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Plan to tackle Expo bottleneck
By Yang Jian |
January 16, 2009, Friday
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THE Shanghai government may adjust the working hours of businesses during World Expo 2010 to avoid traffic jams, Shanghai Vice Mayor Yang Xiong said yesterday.
Detailed plans are still under discussion, Yang said at yesterday's session of the Shanghai People's Congress.
Businesses may be asked to stagger their working hours based on how close they are to the Expo site, said Zhang Qiqin, the member of the Shanghai People's Congress who made the proposal.
Companies near the Expo site could start work 30 minutes later and those farther away up to an hour later, Zhang said, so that employees would not be using public transport at the same time as the hundreds of thousands of expected Expo visitors.
During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Beijing government ordered state-owned enterprises to operate from 9am to 5pm, large shopping centers to open at 10am and other institutions to work from 9:30am. Government departments and schools were not asked to alter opening times.
Private vehicles were banned on alternate days during the Games. Beijing's stipulations proved effective in terms of both traffic management and environmental conditions during the Olympics.
The Expo site will open at 9am every day, the same time as the morning rush hour. More than 80 percent of people in the city go to work between 8:30am and 9am and finish work between 5pm and 5:30pm, she said.
The Expo site will run from 9am to midnight, while the pavilions inside the site will open from 9:30am until 10:30pm.
Expo 2010, which will run for six months, is expected to attract more than 400,000 people on average every day. The number will reach more than 600,000 on peak days.
Transporting all the Expo visitors plus local office workers will be a huge challenge for the city's public transport system, especially the Metro lines, Zhang said.
More than half of all Expo visitors are expected to get to the site on the Metro.
During morning peak hours, the Shanghai Metro carries about 220,000 people each hour. If half of the Expo visitors go to the site at its opening time, there will be about 50 percent more passengers using the subway during the morning rush hour.
Detailed plans are still under discussion, Yang said at yesterday's session of the Shanghai People's Congress.
Businesses may be asked to stagger their working hours based on how close they are to the Expo site, said Zhang Qiqin, the member of the Shanghai People's Congress who made the proposal.
Companies near the Expo site could start work 30 minutes later and those farther away up to an hour later, Zhang said, so that employees would not be using public transport at the same time as the hundreds of thousands of expected Expo visitors.
During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Beijing government ordered state-owned enterprises to operate from 9am to 5pm, large shopping centers to open at 10am and other institutions to work from 9:30am. Government departments and schools were not asked to alter opening times.
Private vehicles were banned on alternate days during the Games. Beijing's stipulations proved effective in terms of both traffic management and environmental conditions during the Olympics.
The Expo site will open at 9am every day, the same time as the morning rush hour. More than 80 percent of people in the city go to work between 8:30am and 9am and finish work between 5pm and 5:30pm, she said.
The Expo site will run from 9am to midnight, while the pavilions inside the site will open from 9:30am until 10:30pm.
Expo 2010, which will run for six months, is expected to attract more than 400,000 people on average every day. The number will reach more than 600,000 on peak days.
Transporting all the Expo visitors plus local office workers will be a huge challenge for the city's public transport system, especially the Metro lines, Zhang said.
More than half of all Expo visitors are expected to get to the site on the Metro.
During morning peak hours, the Shanghai Metro carries about 220,000 people each hour. If half of the Expo visitors go to the site at its opening time, there will be about 50 percent more passengers using the subway during the morning rush hour.
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