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Beijing Releases its New Transport Construction Plan

Beijing is to newly built 8 subways, open up 650 public transportation lines and 1.5 million berths for cars and expand the Capital Airport���� the "Transport Construction and Traffic Management Plan" (Draft) is issued here by Beijing Municipal Government and BOCOG for public comments and proposals on an extensive scale.


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Beijing is to newly built 8 subways, open up 650 public transportation lines and 1.5 million berths for cars and expand the Capital Airport���� the "Transport Construction and Traffic Management Plan" (Draft) is issued here by Beijing Municipal Government and BOCOG for public comments and proposals on an extensive scale.

Rail transportation to link directly up with the Capital Airport
The plan proposes to improve the forming of ways in transportation for city-dwellers. It relies mainly on speedy rail-carriages and public-buses to form a transportation system for some 60 percent of the townspeople to go to work and return home while given a suitable guidance to the development for controlled-use of private cars.

To achieve the goal, it is to newly build 8 subways including: Subway Nos.5, 4, 9 and 10 plus the Subway leading from Bawangfen to Tongzhou, feeder line for Olympic transport, the line to Yizhuang and special line to the Capital Airport. The total rail-transportation in the city will exceed 300 kilometers by the year 2008 and to fulfill an annual passenger transport volume of 1.8 to 2.2 billion person/times. With 650 lines and a line-density of 2.16 kilometers/per square kilometer, the transportation capacity of public buses in the city will reach 4.5 billion person/times. As a means for urban transportation, the taxi-service in Beijing will be developed in a pattern of high efficiency, low consumption, safety and good for environment protection and up to the international service standard. The medium-and-high-grade cars will make up 70 percent of the total taxes running in the city and with 70 percent to use the cleaned fuel.

Car-berth for personal use to reach 100 percent
The plan has also defined a goal for raising the outgoing and incoming efficiency of townspeople, i.e. the speed of vehicles along the high-speed roads in the city to reach 35-50 kilometers/hour during peak traffic hours and 20 kilometers/hour for ordinary roads. It won't take more than 50 minutes for people on the way to work and return home within the fifth-ring road and it requires only about one hour to drive from the 10 suburban county and district centers into the city.

To achieve the purpose it has been put forward in the plan to construct and reconstruct some 318 kilometers of roads in the city and by the year 2008, the road density within the fifth-ring road will have to reach 2.62 kilometers/per square kilometers. At the same time, primary attention will be given to the construction of roads for bikes and pavements for pedestrians. By the year 2008, the car-berths for city-dwellers to use at night will have to reach 1.5 millions in number with its rate of sufficiency to rise from the present 66 percent to 100 percent. The vehicle-berths for public use will come to some 225,000 in number with its ratio as against the number of vehicles to increase to 15 percent from the 12 percent.

Airport to be expanded into an air-hub in northeast Asia
The plan has put forward a target to make Beijing a composite air-hub and a ground transportation hub by the year 2008. In the years to come, the rail construction in Beijing is to focus on that of high-speed railway from Beijing to Shanghai to be connected with Beijing railway hinge, to build a special railroad for passenger transportation between Beijing and Tianjin. A direct subway from Beijing Railway Station to the Beijing Western Railway Station is going to be constructed. In addition, there are still the renovation projects for Beijing Railway Station, Beijing Railway Station North and Beijing Railway Station South and the project for raising the speed along the Beijing-Qinhuangdao Railway, etc.

With the aim to build a large-scale composite airport in northeast Asia the Capital International Airport will be expanded so as to meet the needs of the 2008 Olympic Games and for social economic development. Under the prerequisite condition for the Capital International Airport to become by and large a composite type, the medium and long-term plan is to build it into an airport with an annual passenger flow of 60 - 65 million, a throughput capacity of goods to some 1.8 - 2 million tons and an annual taking-off and landing of 500,000 - 600,000 sorties.

The "Transportation Construction and Traffic Management Plan" (Draft) in both Chinese and English versions are issued on the BOCOG website. Please log onto http//www.beijing-2008.org. for details. Your comments and proposals are warmly welcomed through the hotline: 68052299 ext. 6550 to contact us.

By People's Daily Online


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