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Prized car plates will be harder to obtain
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THE city is to further control the number of local car plates and will tighten the rights to use elevated roads in peak hours to relieve congestion.
The action is unveiled in the city’s 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) for a comprehensive transport system.
A mechanism is to be set up to link the number of Shanghai car plates issued every month to a “transportation congestion index,” which represents how roads are coping with traffic, and to adjust the number of car plates issued accordingly. Purchase limits for local car-plate bidders are also expected to be adjusted.
The measures are being taken to keep the rampant demand for plates under control. As of 2015, the city had 2.47 million locally registered cars, the plan says, of which 83.8 percent or 2.07 million of them were for private cars, according to the city’s traffic police. That number was up by 14.5 percent on 2014.
The latest tightening on purchase restrictions for car plates was released in June, with an auction process needed to obtain a Shanghai hukou or resident permit in Shanghai.
Local authorities will further tighten vehicles’ access to elevated ring roads during rush hours, the plan adds.
Locally registered cars have privileged rights to access elevated roads during rush hours. The plan does not specify whether restrictions will be expanded to locally registered cars, but says the authorities are still studying details of the policies. Measures including further optimizing parking spaces and levying parking fees are also expected to be introduced.
Moreover, public transport is to be further developed. About 55 percent of travel in the downtown will involve public transportation by 2020, with the Metro accounting for 60 percent of total public transport traffic, the plan says.
By 2020, the city plans to set up about 30 public transportation hubs, with bus-only lanes to reach 500 kilometers, and the Metro network to stretch 800km.
Metro interval times in downtown areas is to be cut to within three minutes in peak hours, and the Metro capacity in downtown in 2020 is to be increased by 30 percent from last year during peak hours.
More roads are to be added to the existing network. The city’s road network is expected to reach 5,500km by 2020, including a 60km-long express road network. The highway network is scheduled to be 14,500km by 2020.
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