MINSK, 30 December (BelTA) – After a solemn ceremony to open a new section of the Minsk metro system Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko went to see the new stations, BelTA has learned.
Before going to the platform of the metro station Aerodromnaya the head of state was given a limitless season ticket.
“If I retire, I will use the metro with this card,” Aleksandr Lukashenko accepted the travel document.
“Natalya Ivanovna [Kochanova, Chairwoman of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus], do these stations look decent?” the president wondered.
“Of course. All the visitors say that we have a magnificent metro. Nobody else has a metro like that: it is clean and accurate,” the head of the upper chamber of the parliament responded.
At the platform the president took part in a solemn ceremony to inaugurate a new section of the Minsk metro.
“Thank you for giving me an opportunity to give these gifts to our Belarusians ahead of New Year. Well, and to us, of course. I will not drive all over Minsk in a car all the time. I have already been given a season ticket. I will start using the metro at some point. You will give me a ride. I may have done something for this construction project. This is why let’s make plans together to develop this expensive but very necessary and convenient kind of transportation for our Minsk residents,” Aleksandr Lukashenko told construction workers and metro workers.
After that the head of state went to see the stations that had been built. “Let’s go!” he said, giving a wave with his hand before boarding the train.
The construction of the 4.08km-long section of the third line of the Minsk metro system from the Aerodromnaya station to the Slutsky Gostinets station began in August 2017. About 90% of the equipment and materials used during the construction process is of Belarusian make.
The completion of this section of the third line allows offering fast transportation from the Kurasovshchina area and the Minsk Mir area to other parts of the city. A transport triangle has been created in the center of the city, with transfer stations serving as its corners: Oktyabrskaya-Kupalovskaya, Ploshchad Lenina-Vokzalnaya, Frunzenskaya-Yubileinaya Ploshchad. The passenger traffic at the existing transfer station between the second line and the third line is expected to go down.
The third line of the metro system boasts a new generation of technological solutions, high automation of management processes and control of engineering equipment. It has smart systems for managing the train traffic, passage payments, fire safety, new solutions for transferring and processing data about the work of all the metro systems. Automatic doors have been installed on the platform to serve as barriers for the sake of passenger safety.
Various interior design solutions have been implemented at the station. For instance, the Slutsky Gostinets metro station’s interior design boasts a collection of historic metaphors, quotes in ultramodern shapes and colors. Slutsk sashes are believed to be part of the famous historic heritage. Some of the patterns used by the sashes have been borrowed by the station’s interior design.
A garden is the main artistic idea of the interior design of the Nemorshansky Sad metro station. An image of modern life and culture is influenced by ecologization. Although the space of the station is not connected to the outdoor environment, the designers were intent on creating a mood of being in a garden under the shade of trees and creating an emotional connection to the outdoor environment.
In turn, the Aerodromnaya metro station’s design is built around the idea of flying. The key element of the interior design of the station’s platform is floating rectangular lights on an aluminum floating ceiling with a mirror surface in the central part of the dome of the platform section.
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