Ningbo Railway Station Hub to be completed
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- Category: Ningbo News
- Published: Tuesday, 15 September 2015 08:51
After about five years of construction, Ningbo Railway Station, the largest transportation hub of Ningbo, will be fully completed by the end of September, becoming a new landmark for the city integrating railway, rail transit, and the bus system.
With the installation of the escalator, the laying of the comprehensive communications lines and the asphalting of the surrounding roads, the construction of the North Square of Ningbo Railway Station is coming to a concluding part.
"According to the current progress of the project, the transportation hub will be completed and put into used at the end of this month." said Ni Wei, General Director of the Commanding Office of the Ningbo Railway Station Hub Construction, who is conducting an on-spot working meeting on the morning of September 9.
In October 2010, the reconstruction and extension project of the 51-year-old Ningbo Railway Station was started. With an investment of 12 billion yuan, the new railway station hub project covers an area of 280,000 square meters, with the north square and the south square, connecting Rail Transit No.2 and No.4, the coach station, the urban buses, slow traffic and eight linking roads. By the end of 2013, the railway station and the south square had been put into use. And in May 2015, the coach station was completed and put into operation.
Then in mid-June, the municipal party committee and the municipal government put forward the proposal to complete the hub construction and the supporting projects ahead of schedule by the end of September. The Northern Square, as an important part of the hub, is located to the west of Moonlake Building, to the east of Cangsong Road and to the south of West Railway Station Road. Compared with the Southern Square, it has more functions, including the circulation of the buses, taxi, private cars and residents, the business stores, and the linking with the Rail Transit No.2 and No.4. In the future, the underground space of the Northern Square will be connected with the block of the former South Coach Station.
It is reported that the other supporting projects to be completed at the same time with the Northern Square include the northern passenger platform, the Rail Transit No.2, the viaduct and tunnel of the Xiayu Road (connecting the Airport Expressway and Yongda Road), and the West Railway Station Road
