Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin was received by Russia’s President to report on development of municipal transport infrastructure and Moscow economy performance, presidential webpage reports.
According to the mayor, the past year was extremely good for Moscow.
“Thanks to intensive investment in the infrastructure, Moscow’s businesses respond with mutual investments. For every ruble invested in infrastructure we get about three rubles of private investment. In the past several years, investment in real terms grew by over 70%. This year, we predict about 5% investment growth in real terms,” he said.
Commenting on Moscow metro expansion, Sobyanin noted that
“Many years of preparatory work have led us to the new sites being open now. We broke every record there was and opened 32 kilometers of new metro lines, 15 stations and two train depots. We have started work at all sections of the future outer ring metro line, which will be the world’s longest ring metro line. Beijing has the longest one now at about 57 kilometers. Ours will be about 70 kilometers.”