Guangzhou will stop allowing vehicles with odd-and-even- number plates on alternate days today and Metro security checks tomorrow after the measures were imposed for almost two months during the Asian Games and Asian Para Games, the New Express reported yesterday.
In a move to create a less congested and polluted host city for the 16th Asian Games and the 2010 Asian Para Games, Guangzhou limited the number of cars on city roads with an odd-and-even-number plate system from Nov. 1 to 29 and from Dec. 5 to 21.
Guangzhou Metro Corp. and local police placed 321 X-ray security check machines at 145 stations and 398 exits.
More than 7,600 staff were employed for Metro security checks and the average daily passenger flow was 4.2 million, the newspaper quoted Guangzhou Metro sources as saying.
Hou Yongquan, director of the Guangzhou municipal construction committee, said Monday that to provide an ambient environment, there would be no grand construction projects in downtown Guangzhou next year but the city would continue renovating old areas and building outlying road networks.
Hou said to let locals continue enjoying the night scenes and lights at major tourist attractions, landmarks and main roads would remain on until 10:30 p.m. on normal nights and 11 p.m. on festival nights.
Subsidies from the municipal government would cover some of the electricity expenses, Hou said.
(By Cao Zhen)
