KUNA : Russia expands Moscow metro network – Transport – 22/04/2023 – Kuwait News Agency

KUNA : Russia expands Moscow metro network – Transport – 22/04/2023 – Kuwait News Agency

News Report by Adib Al-Sayed

MOSCOW, April 22 (KUNA) -- Russia completed a new phase of expanding the metro network in Moscow in March, building the Big Circle Line, a 70-kilometer loop that links 31 stations across the city.



Maria Khilchenko, the head of the Moscow Metro External Relations Department, said in an interview with Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that construction of the new line increased passenger capacity one million per day, bringing the total number of users of the underground network to nine million every day.



Number of metro stations throughout Moscow including newly built districts reached 250, she said adding that the new line enabled passengers to gain 45 minutes per day, contributed to linking up various sectors of the 2,500-sq-km capital, shortened distances and helped in easing off traffic especially at the peak hours in the morning and at night.



Supervisors of the system largely depend on digital technology but its use has not resulted in cutting number of the working personnel, amounting to 68,000, Khilchenko said, indicating that the metro authorities had to train some of the workers on the new technologies.



Carriages are equipped