From Moscow to St. The first batch of trains to serve the high-speed line (HSR) to St. Petersburg will cost the Russian budget 148 billion rubles. In this respect RIA News said Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Vitaly Savelyev.
At the meeting on the development of high-speed railway service in Russia with the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Savelyev noted that the trains will run at intervals of 10-15 minutes.
“When the high-speed railway comes into service in 2030, we predict that the total passenger traffic will increase by 35% to 43.4 million passengers, 23 million of which will travel on the high-speed railway,” Savelyev said.
At the same time, Moscow and St. It is assumed that air carriers between St. Petersburg will lose up to 14% of their passengers. According to the plan, the first high-speed highway will run from Moscow to St. Petersburg via Tver and Veliky Novgorod. He should go to St. Petersburg. From Moscow to St. The train should arrive in St. Petersburg in 2 hours and 15 minutes.
It is also planned to build the high-speed railway on a public-private partnership basis, based on a concession agreement. The first batch of trains to serve the high-speed railway will cost 148 billion rubles.
Before that, it was known that Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko advocated the construction of a high-speed railway to Minsk.
Putin before announced Construction of high-speed railway lines to new regions.