OREANDA-NEWS  On 24 November was announced, that it is necessary to add approximately 100 km of railway lines to the existed network of the Moscow Metro to make it less busy, Pyotr Biryukov, first deputy Mayor of Moscow at City Hall, declared.

“We are in need of roughly 100 km of railway lines,” Mr Biryukov said during the program Face to City on TV Tsentr channel on November 18.

The official explained that the total length of the railway network of the Moscow Metro was around 300 km but it should be 420 km to make the lines work without overload.

“We need to spend almost USD 44 billion to have this task fulfilled by 2015,” the first deputy Mayor of Moscow noted.

City Hall is currently holding negotiations with the federal centre for allocating funds from the federal budget, however, the issue hasn’t been decided yet.

Mr Biryukov also informed that in several years to come the metro stations are to open in such neighbourhoods of Moscow as Brateevo, Maryina Roshcha and Kosino. A new metro station is planned to be commissioned in Mitino neighbourhood in 2010 as well as another one in Zhulebino in 2011.