OREANDA-NEWS. January 11, 2013.  Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will chair a working meeting on January 11 to discuss the implementation of Government instructions following the September 19 and October 4, 2012 meetings on the Moscow hub's development. Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, and Russian Railways CEO Vladimir Yakunin will attend.

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The instructions concern the Moscow regional transport development programme up until 2020 and the federal transport strategy up until 2030. The instructions address the construction and the upgrading of the Moscow hub, lorry terminals, and railway infrastructure and regional highways, including railway crossings and link roads.

The streamlining of the lorry transport arrangements will continue this year to ease the load of the Moscow Ring Road and thoroughfares. Specifically, the programme envisages the closing of freight yards and connecting tracks within the Smaller Ring Railway, the construction of transport logistic centres complete with railway infrastructure within the Moscow Ring Road, and the formation of a network of such centres in Moscow and its environs to service and redistribute the traffic flow in the region, with 113 parling lots for 7,190 lorries, or 72% of the average total.

The state transport system development programme up until 2020, which was endorsed in December 2012, stipulates federal budget funding for Moscow railways in 2015-2020 at 17.6 billion roubles per year to upgrade their infrastructure. Russian Railways and the Moscow Government also plan to improve five radial railways – the Yaroslavl, Gorky, Kursk, Kazan and Savelovskaya – and have earmarked 85.9 billion roubles for the job, which is timed for 2013-2020.

Government Executive Order No 2442-r of December 21, 2012 stipulates additional subsidies for the construction and the maintenance of public roads in the most problem-laden areas of Moscow and its environs, including the construction and improvement of railway crossings – 11.992 billion roubles to the regional budget, and 15.1 billion to the municipal budget.