Another 40 kilometers to be added as bus lanes
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- Category: Ningbo News
- Published: Tuesday, 03 June 2014 14:29
It is learned from the press conference by Ningbo Government News Office that in 2014, Ningbo will start the construciton of the nine out of the 12 dead-end roads, complete the goal of building 30,000 affordable houses and realize an investment of 47 billion yuan in the major function blocks.
In accordance with the objectives and tasks for 2014, Ningbo will invest 29.26 billion yuan in major urban construction projects and 206.4 billion yuan in the modern urban “50100 project” plan, covering urban comprehensive traffci construction, central urban quality improvement, affordable housing and functional block development.
To deal with the traffic congestion and construct the national bus city, Ningbo will extend the bus lanes with another 40 kilometers. So far, the design of the bus lane between Lianfeng Road and Liuting Street has been completed, and the plan for those of the Xinxing Road and Tongtu Road has been approved. The passenger bypass around the No.1 Hospital has been put into use and the bypass around the Women and Children's Hospital has been designed. Over 3000 public parking places are now under construction to relieve the difficulty for parking in 23 old resident communities.
As for the waterfront lesiure belt construciton, one of the major improvement project for the central urban area, the section along the Fenghua River has been completed and put into use, while the section along the eastern bank of Yaojiang River (Jiefang Bridge to Xinjiang Bridge) has started construction.
