by Yuri Popov (updated in January 2012)
After a decade of decline in 1990s, the situation with metro construction in St. Petersburg has substantially improved in recent years. The city rather than the federal government is now paying for the majority of the construction, and funding has increased over the last decade. Currently, metro construction budget has reached half a billion dollars a year. The main diversion from the new metro construction - the restoration of a collapsed segment of Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya line (Line 1) - is now successfully completed, and all the construction funding is spent on new stations. As of the time of this writing, the projected schedule of station openings is as follows:
August 2012 -- Line 5: stations "Bukharestskaya" and "Mezhdunarodnaya"
2016 -- Line 5: stations "Prospekt Slavy", "Dunayskaya", "Shushary", and a new yard
Later projects include (in no particular order):
- new line with the initial segment between "Moskovskiye Vorota" and "Kirovskiy Zavod"
- extension of Line 4 further west from "Spasskaya"
- extension of Line 5 further north from "Komendantskiy Prospekt"
- extension of Line 4 further south from "Ulitsa Dybenko"
All these segments are to be completed in the next 10-15 years, however, it is too early to quote any possible opening dates.