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danielh@eden.rutgers.edu (Daniel Horowitz) writes:

>European holiday, and spent 4 days in St. Petersburg.  They recently
>had to close off a section of one of the lines.  I'm tempted to say
>that it was the red/number 1 line (Devyatkino-Prospect Veteranov), but
>don't count me on that one.  (An American surrounded by cyrillic leads
>to one confused American :-).  Due to the water table rising, they had
>to seal the tunnel off for a couple of stops, and are using bus
>service to replace the closed metro section.  The section that is
>closed is north of downtown, and I think the closed section starts at
>Ploschad Lenina, but once again, I'm not too certain.


After further investigation by digging through the on-line archives of
the St. Petersburg Press, I discovered that I wasn't too far from the
truth.  I gave the right termini of the line, but the official name is
the Kirovskso-Vyborgskaya line.  Metro service has been suspended from
Ploshchad Lenina and Akademicheskaya, which means that 4 stations are
not being serviced by metro, only by bus.  If you want to see the
crowding situation, go to http://www.spb.su/sppress/136/metro.jpg .
I can vouch that the crowding situation hasn't eased up too much 6
months later (the tunnel flooded early December, 1995).
Unfortunately, I still can't find out how long the escalators are over
there, but I thought I'd clear up the facts I gave earlier.

-Dan H.
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