In 2025, another toll highway will be built in the Moscow region.

According to Kommersant, this will be a backup for Yegoryevskoye Highway. The length of the toll backup will be 36 kilometers, it will have four lanes and nine interchanges and will connect the Moscow Ring Road and the Central Ring Road in the eastern direction. Construction will begin this year: it will begin in the village of Tomilino near Moscow, will pass through the territory of the Lyubertsy district, as well as the Kotelniki and Ramenskoye districts, and will reach the Central Ring Road near the village of Gzhel. The backup is planned to be put into operation in 2027-2028.

The construction of a paid backup has been discussed since 2019. In December 2021, the government of the Moscow region entered into a concession agreement with M.E.T.K LLC, and at the end of 2024 the project received a positive conclusion from the state examination. The working name of the new road is “Moscow-Egoryevsk-Tuma-Kasimov”, or METK.

Gazprombank (GPB), namely its subsidiary GPB-Infrastructure Holding, is ready to invest most of the funds in the project. The volume of investments in construction has increased from 60 billion rubles to 110 since 2021.

It is assumed that a paid backup will be able to relieve congestion on the Yegoryevskoye Highway, which originates in Lyubertsy and ends in Kasimov (Ryazan region). Today this is one of the busiest highways in the region; it is densely built up, so it is impractical to reconstruct the route.

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With the advent of the backup, the transit flow of cars will bypass populated areas, making Yegoryevskoye Highway safer. In addition, an alternative route will appear between the Central Ring Road and the Moscow Ring Road. However, the opening of a new toll road will have to rise in price for at least another two years, or even three – the project will be put into operation in 2027 or 2028.

The main question is how much it will cost to travel along the Yegoryevskoye Highway alternate route. According to Kommersant, at the stage of concluding the concession agreement it was planned to set the tariff at 14.8 rubles per kilometer (a little more than 530 rubles for the entire 36-kilometer section). In November 2024, the Minister of Transport of the Moscow Region, Alexei Gerzhik, said that tariffs for the project would be indexed, but promised that there would be no significant increase in prices.

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