City busy with urban construction
10/4/2003 15:05
A total of 18 urban construction projects are underway throughout the
city, says the Shanghai Engineering Administrative Bureau.
The Lupu
Bridge and Outer-Ring Road Tunnel, currently under construction, will be open to
traffic by the end of June, the bureau announced yesterday.
They also
said that the Dalian Road Tunnel, currently under construction, will open by the
end of September. This means that, by year's end, there will be nine connections
across the Huangpu River from downtown to Pudong, up from six
currently.
Construction of a 39-kilometer highway connecting the area
near Tongji University in the northeast and Anting in the northwest is underway.
The highway, forming the north part of a 200-kilometer suburban ring linking
counties surrounding Shanghai, will open to traffic at the end of 2004.
Work on the middle ring road between the existing inner and outer ring
roads started early this month in the northeast Wujiaochang area, and will be in
full swing next year. The Puxi section of the middle ring road will be complete
in 2005 and the Pudong section will be finished in 2007, when the entire ring
road will open to traffic.
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