Krylatskoe
August 17, 2006
New cable-stayed bridge
I woke up at eight a.m. feeling a burning need to go and look at a metro station being built in one of Moscow’s neighbourhoods. Why not Krylatskoye?
From afar you can see the arches of the crazy new cable-stayed bridge. It’s impossible to drive past without stopping. The kind lift attendant agreed to take me up.
The structure is beautiful, even in a half-finished state.
The views are spectacular.
The scenery on the other side isn’t too shabby either.
The tunnel towards Strogino
Why jump the fence? They’ll let you enter any construction site as long as you put a hard hat on.
Human passage
Behind me — “Krylatskoye” metro station, which is operational. Before me — the new tunnel.
The tunnel shield has gone in about five hundred metres.
The tunnel under the Serebyany Bor forest
The most interesting tunnel of all is being built as part of the Krasnopresnensky highway, currently under construction. The metro and the cars will run one under the other.
Propaganda and comments.
Don’t put crap in your mouth
On a high
Poison
This is where the mouth of the tunnel will be.
In fact one of the tunnels is almost ready. Cars will drive above and the metro will run underneath.
Here’s the bit for road vehicles. The white bits on the left are swatches of the tunnel interior’s finish.
A smaller tunnel runs between the two larger ones. Although in this case small means the size of a regular metro tunnel. It will be used for communications and the like. Or they might grow mushrooms in it — after all, no one’s going to check.
They’re only just now boring the second tunnel. Mine carts marked express ferry workers to the shield.
The tunnel is 14 metres in diameter.
They’re using the largest tunnel shield in Russia, German-made. Previously it was used to dig a tunnel under Moscow’s Lefortovo district.
Whatever was left off the signs the sinkers have added in themselves.
5 pumps
every shift only
while
rotor is spinning
It’s time to go to work.
I should go to see the metro again, before they finish building yet another station.
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On my way to the centre I saw this ad. I’d give it the top prize in “This year’s stupidest slogan” competition without a second thought.
Turnkey heating!
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