by Yuri Popov (updated in December 2011)
After a decade of decline in 1990s, the situation with metro construction in Moscow has substantially improved in recent years. The city rather than the federal government is now paying for the majority of the construction, and funding has increased over the last decade. Currently, metro construction budget has reached a billion dollars a year. The main diversion from the new metro construction - the obsession with monorails, "light metros", and "mini-metros" - is now a thing of the past, and all the construction funding is spent on regular heavy metro. As of the time of this writing, the projected schedule of station openings is as follows:
December 2012 -- Line 8: station "Novokosino"
December 2012 -- Line 3: station "Piatnitskoye Shosse" and a new yard
December 2012 -- Line 2: station "Alma-Atinskaya" and a new yard
2013 -- Line L1: stations "Lesoparkovaya" and "Bitsevskiy Park" (transfer to Line 6)
2013 -- Line 7: stations "Lermontovskiy Prospekt" and "Zhulebino"
2013 -- Line 8: stations "Delovoy Tsentr" (transfer to Line 4) and "Park Pobedy" (transfer to Line 3)
2014 -- Line 10: stations "Butyrskaya", "Fonvizinskaya", "Petrovsko-Razumovskaya" (transfer to Line 9), "Okruzhnaya", "Verkhniye Likhobory", "Seligerskaya", and a new yard
2014 -- Line 8: stations "Minskaya" and "Ramenki"
2014 -- Line 1: station "Troparevo"
Later projects include (in no particular order):
- new line with the initial segment between "Delovoy Tsentr" and "Savelovskaya" (via "Polezhayevskaya" and "Dinamo")
- connection of the two portions of Line 8 between "Tret'yakovskaya" and "Delovoy Tsentr"
- extension of Line 8 further west from "Ramenki"
- extension of Line 2 further north from "Rechnoy Vokzal"
- extension of Line L1 further south from "Buninskaya Alleya"
All these segments are to be completed in the next 10-15 years, however, it is too early to quote any possible opening dates.