Shanghai To Add Extensive Bus-Only Lanes

Plans for 300 kilometers of the public transit lanes would be complete by 2010, easing congestion in the daily seven million passenger load.

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March 3, 2006, 8:00 AM PST

By David Gest

"THE city government aims to double the efficiency of public buses and make them less crowded during rush hour by adding public-bus-only traffic lanes and rebuilding terminal stations by 2010, traffic engineers said yesterday.

The city plans to create 300 kilometers of bus-only traffic lanes over the next several years. Currently, there are only about 30 kilometers of bus-only lanes in the city."

"'Hopefully, the plan will double the speed of numbered buses and make them less crowded during rush hour,' Cai Yifeng, a city planner with the Shanghai Transportation Planning Institute, said yesterday."

FULL STORY: More bus-only lanes aimed to double speed, efficiency

Friday, March 3, 2006 in Shanghai Daily

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