The B altic Automobile Tunnel is being built near the Sokol metro station, based on the Bolshaya Leningradka project. The length of the tunnel according to the project reaches 2015 m, and its closed part is about 1544 m. The maximum depth reaches 22.5 m.
The tunnel will have six lanes - three in one direction and three in the opposite direction. Its full opening is planned for the end of 2013. The cost of its construction is more than 80 billion rubles. After completion of the work, the Alabyano-B altic tunnel will be considered one of the directions of the new highway - the North-Western Chord. It will establish communication between two districts of Moscow: North-Eastern and South-Western. Chord will connect four districts: CJSC, SAO, SVAO and SZAO.
It is planned that the highway will run along the following streets of the Skolkovo highway: Kubinka, Vitebskaya, Krylatskaya, Yartsevskaya, Bozhenko, Nizhny Mnevniki, Alabyan, People's Militia, B altic, Academic, Third Nizhnelikhoborsky passage, and after - along the entire length of the Small Ring MZD on Serebryakova passage. The end will be the Yaroslavl highway near the Severyaninsky overpass. Track lengthreaches 29 kilometers. It is also expected that the new Alabyano-B altic Tunnel will simplify traffic along the Volokolamskoye and Leningradskoye highways.
At one of the stages of construction near the Leningrad and Volokolamsk highways near the Sokol station, they are thinking about laying several more roadways along the Alabyano-B altic tunnel from its two sides. On the left passage it is planned to build a surface parking lot, which will have 44 places for cars. It is also planned to create a 0.14 hectare reversal and settling area for public transport on top of the above-ground part of the tunnel, between Leningradsky Prospekt and the side passage.
The builders announced that the construction of the tunnel, during which there were so many organizational and technical problems, would be completed in about three months. The main inconvenience is that construction is carried out under a working line. The work on B altiyskaya Street took place in close proximity to residential buildings, which required rather non-standard operations. For a long time, builders worked near the underground river Tarakanovka. They encountered many tributaries there and spent a lot of time fighting them. Approximately six months were spent trying to advance construction in the area. On this occasion, a meeting was held at the facility itself in order to speed up the work.
The government wants to launch the unique Alabyano-B altic tunnel as soon as possible. However, there is no hurry here, since the work must be efficient, andoften filigree. The Alabyano-B altic tunnel has been under construction for several years. From time to time, the builders informed residents about the new dates for the launch of the tunnel: at first they said that it would open in May, then they said that, most likely, in June. As a result, the longest tunnel under Leningradka was opened in May in only one direction, and in the other it is planned to open in October 2013.
