Discussions and studies regarding a transit link to the airport had been ongoing since the 1980s.
The lines are often the only transit link to the nearest subway station.
For high attendance events extra transit links are offered from shopping centres and other locations.
As a result, reliable transit links were established between the northern and southern ends of the island, supporting the increasing population.
Work on the streets, utilities and other improvements, including a transit link paid for by the city, has been under way for two years.
Moscow is planning to become a key transit link for trade between the European Union and China.
There have also been several proposals for creating a rapid transit link to the university.
Off-the-river projects, she added, "can get away without water views" if they compensate on price and are close to other amenities, like transit links.
Despite these excellent transit links and the availability of land, industrial development was still slow to take root.
The two countries have since restored transit links and taken other confidence-building measures.