ABSTRACT
In accordance with the new Moscow Master Plan, extensive trunk street/road development program is underway in the city.
A trend seems to evolve for new trunk roads to be laid in tunnels crossing the whole city districts and leaving intact both the habitat and surface buildings, man-made structures and architectural monuments; it means that there appear long trunk road urban tunnels. This is particularly important for such a complex urban body as Moscow where the historically formed ring/radial trunk street system makes it insistent to create a transportation system capable of providing for both perfect traffic control and links between peripheral districts and the centre.
