MOSCOW, February 9. The regulatory burden on weight-bearing underground construction of the Moscow metro is maxed out in those places, where they placed the objects of unauthorized construction. This was announced Thursday the first Deputy head of the state unitary enterprise Moscow metro Yuri Degtyarev.
Dangerous for the metro and for the people
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“These facilities pose a high risk to the safety and health of passengers of the Moscow metro. This is due to the excess of the regulatory load bearing underground structure metro, a violation access required for the operation of utilities, violation of the evacuation fire alarms and anti-terrorism activities”, – said Degtyarev.
He also stressed that the objects of unauthorized construction more difficult, and in some cases make impossible the entrance of the emergency equipment necessary for emergency response and ensure proper maintenance of engineering structures underground. “The construction of these facilities was not envisaged in the projects of Moscow metro”, – said Degtyarev. He added that the areas liberated from self-building, will be landscaped urban organizations and the Moscow metro, if the areas within his jurisdiction.
On the demolition of illegal buildings
In the night of 8 to 9 February in Moscow began the dismantling of the 97 objects of unauthorized construction. In December, the Moscow government adopted the decree “About measures on provision of demolition of unauthorized constructions on certain territories of the city of Moscow”, providing for the demolition of 104 objects.
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Earlier, first Deputy head state inspection for control over use of objects of real estate of Moscow Timur Zeldich explained that “these objects are illegally constructed on three characteristics: the land plots for capital construction the city had not provided, permission for the construction of capital facilities and the acts of commissioning of objects of capital construction has not been issued”.
In the list of objects subject to demolition, were the shopping center “Pyramid” at metro station “Pushkin”, built above the entrance of metro station “Sukharevskaya”, building on the area of Savelovsky station, the extension to the subway station “Sokol”, the stalls near the metro station “Kropotkin”, “Arbat” and “Ulitsa 1905 goda”, etc.
