Lobby of the Metro station "Smolenskaya" closed for repairs until mid-2013,

Vestibule of the station "Smolenskaya" Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line of the Moscow metro closed for replacement of escalators until mid-2013, reported in the blog of the Metropolitan Subway.

"Closing the lobby station" Smolenskaya "to replace the eskalatornyh complexes is planned after the construction and opening of the second vestibule station in mid-2013," the statement said.

At present, capital Metro is escalators overhaul. Total by the end of March 2012, it is planned to renovate 18 escalators. The station will not close.

Last year, the head of the Metropolitan Subway Ivan Besedin claimed that Metro began its selection of sites in the capital, where there are plans to produce the escalators. Currently, the escalators for the Moscow subway has been supplying Petersburg company "Èles", which is unable to cope with the increased needs of the city, which in the next five years is to increase the length of subway at 75 kilometres. The Metro intended to build capacities on manufacture of escalators in Moscow.

Topic: "Smolenskaya"