Beijing takes steps to ease its worst traffic month
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BEIJING has entered its most congested month for traffic as students began a new school term yesterday, although traffic was down from September 1 last year.
The traffic index during the morning rush hour on Thursday reached 7.4, 1.4 points lower than expected, said Zhou Zhengyu, director of the city’s transportation commission. The number is 15 percent lower than the same period last year. The traffic index ranges from 0 to 10, with 10 representing the worse congestion.
The commission said September was “the most congested month” because of shopping sprees and family visits ahead of the Mid-Autumn Festival on September 15 and National Day on October 1, in addition to school-related traffic.
To ease gridlock, Beijing has added 3,380 bus trips during rush hours this month. Other long-term measures to reduce congestion in the capital are in place or planned.
In February, the Beijing municipal government released a 46-point plan to ease congestion, including unblocking dead-end roads and improving the connectivity of side roads.
The total length of the capital’s cycle lane system will be extended to 500 kilometers this year and 3,000km by 2020, when the number of bicycles on roads is expected to reach 100,000.
The city will build 1,000km of urban rail lines over the next four years in the aim of making urban rail traffic account for 60 percent of public transportation.
According to traffic statistics, the average traffic index in the first half of this year was 5.2, down 10.3 percent from the same period last year.
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