Smart highway links Olympic cities
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The distance between two cities cannot be shortened, but the travel time can.
That was the commitment made by the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Bid Committee in 2015, when Beijing and the city of Zhangjiakou won the co-bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Their commitment has become a reality, as an expressway connecting Beijing鈥檚 Yanqing District and Zhangjiakou鈥檚 Chongli District, two venues for the event, has cut the travel time to merely one hour.
Zhao Shuang, a Beijing resident, said that with the opening of the new road, he can drive northward to beat the heat in summer and ski in winter.
鈥淭he expressway not only saves driving time but also gives me new ways to spend my weekend,鈥 said Zhao, 31.
The artery section of the Yanqing-Chongli Expressway, which opened to traffic in January 2020, has become an example of a green and smart infrastructure project.
Du Hejun, chief engineer of the expressway project from a construction company affiliated with the Beijing Capital Highway Development Group Co, Ltd, said the routing and the bridges and tunnels of the road were designed to minimize the environmental impact.
鈥淲e saved as much construction land as possible and the tunnel gates have been all greened to go with the landscape. These details have echoed the concept of 鈥榞reen Winter Olympics.鈥欌
Full coverage of the BeiDou Satellite Navigation System services has been realized along the road, which is equipped with numerous cameras, radars and other road monitoring and sensing facilities.
The expressway has also facilitated the development of Chongli, a formerly impoverished area some 220 kilometers from Beijing.
Local villager Xie Ting no longer has to toil in the fields and has become a skiing instructor.
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