Shenzhen constructs more than 30 railway and expressway routes to neighboring cities
Shenzhen is speeding up the construction of more than 30 railway and expressway routes to neighboring cities.
Intercity traffic volume between the Guangdong province metropolis and the cities of Dongguan and Huizhou amounts to about 1.36 million people every day, according to Shenzhen's transportation bureau. Most are business travelers and an intercity commuting model has begun to take shape, it said in a statement.
With the development and integration of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the bureau estimates that traffic between the three cities will reach about 5.2 million people per day by 2035, and commuters will hit the 3 million mark.
Road travel accounts for about 85 percent of the journeys made in the area and so reinforcing road connectivity is one of the main tasks.
The number of cross-city expressways and roads will rise respectively to 12 and 44 from the current combined total of 35.
In addition, train routes will increase from 4 to 15 routes, and about 17 urban metro facilities in the three cities will be extended to link to each other.
Ten intercity metro projects are under construction in Shenzhen this year with a total length of about 351 kilometers and an investment of about 187.2 billion yuan ($27.7 billion), as reported by China Daily, a partner of TV BRICS.
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