- Travel in the Novosibirsk metro
- Two metro lines
- History and modernity
The most eastern metro in our country is the Novosibirsk metro. In terms of passenger traffic, it is second only to Moscow and St. Petersburg. Launched in the mid-1980s, it became the first (and also the only) one in the Trans-Urals and Siberia. It was the fourth metro built on Russian territory; in the USSR, it became the eleventh.
The metro of the largest Siberian city occupies one hundred and fifty-third place in the world in terms of the length of the operated lines. In terms of climatic conditions, it can claim to be the most extreme on the planet.
Over the entire existence of this metro, more than two billion passengers have used its services. Every year it helps eighty million of the city's residents reach their goal. The metro carries out about half of the passenger traffic in the city (there are other types of transport in Novosibirsk: trams, trolleybuses, buses). We are talking about municipal transportation.
Travel in the Novosibirsk metro
The fare in the Novosibirsk metro is twenty rubles. The same is the cost of carrying one piece of baggage. You can buy a token at a regular checkout. It is round in shape and has a large “M” on it. By the way, the first tokens appeared in the early 90s. However, the token is not the only way to get into the subway. Sold at the box office and travel tickets. You can pay for travel by credit card (simply by attaching it to the turnstile).
If the passenger is a student or schoolchild, then the fare for him will be half the price. For such passengers, there are special cards (with appropriate names). Cards were also made for privileged categories of citizens: for these passengers the fare is also ten rubles.
The evolution of the fare in the Novosibirsk metro is typical for all similar transport systems on the Russian territory. At the dawn of the existence of this metro, the cost was five kopecks (as in other Soviet subways). In the 90s, the price of the token began to grow rather quickly, and soon it exceeded one thousand rubles. In the early 2000s (that is, after the denomination), it was three rubles, after which the value began to slowly rise again.
Almost all stations start their work at about six in the morning and close at about midnight. Most escalators start at six or seven in the morning. Some work until the very close of the metro, others stop earlier - at eight or nine o'clock in the evening. A number of escalators operate longer than usual during the warmer months (mid-May to late September).
On holidays, the working hours of the metro are sometimes increased: it closes at one in the morning or even at half past one. Intervals between trains are two to three minutes during peak hours, approximately five minutes at regular times. After eleven o'clock at night, the intervals increase to thirteen minutes.
Two metro lines
The metro of the largest city in Siberia includes two lines - Leninskaya and Dzerzhinskaya. The first of them is indicated on the diagrams in red, the second in green.
It should be noted that the largest number of stations is concentrated in the city center. The lines cross only six urban areas. However, the metro development plan provides for coverage of nine districts.
The red line is more busy than the green one. Four hundred and eighty-two trains a day run along the first of the named lines, and three hundred and forty-four along the second. The ground section of the red line is a metro bridge across the Ob.
When trains move along the first track, a woman's voice announces the stations, when trains move along the second track, the voice of a man sounds. These news messages were voiced by the announcers of the Novosibirsk TV and Radio Company.
There are thirteen stations in the metro. Two of them form an interchange hub (the intersection of two lines). Most of the stations are underground, and there are no deep ones among them (the deepest is at a depth of sixteen meters). The length of all stations is one hundred and two meters. All platforms are one hundred meters long and ten meters wide. Only seven stations have escalators.
The following materials were used to decorate the stations built in the 1980s: granite; decorative tiles; glass; marble; pigmented cement. For stations built relatively recently, they used porcelain stoneware, metal-plastic, stainless steel, and aluminum.
History and modernity
In the mid-1950s, there were several plans for the development of Novosibirsk, each of which included the creation of a metro. At the beginning of the 60s, the metro project began to be considered in more detail: at that time a new city development plan was being worked out, Novosibirsk became a million-plus city.
A scheme was created according to which the metro included thirty-six stations located on three lines. The total length of the lines, according to the scheme, was fifty-two kilometers. Where the lines crossed, it was decided to create transfer points. There were four such intersections. This scheme was personally approved by Leonid Brezhnev. After that, its further, more detailed development began.
Construction began only in the late 70s. Seven years after the start of work, the doors of the metro were opened to the townspeople. On the first day of work, thirty-nine thousand passengers were transported. After that, construction work continued for many more years. For example, the Berezovaya Roshcha station appeared only in the early summer of 2005. Almost five years later, the Zolotaya Niva station was opened.
One of the most striking features of the Novosibirsk metro is the bridge over which one of its lines passes. The length of the bridge is two thousand one hundred forty-five meters. It is the longest metro bridge in the world. But this grandiose structure was not built out of ambitious motives. The need to build such a bridge arose in connection with the transport problems of the city. It was necessary to connect the left and right banks of the Ob. Initially, they considered the possibility of connecting them with the help of a tunnel passing under the river, but then preference was still given to the project of the bridge (this construction was cheaper).
The bridge took five years to build. It was opened in the mid-80s. Short glazed galleries connect the bridge with the banks. The bridge itself is a box made of reinforced concrete. Once upon a time there were round windows in it, but in the 90s they were closed with dense folds. The reason is that in winter, the flickering of these white, snow-covered circles led to irritation of the eyes not only of train drivers, but also of passengers. There were numerous requests to close the windows.
Speaking about the peculiarities of the Novosibirsk metro, it is necessary to talk about several unusual trains and carriages. This is a train decorated with city panoramas, several museum trains, a carriage with photographs of orphans (fifty-five photographs of children under the age of fifteen, as well as telephones by which one can contact orphanages) and a carriage with detailed illustrated information on its walls about the local football club.
