Monday, March 29, 2010

Moscow Subway Bomb

On some leaved weekday, nearly 9 million masses take the metro from the external inches of the Russian particular into downtown Moscow, doing it the support most hard used underground system in the worldwide after Tokyo's subway.


The small length of a trip on the Moscow tube is 13 kilometers.


But in front passengers can take, they must first get through the huge pushes massing at the just the ticket turnstiles, on the steep, quick escalators and on pushed political platforms.

The longest escalator in the Moscow metro system is 126 meters.

The subway boasts 172 sends in all, 71 of them deep underground.

During the Cold War, some stations were projected as shelters in the event of nuclear attack.


Opened in 1935, many Moscow tube sends stand out for the large socialist realist art featured on the station walls and large chandeliers clearing the long, cavernous tunnels.


Most places feature long political platforms that can accommodate up to eight rail cars, with trains running roughly every 90 seconds.


The Moscow subway system is nearly identical to those used in all other former Soviet cities where there is a tube system, including St. Petersburg, Minsk, Kyiv, Sofia, and Warsaw.


Moscow tube officials say more than 36,000 someones work to run and maintain the tube, the most reliable form of transport in the traffic-clogged city.


In recent years, both reconstruction projects have been completed and more are underway. Officials are also planning several wings of existing lines as the Russian great continues to grow.

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