In Irkutsk they plan to build an aerial metro to help solve traffic jams by 2011. The 125 kilometer cableway will pass through the busiest districts of the city, and its capacity will be 25 thousand people per hour. The project includes 14 stations and eight routes, including from Novo Lenino to Topkinsky, from Sinyushina Gora to Solnechny and from Zhilkino to the airport. Funds have already been allocated from the city budget, and the total cost of the project will exceed 6 billion rubles.
The traffic jam problem in Irkutsk will be solved as early as 2011. The cableway will run through the busiest parts of the city, with a total length of 125 kilometers.By 2009, an aerial metro will be built in Irkutsk. The cableway will be built on the principle of a three-cable high-speed line, with a capacity of 25,000 people per hour.
The 14 cableway stations will be located in the busiest districts of the city - on Lenin Street, Karl Marx Street, 1st Sovetskaya, Baikalskaya, etc. It is assumed that initially the aerial metro will consist of eight routes:
Novo-Lenino → Topkinsky
Sinyushina Gora → Solnechny
Irkutsk II → Yubileiny
Zhilkino → Airport
Solnechny → Pervomaysky
Yubileiny → Markovo settlement
Rabocheye → Central Market
Batareynaya → Molodezhny
The station area will be 2,000 square meters. The speed of the aerial metro is 8 meters per second, or 60 kilometers per hour. The metro will be located at a 45-degree incline.
The cost of one kilometer of the route is 50 million rubles. The money for the construction of the Aerial Metro has already been allocated from the city budget. In total, more than 6 billion rubles will be spent on building the metro.