Two months after the Big Circle Line (BCL) went into full service, passengers have already made 53.4 million trips, according to the Telegram channel. “Moscow Deptrans” With reference to Maxim Liksutov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow in the Moscow Transport Government.
According to him, more than 1 million trips are made in BCL in one working day, and the maximum number of trips after the abolition of free travel was recorded on April 21, 2023, when about 1.08 million trips were made on the BCL.
“The demand for the Big Circle Line, built under the personal supervision of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, shows its importance for the city. With the advent of new convenient routes, more and more Muscovites prefer urban transport. We see that the number of cars on the capital roads has decreased by 15-17 thousand,” he said.
Also, the Deputy Mayor of Moscow in the Moscow Transport Government noted that the most popular BCL stations in terms of the number of trips per working day are: Kashirskaya (37.8 thousand flights), Sokolniki (36.6 thousand flights) and ” Textile workers”. (34.5 thousand trips).
Maxim Liksutov stressed that transfers throughout the BCL helped relieve some parts of the Circle Line by up to 23%. He added that the MCC became freer by 16%, in Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya – 12%, and in Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya – 8%.