New Beijing-Tibet expressway project

New Beijing-Tibet expressway project

• Source: Global Times
• [10:44 March 11 2011]
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A project on a section of the Beijing-Tibet expressway to ease traffic congestion has been given the green light.

The proposed 217 km six-lane expressway extension will link Beijing with Hohhot, capital of Inner Mongolia, officials of the Inner Mongolia Expressway Construction Development team said on Wednesday.

In addition to being part of the Beijing-Tibet expressway, the company said the expressway will also form part of the planned Beijing-Xinjiang Expressway, which is to link Beijing with Urumqi, capital of northwest Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, by 2013.

The extension is expected to ease traffic congestion on the Inner Mongolia section of the Beijing-Tibet Expressway, which last year saw coal trucks queued up along it for days. A 120-km stretch of the expressway was gridlocked, attracting worldwide media attention.

Chinese authorities started in October last year to expand the existing section of the Beijing-Tibet Expressway in Inner Mongolia from four to eight lanes.

Xinhua