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Damaged ring road is reopened to traffic
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THE part of the Middle Ring Road that was closed for repairs after it was damaged by an overloaded truck two weeks ago was reopened to traffic last night at 8pm, two hours earlier than scheduled, said officials.
“Given that all the work has completed, we decided to reopen it in advance to ease the traffic here,” Li Jun, deputy director of Shanghai Road Administration Bureau, who is in charge of the repair project, said yesterday.
"We were very lucky as the asphalting was finished just before the rain hit the city last night.”
The reopening of the elevated road is good news for students sitting the annual national college entrance exams tomorrow and Wednesday, as they will not have to worry about the road closure making them late.
Li said the final work on the stretch of road near Wenshui Road and Hutai Road, including removing steel supports, will be carried out after the exams.
"The work will be done at night from Thursday," Li said, adding that the final phase will last about week.
“I come here and check the repair work almost every day,” a local resident, Wang Fengchuan, 53, said. "The intersection was badly congested every day due to the damage. But now the traffic seems almost the same as before the damage."
Ten affected bus services, which were rerouted during the Middle Ring Road closure, will resume their normal routes today, according to Shanghai Ba-shi Public Transportation.
Meanwhile, Metro Line 7, which has also been affected by the incident, will continue to add extra trains during morning rush hours until Wednesday, to handle extra passenger traffic during the exams, the Metro operator said.
The Middle Ring Road from Hujia Overpass to Hutai Road was closed when it was severely damaged after a truck carrying about 100 tons of concrete tiles overturned near Hutai Road and Wenshui Road on May 23. Trucks are banned from traveling on elevated roads.
Monitoring equipment will be remain on the elevated road for a period of time to collect data on the repaired part.
“The most difficult part of the repair this time was the lifting,” Li said. “The damaged stretch was tilted and the center of gravity was not in the middle during the lifting, which makes it very likely to fall.”
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