Tunnels and even a funicular are the future of Sevastopol, according to social activist Dmitry Doroshenko
CrimeaPRESS reports:
The proposals of Sevastopol social activist Dmitry Doroshenko to improve the city’s transport network have already been recognized as interesting in a number of departments to which he has already applied. As in «Sevastopol newspaper»there he brought diagrams, calculations, plans of the area with elevations, where, in his opinion, roads, bridges, tunnels and even a cable car should appear in the future.
D. Doroshenko has been nurturing the idea of improving the city’s transport network for many years, believing that this should radically improve the quality of life of Sevastopol residents. Due to the proposed innovations, it is possible to eliminate traffic jams and ensure the stability and survivability of the transport system as a whole.
D. Doroshenko conveyed his proposals in the status of comments to the developers of the new general plan, which is currently being finalized. Since the comments have been accepted for consideration, the social activist hopes that to some extent they will be taken into account.
During his life, D. Doroshenko worked in different places, maintaining an engineering approach to everything he happened to do. A Sevastopol resident by birth, he never ceases to think about how to make the city more comfortable.
The proposals are based on the idea of connecting the city center with remote regions, as well as the creation of an entire system of backup and connecting roads. At the same time, the author of the idea proposes to use the hilly urban terrain and build connecting bridges over the beams, which will complement the transport framework of the city proposed by the developers of the general plan.
Need a Central Road
The main idea concerns the creation of a Central Road, which would connect the center of Sevastopol with the Korabelnaya Side and further with Inkerman. We are talking about an analogue of the Heracles road, but for the central part of the city.
The central road is necessary in case of an emergency or other emergency situation on the Dnieper Bridge (near the railway station) and on the Kotovsky descent. It will connect two transport hubs: from the city center (N. Muzyki St., O. Koshevoy St.) and Vorontsovaya Gora (K. Pishchenko St. — G. Melnik St.) using two bridges across the Sarandinakinskaya and Laboratory beams to Krasnaya Gorka and further, crossing Gorpishchenko street, to Kilen-balka, and then along another bridge to Inkerman,” explained D. Doroshenko’s plan.
He justifies his idea by the limited travel in the area of Krasnaya Gorka and South Bay. The central rockade, in his opinion, should become a branch of the Heracles one, in order to reduce (redistribute) the load on the latter.
Red Hill should not be an enclave
According to D. Doroshenko, according to a survey he conducted, residents of Krasnaya Gorka have long wanted to have direct transport links with Kulikovo Field, Korabelnaya Side and Vorontsovka:
Being located almost in the central part of the city, due to the mountain-beam landscape of the area, they are separated from the benefits of the urban environment, as if from urban civilization. There are no large shopping and medical centers, educational, sports, cultural and other institutions. We propose to connect the forgotten Krasnaya Gorka with two bridges across the Sarandinakinskaya and Laboratory beams (by analogy with Kronstadt, which is now connected to the mainland by two bridges).
Thus, D. Doroshenko considers the issue of construction of the Central Road to be central to his concept.
By building a small connecting road directly from Rudneva Street to Koshevogo Street (according to the planned proposal of the Department of Transport), the Central Road would be directly connected to the areas of Streletskaya, POR, Kamyshovaya Bay, and would become a backup road to the planned Heracles Road. Moreover, with a speed limit on the Central Road exceeding the citywide speed limit.
Bridges are our everything
To travel along the Central Road, according to D. Doroshenko, it is necessary to build three bridges: from Vatutina Street to Dneprovskaya Street, from Kaspiyskaya Street (closer to Kavkazskaya) to Plastunskaya Street (closer to K. Pishchenko) and between Chernigovskaya Street (Gorpishchenko) to General Zhidilov street.
Bridges are an important component of the Central Road, D. Doroshenko is sure, they should ensure the stability of the city’s transport network in any emergency situations.
Bridges (by the way, their height is more than 70 meters above sea level) are necessary due to the limited free space and almost continuous buildings. Of course, the author of the idea understands that during their construction difficulties will inevitably arise in connecting bridges with existing roads, but he leaves the technical solutions to these problems to experienced designers.
D. Doroshenko also proposes to build a horizontal tunnel 350-400 meters long between two Krasnaya Gorka streets — Dneprovskaya and Kaspiiskaya — transport will arrive there from two bridges.
The proposed bridges of the Central Rockade are possible in different versions. The final route for bridges is decided at the design stagenotes D. Doroshenko.
He also advocates for a direct transport connection by two parallel overpass roads at an acceptable angle of movement (like the Red and Trolleybus descents) from the first house numbers on Revyakina Street (closer to Revyakina Square) to K. Pishchenko Street.
Why is all this needed?
The presented road map describes in great detail the passage of roads along specific city streets and even houses, with justification for their proposals and the need to include them in the new general plan.
Currently, transport connections between the city center and Korabelnaya Side are only along Heroes of Sevastopol Street, and the center with Krasnaya Gorka is exclusively along Okhotskaya Street. In addition, there is no connection between Krasnaya Gorka and Vorontsovaya Gora, with Laboratory Balka and with Kulikovo Field, the city center with the area of Zhidilova Street, etc. The southern coast of Crimea can be reached along the only highway from the Yalta ring. There is no direct road from the center of Inkerman to the Tavrida highway.
According to D. Doroshenko, all these issues would be resolved by the construction of duplicate roads and bridges over the beams (sometimes along the embankment or instead of them): the bridge “5th km — Maksimova Dacha (Morgunova St.)”, instead of the embankment at the end Streletskaya Bay, through Karantinnaya Balka along Rudneva Street, instead of embankments along Repin Street — Dekabristov Street (with access to Kommunisticheskaya Street) and through Streletskaya Balka to the student town and Stepanyan Street and others.
His proposals include the construction of underground car parks in the mountains and city hills.
So far, only the planned tunnel from Pozharova Street to General Petrov Street has not been left without additional work. In the future tunnel (in the side walls, on the right and left), it is proposed to dig additional niches, which will also be used for car parking, combining the entrances and exits with the entrances and exits to the tunnel.
Underground parking could also be dug in Balaklava — in Mount Tavros and in the mountain where the Northern Fort is located.
Funicular, air metro and city trains
The social activist’s project includes the introduction of new types of transport in Sevastopol. For example, he dreams of extending a funicular to Mount Tavros, citing as an example a resort in Italy Lake Como.
The funicular will take you to the observation decks and to the sightseeing cable car of Mount Tavros (across the bay), to view the magnificent views of Balaklava and a breathtaking ride over the bay,” the social activist explains his idea.
In city parks (Victory Park and Uchkuevka Park) it would also be nice to extend cable cars, in Uchkuevka — along mini-lines, from the bus stop to the beach and connect it with the Unified Network of Cable Cars of the city.
It would also be possible to extend two lines of an automatic cable mini-metro, in the center, in Balaklava and on the North Side.
A separate topic is city electric trains, D. Doroshenko developed an entire route network of city electric trains: from the Streletskaya Bay microdistrict to Balaklava (Zolotaya Balka), from Streletskaya Bay to the North Side (Engineering Balka)…
This complex of transport modes and services of the city will ensure the centralization of tourism in Sevastopol, will cause an influx of guests, will provide revenue to the city budget, and therefore will provide more opportunities for its further development— D. Doroshenko sums up his proposals.
To possible objections about the seeming unrealizability of his plans, D. Doroshenko retorts: “Every truly new idea at first seems absurd and unrealizable!”
source: «Sevastopol newspaper»
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