Troitskaya line
The Troitskaya line (, lit. Trinity) (Line 16, previously Kommunarskaya line, , lit. Communards) is an under-construction line of the Moscow Metro that will initially extend to the settlement of Kommunarka in the Novomoskovsky Administrative Okrug, or New Moscow from Novatorskaya station. Future expansion plans will extend the line to the town of Troitsk. The city is constructing the line with a planned opening in 2023–2024. Current timeline The initial stage of the line will cover from Moscow to Kommunarka and have seven stations. The city projects completion in 2023-2024 at a cost of 49.8 billion rubles. Development Following the expansion of the city of Moscow, which doubled the city’s size, the city administration sought to increase public transit into the area, known as New Moscow. In 2014, the Mayor of Moscow, Sergey Sobyanin, undertook a visit to China where he signed an agreement with the China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) and China International Fund to build a line to New Moscow and finance construction by developing real estate at the stations. With the fall of the ruble in late 2014, negotiations over costs were held up and the Deputy Mayor for Construction Marat Khusnullin announced that the city would