An effect picture of the Southern Coastal Road.
I m declaring that the project of Dalian Southern Coastal Road starts! Yesterday morning, with an order given by Dalian Party secretary Xia Deren, the road project, with a total investment of 3.1 billion yuan, broke ground. Mayor Li Wancai said at the launching ceremony that, as an important transverse of the Dalian expressway network, the road will easily connect the western area with the central city to ease great traffic pressure from east to west. On the completion of the bridge, the road will become one of the new landmarks of Dalian and a new Xinghai Bay landscape to greatly improve the city s functions and image. Municipal leaders Li Jingrui, Wang Ping, Ju Wenhua, Zhang Jun and Shi Zhongyan attended the ceremony and laid the cornerstone of the project.
The Southern Coastal Road is an important transverse of Dalian s urban road traffic system seven verticals and seven horizontals and a major part of Dalian s future outer ring . It consists of two sections: land and sea, starting from Hekou at Dalian High-tech Industrial Zone, connecting with the seaside road under construction in the zone, crossing east at Linghe Street toward the southern waters, and then ending up east of Golden Pebble Beach, crossing the Forest Zoo through the tunnel to connect with the Dongbei Road in the north and the southern expressway.
It is said that the road is 13,526 meters long in total, of its land section, the west part is 5,562 meters and the east 2,978 meters; its sea section consists of a main bridge, an approach bridge and a circuit, with a total length of 4,986 meters, of which the main bridge is 1,486 meters long and both the approach bridge and circuit 3,500 meters. The main bridge is an anchored suspension bridge with two pylons and three spans, with a steel truss girder, and eight-lanes each way. The main span is 460 meters long and side spans 180 meters; pylons are 111.8 meters high; the main bridge is 30 meters above sea level and one km away from the Century Sculpture in straight-line distance in Xianghai Square. The approach bridge is in the form of a concrete box girder with span of 45 meters. The total planned investment for the project is 3.1 billion yuan, of which 2.5 billion yuan is for the offshore section; the road is expected to open to traffic in late 2012.
On completion of the road, much of the traffic flow from the roads of the main city area: Zhongshan Road, Gorky Road, Victory Road, South fast road, Bayi Road, Midsummer Road, Dongbei Road, etc, will go via it to the High-tech Industrial Zone and L shun; vice versa, roads from the High-tech Industrial Zone and L shun will be able to quickly and easily go in and out of the main city area. It will greatly ease traffic pressure on the West Zhongshan Road to make Dalian s urban traffic system more strategic and reasonable.
On behalf of the Dalian Party Committee and the Municipal Government, Li Wancai extended his congratulations on the project`s groundbreaking, and his sincere gratitude and highest respect to the builders taking part in the project planning, design, management and construction. Li said that, located pn the southern seaside of Dalian, the Southern Coastal Road will connect east with west to open another sea transport route for Dalian. At present, Dalian is implementing the strategy of the opening and development of the Liaoning Coastal Economic Zone, with macro-urbanization as a vehicle, pushing forward the construction of Three Centers, One Cluster and an eco-livable city, and striving for the new strategic development leap forward. With more opening-up, Dalian will constantly improve the level of urban construction and management, accelerate the construction of functional infrastructure, and create an iconic urban landscape to improve the city s attraction and capacity.
Li continued that the Dalian Party Committee and the Municipal Government attach great importance to the project, taking it as a municipal key project. We will spare no efforts to step it up, to co-ordinate arrangements, to meticulously organize and to strengthen management for a strong guarantee of a smooth project; we should push forward the construction to high-quality, high-level and high efficiency, ensuring quality engineering.
