes? Moreover, all other exits are normal. I just worked side by side and suffered a lot: 
There will be new public areas for pedestrians. The biggest changes will be at the Krasnye Vorota metro station, now there is spontaneous parking: 
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And at Gorky Park: 
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We are waiting for a big breakthrough in the work of public transport - bringing buses to the surface at Serpukhovskaya, Oktyabrskaya and Taganskaya squares. To do this, they will make new punctures, mini-dedicated lanes and stops. And all in order to bring stops closer to metro exits: 
Oktyabrskaya, the trajectory of public transport is highlighted in purple
In the future, I would like to bring ground transport to Novy Arbat and Triumfalnaya Square.
mini-highway in front of a traffic light on Zubovskaya street
As a bonus, a new link appeared at the Paveletsky railway station - the bus will be able to immediately turn to it from the inside of the ring. Now we have to make a 2 km rerun for a U-turn near Serpukhovskaya Square: 
the trajectory of movement is highlighted in blue
It is a pity that the tram triangle will not be restored so that trams from the Paveletsky station can turn to Chistye Prudy (and vice versa).
Spoiler for Sretenka: there will be an anti-hair highlighted strip in the center. More precisely, she will return back - she was already there. A good transfer hub will appear near the Sukharevskaya metro station: 
An unnecessary understudy will be removed from Samotechnaya Square and public transport will be brought to the main course - less rebuilding and loss of time for maneuvers: 
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Cyclists
Bike lanes? This is for you in the park. Zero.
Personal transport
There are two good news for drivers: the lane of the ring will be leveled and doubles with parking will be made.
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Due to the constant changes in the number of stripes, bottlenecks and jumping movement were obtained. What is the transition from Zubovsky Boulevard with 17 lanes to 7 lanes on the Crimean bridge. Now everywhere there will be 5 lanes of the main course in each direction (except for bridges and tunnels), due to which traffic will travel calmer and more evenly. It was possible to narrow even down to three lanes - exactly three lanes in all tunnels and overpasses, that is, these are the narrowest places on the ring. It is these bottlenecks that determine the throughput of the entire ring.
In short, the ring should run better, despite the decline in the number of lanes.
understudies with parking will appear in wide places - Sadovoye becomes one step closer to a normal street.
I have already partially said about the new U-turn in RIA Novosti. As well as about parking at the Red Gate and Gorky Park. In the latter case, it was removed due to the permanent tail, which blocked one lane on the ring. As far as I know, there are plans to make parking somewhere else, but for now it will be possible to park at MUZEON.
All turns from Sadovoe were given normal radii - now even without a brick sign it will be subconsciously clear that there is no turn here: 
In general, adequate rounding helps calm traffic, so 90-degree turns are a good solution for streets. Smoother turns are relevant on the highway, not in the city.
Conclusion
Maybe I will repeat myself a little, but I really miss: a dedicated lane on the Garden Ring; duplication of underground passages by ground ones; new links and traffic lights; bike paths; tram; Sukharev tower.
Serpukhovskaya Square turned out very well - this is a breakthrough. The return of public transport to the surface is also a big deal, this need has been talked about since the construction of these same tunnels and flyovers.
If now Sadovoe Koltso, according to a ten-point assessment of the usefulness of the street, goes into the red, then after the reconstruction it will take a place between 3 and 4. Yes, the ring will still not become a full-fledged street - the balance is heavily outweighed in favor of cars with all the ensuing negative factors.
In 10 years, when overpasses and tunnels begin to be demolished, public transport and bike paths are given priority, the street will begin to live in a new way, and photographs of Zubovsky Boulevard of the 2016 model will be shown to children along with a film about Frankinstein.
We will start the demolition from the Park of Culture - the first overpass appeared there - it will be the first to go under the bucket! And on Samotechnaya Square we will make a Moscow
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