Commission to study success of non-local car plate restrictions
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THE Shanghai Transport Commission said yesterday if the new rules for outstation car plates fail to deliver the desired results an even more stricter ban will be enforced.
The commission said it will monitor road traffic for three months after the new road restrictions for vehicles without Shanghai plates are enforced.
Starting tomorrow, vehicles with non-local plates will be barred from expressways from 7am to 10am and from 4pm to 7pm — a two-hour extension from the current limits which are 7:30am to 9:30pm and 4:30pm to 6:30pm.
There were approximately about 1 million cars in the city with out-of-Shanghai number plates at the end of last year, while the number of local plate cars was about 2 million.
Sun Jianping, commission chief, said he will consider further action if the congestion on the roads does not ease.
“We have been studying alternate plans including introducing longer restriction time on expressways for outstation registered vehicles. We may even consider banning vehicles from some areas of the city besides the elevated ways,” Sun told People’s Radio Station of Shanghai yesterday morning.
“But our task is not only to enforce tighter restrictions. We want to encourage citizens to take public transport more often. It is a far better solution to ease road congestion for a metropolis city like Shanghai,” Sun said.
Sun described 2015 as a “year of pain” for Shanghai, given the number of road construction projects in the city, including the Beiheng Passage and the renovation of the Yan’an Road E. Tunnel. There is also about 168 kilometers of Metro tracks being built in Shanghai this year.
“Our data shows, half of the city’s commuters are taking public transportation to work now. Among them, over 50 percent prefer the Metro. The figures already meet our expectations of a wider use of the public transport in the city,” Sun said.
Shanghai’s 548km subway system ferries between 9 to 10 million passengers on workdays.
“With the extension of Metro lines, by 2020, the figure should be 12 to 15 million a day,” Sun said.
Sun said the commission was also studying other ways to ease the road traffic. He said about 100 kilometers of bus-only lanes will be put into place this year. The commission will also consider enforcing one-way traffic on some downtown roads.
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