What time do trolleybuses start running? How to use your phone to find out when the bus is coming
The metropolitan metropolis lives an intense life around the clock, so traffic at night only decreases, but does not stop completely. Of course, cars predominate in this flow - personal ones and taxis, but there is also a certain amount of public transport.
How long does public transport run in Moscow?
The bulk of city buses, trolleybuses and trams begin their working day at 5-6 a.m., ending at 11-11 p.m. Some routes, mainly outlying ones, operate until a maximum of 10 p.m. Route taxis they enter the line in approximately the same range, starting work around 5.30-6.00 and finishing it closer to 23.00. The metro increases the chances for late passengers by another hour - the metro doors close at 01.00, opening again at 5:30-5:45 depending on the station.
Night transport in Moscow
But what about those who need to get to the airport, train station or home at night? The choice is small:
night public transport;
personal cars;
With a personal car, everything is clear, we can only note that it is inconvenient to go to the station or the airport yourself - you will have to long term leave your car in a paid parking lot. And it’s not always convenient to get home if you’ve been actively resting before - you’ll also have to leave the car in the parking lot at night or order a “sober driver” service.
Night public transport routes in Moscow
In 2013, at the request of Muscovites, the authorities introduced the first night routes. Now 6 night buses run around the city every night at half-hour intervals, with one common end point - Lubyanskaya Square, thanks to which you can transfer from one route to another. The second final stop is different for everyone:
H1 - Sheremetyevo Airport;
H2 - Belovezhskaya street;
H3 - Ussuriyskaya street;
H4 - Novokosino;
H5 - Kashirskoe highway, 148;
H6 - Ostashkovskaya street.
There are also 3 trolleybuses and a tram on the line (from the metro station " Chistye Prudy"to Akademika Yangelya Street). One of the trolleybuses moves along Garden Ring with an interval of 15 minutes, the other two run every half hour: from Lubyanka Square to block 138 on Vykhino and from the station. m. "VDNH" to st. 10th anniversary of October.
Most night transport starts at 0.00 and leaves for the park around 6 am. Exact schedule Night public transport routes in Moscow can be seen on the Mosgortrans website.
Convenient taxi for night trips around Moscow
Night public transport in Moscow runs mainly along metro lines. If you are at night:
you need to go to another area not covered by buses and trolleybuses,
I don’t want to wait at least half an hour, and then have to walk to my own house,
you need to get to the train station or airport with your luggage and children, -
The best option would be to call a taxi, of course, if you choose the right company - inexpensive, reliable and comfortable, for example, "5 Star Taxi". Its advantages.
Each week, Look At Me takes a look at one notable app that's changing the way we think about mobile experiences, and digs into the ideas, the technology, the developers behind the App Store icon. In the new issue - a conversation with the creators of the ETransport application, which allows you to track the movement of urban public transport.
The ETranport application finds the stops closest to the user and displays the direction of movement there. Just select the desired stop, and the application will calculate how many minutes later this or that public transport will arrive.
ETranport provides users with the opportunity to create their own list of favorite stops and routes, so that they don’t have to re-search for the ones they use most often.
A tab with a list of favorite stops and routes can be made the starting tab- this will simplify the process of using the application.
The ETranport application also stores in memory the last few stops and routes viewed by the user.
The movement of public transport in the application can be tracked either by interactive map, and according to the list with information about arrival time and distance.
The free ETransport application collects information about the location of urban transport equipped with GLONASS sensors and calculates the arrival time of buses, trolleybuses and trams at a specific stop. The application automatically determines the user's location and prompts him to select one of the nearest stops on the interactive map. Next, the screen displays a list of routes and the time after which this or that public transport will arrive at the stop. Thanks to this, you can save time and plan your route wisely. Also in the ETranport application there is a function for saving favorite stops and the ability to view the history of your movements.
“When we were students and just starting our small business- a mobile application development company - we were missing an interesting project for our portfolio. I wanted to come to a potential client and say: “Do you know ETranport? We did this! That is, initially it was a kind of side project, but in the end it was it that attracted new clients.
The principle of operation of the application itself is quite simple - ETransport determines the user’s location and offers to select the nearest transport stops on an interactive map, and then shows the approaching transport and the time after which it will arrive at the stop. The biggest problem associated with the launch of ETranport is that it is necessary to negotiate with city authorities about the right of access to specific location data of all public transport units. In my opinion, this is strange - after all, the convenient service that we create for citizens benefits any government. Moreover, this is simply wrong - such data cannot be hidden, it must be in the public domain. In this regard, St. Petersburg is at the forefront: the authorities there have not only opened this data to everyone, but also encourage developers of such projects (but ETranport on this moment considered to be the best in terms of functionality). In about 40 other cities, no one hides transport location data, but in Moscow they are practically classified.
In the next month we will launch ETranport in 11 more cities in Russia, but for now I cannot disclose information about which cities are included in this list. I think their residents will definitely not miss this event. In Moscow, for example, in the first four days we attracted more than 40 thousand users. Unfortunately, not everyone noticed that Moscow (as, by the way, St. Petersburg) is still in the beta testing stage, and the application does not yet have many stops and routes, and the information about the location of transport may differ from the real situation.
