Maxim Liksutov spoke about the development of the Moscow tram and reducing the load on the roads

The launch of the Moscow tram diameters T1 and T2 made travel between the districts of the capital more convenient. Now passengers can move quickly between remote areas, save time and make convenient transfers.

This was told by the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport and Industry Maxim Liksutov. According to him, the demand for diameters is high: passengers make more than 4 million trips per month, and peak passenger traffic reaches 219,000 per day. MTDs operate on the principle of the ground metro, providing 41 transfers at the metro station, MCC, IDC and railway platforms, and also connect four stations. The traffic interval is 6 minutes, on the section between the metro stations "Krasnoselskaya" and "Tulskaya" - every 3 minutes.

An additional effect of the launch of new routes was a decrease in the number of cars on the city roads - minus 1.1 thousand per day.

On the T1 and T2 run modern low-floor trams of Russian production - "Vityaz-Moscow" and "Lvienok-Moscow". Thanks to the autonomous driving system, cars can travel more than 4 kilometers without a contact network.

On behalf of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, we continue to develop the tram network. Moscow tram diameters make travel around the city more convenient and at the same time reduce the load on the roads. This shows that the modern tram is becoming a real alternative to personal transport, Liksutov said.