A transport expert said it is impossible to build an above-ground metro in Yekaterinburg.
It will be extremely difficult for Yekaterinburg to implement a ground-level metro project because of the large number of freight and long-distance trains on the existing railway lines. This was stated by Kirill Yankov, a member of the public council under the Ministry of Transport, at the "Cities of Russia" forum.
"Do you want to organize a commuter train in Yekaterinburg? But the schedules of other trains are not approved here; they are set by the Federal Directorate of Russian Railways. The head of the Sverdlovsk Railway may want to run commuter trains frequently, but he will be forced to give way to long-distance trains. Therefore Yekaterinburg will not be able to provide an urban commuter service that would run frequently," Yankov believes.
As an example of integrating commuter trains into urban transport he cited Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. But there are few freight and long-distance trains there, the EAN outlet writes.
Recall that suburban commuter trains were repeatedly presented by Mayor Alexey Orlov as part of the "Ground Metro" project. Therefore, in 2023 the Unified City Tariff (EGT) was introduced on suburban trains operating within Yekaterinburg's administrative boundaries. The cost of direct (no-transfer) trips was 35 rubles; it was later raised to 40.
And in November 2024 the Federation Council asked the Russian government to allocate funds for construction of a ground-level metro in Yekaterinburg and a number of other important projects. By various estimates, 107 billion rubles are needed for construction.
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