Promo video ETranport
In the future, we will definitely add to the application the function of constructing a point-to-point route, as well as the ability to calculate travel time and even warn your friends about how many minutes you will arrive. We will also remind users in advance that it is time to leave the house so as not to miss their tram, otherwise the next one will not arrive soon. We will pay more attention to ensuring that users can communicate with each other, choose the “King of the Roads” or the “Mayor of the Stop.” We want people to share valuable information with each other (for example, what the line is under control) and discuss various things like rude drivers and singing conductors.
There are five people in our team. I studied at the Gorky USU, where I met Maxim Rovkin, our Android developer. He brought an incredible server-man Pasha Dick to our team - on the eve of the most difficult test of the entire study period, he worked all night to ensure that our application launched in Moscow on time and without problems. It’s funny, but we first met our iOS developer Egor Eremeev in person after the release of the first version of ETransport. Egor and Max met when they took the Unified State Exam in different cities (Egor in Naberezhnye Chelny, and Maxim in Yekaterinburg), but with equal diligence they solved tests for Far East. Designer Pasha Osipkin found us himself - in January 2013, we received a letter from him in the mail, saying that your application is excellent, but the design is crap. So Pasha became part of our team, which we are still incredibly happy about.”
For several years, a meme picture has been circulating on the Internet - the emotional, obscene impressions of a provincial from Moscow. Among them there is the phrase: “Bus 483, that’s a damn number!” The logic behind the numbering of urban transport is indeed not always obvious. The Village found out on what basis numbers are assigned to buses, trolleybuses and trams.
Press service of State Unitary Enterprise "Mosgortrans"
All routes of urban passenger transport in the capital have single-digit, two-digit and three-digit numbers. This numbering has developed historically and does not change. On new routes, vehicles are assigned new numbers or numbers of previously canceled routes. All numbering is individual, but there are also coincidences: routes of different modes of transport can be designated the same way. So, tram No. 3, trolleybus No. 3 and bus No. 3 travel around the city, but they all follow different routes.
There is no need to assign four-digit numbers to new routes yet. There are, however, bus routes No. 1001, 1002 and 1004, which previously belonged to commercial carriers. In 2013, they were transferred to the management of Mosgortrans; for the convenience of passengers, the numbers were not changed.
Sometimes the specifics of a particular route are taken into account when numbering. For example, in Moscow there are several “social” directions of movement; they cover institutions of education, medicine, and social protection. The numbers of such routes begin with the letter C: C1, C2 and so on. There are also night routes of ground urban transport, these are buses No. H1, H2, H3. Letters are also used for shortened flights: they duplicate the busiest sections of the route. To make it easier for passengers to navigate, when entering such a route, the letter “k” (short) is added to the main number. There are, for example, bus route No. 709, which goes from the Orekhovo metro station to the Kashirskaya metro station, and there is No. 709k, which goes from the Orekhovo metro station to the Moskvorechye platform.
Konstantin Trofimenko
Director of the Center for Research on Transport Problems of Megacities at the Higher School of Economics
There is no special transport numbering system in Moscow - it is a wild mixture between route numbers from a hundred years ago, Stalin's, Brezhnev's and numbers from the 1990s. They all layered on top of each other.
There are also routes that are designated using letters. This may be a consequence of the fact that the transport route was once divided into two parts. It also happens that the route branches: the vehicle follows the route, and then its version, with the letter A added to its numbering, turns right. The option without such a letter continues to follow straight. All this, of course, causes confusion. City navigation is absolutely not user-friendly. If a person does not specialize in this topic, he is unlikely to know about any routes other than those that he needs.
In Soviet times, work was regularly carried out to optimize the urban transport system. They stopped doing this in the 90s, but now attempts are being resumed. Last year, not only the problem of transport numbering was raised, but also the question of the need for certain routes. It happens that they lose relevance: for example, there was a bus that took people to the factory. The enterprise was closed and people stopped going there, but the route continues to function. Does the city need it? But, unfortunately, so far this work has not led to a positive result.
Illustration: Nastya Grigorieva
You can also plot the route manually, armed with a map, pencil and ruler. But if you find yourself on the route planner page, then another, often more convenient option is possible - planning a route online, one of which is offered to you on our site.
There are two types of route planning: manual and automatic.
- When laying manually, you put a number of points on the map that form an arbitrary route.
- With automatic compilation, you need to specify the starting and ending points, and our service itself will plot the optimal route, calculating shortest way taking into account traffic rules and the current traffic situation.
On the compiled route you will see everything car roads and nearby intersections, which will be very useful for motorists and travelers. A map with a route in the city of Moscow will allow you to plan your route and prevent you from getting lost in an unfamiliar place.
To create a route on a map of the city of Moscow, enter the starting point in the first field of the form presented below and the ending point in the third field. Then indicate how you will move to the final goal by clicking on the appropriate button - “Car”, “On Foot” By public transport". After that, click on the "Show route" button.
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