Driverless trams may be launched in testing mode in Moscow in the end of 2022 – in the beginning of 2023, declared Maksim Liksutov, the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport, at the discussion Robots in the City: The Future of Megacities with Autonomous Transport, held by the Noôdome community in Moscow.

According to the Moscow Department of Transport, the Russian capital has become one of the world leaders in the number of metro cars. Now there are 6,217 cars in 20 depots of the Moscow Metro. Almost 70% of these trains are of the new generation. At the same time, in 2023, the average age of the metro trains is going to decrease from 22.5 to 10 years.

In 2022 it is planned to build and reconstruct 10 stations on the prospective and existing Moscow Central Diameters (MCD). From some of the new stations it will be possible to make an interchange to the metro, the Moscow Central Circle (MCC) and other diameters.

The Moscow Department of Transport reports that, in 2021, headway in Moscow has become less than 4 minutes on 75% of tram routes, it is one of the lowest headways in the world.

According to the Moscow Department of Transport, 12.74 million rides in Moscow Metro were paid with biometrics.

The reverse train traffic was launched on 12 December in the Moscow center on the Belorusskaya – Savyolovskaya construction site of the Moscow Central Diameter 1 (MCD). Trains will run in both directions alternately on the same track. Such regime is necessary for the MCD-4 launch in 2023.

On December 7, the new Aminyevskaya station was opened on the Kievsky railway line, which will become part of the Moscow Central Diameter 4 (MCD) in the future. Its launch took place simultaneously with the launch of the eponymous station of the Big Circle Line. Both stations are connected by the underground passage, thanks to which passengers can get from one station to another in a couple of minutes without going outside.

On December 7, 2021, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin (via videoconference) and the Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin opened a section of the Big Circle Line of the Moscow Metro in the south and west of the city

The Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport Maksim Liksutov declared about Face Pay payment service is convenient and safe in the Moscow metro.

Moscow Metro is going to launch 10 stations of the Big Circle Line (BCL) this December, which will be the longest one put into operation at one time and its length will be more than 21 km.