PORT

The port is an edge, and a destination. It is a space enclosed on one side and wide open on the other. The experience of being on an edge is a unique setting creating specific experiences for users. It is a space to meet and encounter, to eat and drink; to watch and wait.
There are carefully identified 38 ports, including 1 le major City-ports and 27 district ports. Four main guiding criteria were used to identify the location: private and public transport accessibility, nature of existing land-use, strategic adjacencies and iconic locations.

Ports were located in places where synergies between adjacent land-uses were identified and where the port could play a major role in connecting the land-uses; a major retail hub with a major public park, a cultural district with a major residential community, etc..
Ports are by nature gateways to the City and iconic locations were identified along the river to re-enforce that role, create a stronger river-scape and unlock the role of ports as development catalysts for wider territories.

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INFRASTRUCTURAL RENOVATION

One of the key features of the masterplan is to improve transport facilities across, along and around the Moscow River.The design includes a proposal to develop the infrastructure of local metro, bus and tram routes and water transport, a network of active corridors to develop walking and cycling infrastructure both along and on the way to the river, and a series of ports which will connect the major nodes of their masterplan with a ferry and high-speed water transport.
There is also a proposal for a ‘Naturalization of Moscow River’, to create a naturalized edge to the north embankment (or the part of the city) and a number of ecological islands, directed into the southern side of the river bank.