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Original title: Eight roads were completed and opened to traffic, including the Chengyi Expressway. Sichuan Expressway operating mileage exceeded 8,000 kilometers
Source: Sichuan Daily
On the morning of December 31, 2020, the opening of the Chengdu-Yibin Expressway took place. The line was officially connected to the network at midnight on the same day, marking that the operating mileage of the highways throughout the province exceeded 8,000 kilometers, reaching 8,140 kilometers.
Chengyi Expressway is an important part of the “two corridors and four passages” of the highway channel design to the south of Sichuan, and the most convenient connecting channel between the Chengdu Plain Economic Zone and the Chengdu Plain Economic Zone. south of Sichuan. The route starts at the Chengdu Economic Zone Ring Highway (the “Three Windings” in Chengdu) and reaches Yibin via Chengdu, Meishan, Neijiang and Zigong. It has a total length of approximately 157 kilometers, six lanes in both directions and a design speed of 120 kilometers per hour. After opening to traffic, it takes about 90 minutes to get to Yibin from Chengdu, saving 1 hour than before.
The same day, Chengzi-Yu Expressway, Tianfu Airport Expressway (Tianfu Main Line and Branch Section), Wenma Expressway Shiziping Tunnel, Chengdu Economic Zone Ring Expressway, Deyang-Jianyang Section and Pujiang Section- Dujiangyan, Western Section of Yibin City Transit Highway, Renmuxin Seven highway projects were also completed and opened to traffic, including the Xiaogu to Muchuan section and the Mabian branch section. In addition to the Panzhihua-Dali Expressway, the Guang’an Transit and the Yu-Guang Branch (Qianfeng interchange with the Sichuan-Chongqing boundary section) that were previously connected to the network, this year a total of 10 highway projects throughout the province, covering 620 kilometers. The reporter learned from the Department of Transportation that during the period of the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan”, 4,400 kilometers of roads were built in the province, with a total mileage of almost 12,000 kilometers built and under construction, and the mileage of the newly inaugurated traffic exceeded the 2,100 kilometers. “In the end, an increase of 35%, the total mileage of the roads open to traffic in the province ranks third in the country.
During the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” period, the province added 7 new highways outside of Sichuan, including 5 in Chongqing, 1 in Guizhou and 1 in Yunnan. There are 24 expressways outside of Sichuan in the province; Ganzi and Aba prefectures are accessible With motorways, all 21 cities (states) are covered by motorways. There are 11 new highways in Tongda County, reaching 136.
Currently, 36 highway projects are under construction in the province with a total mileage of 3,520 kilometers. Once these projects are completed, the total mileage of the expressways in the province will reach 11,000 kilometers, and basically the pattern of the strategic transport channel “four directions and eight corridors” will take shape.
Vice Governor Yang Hongbo attended the event and announced the opening of 8 highways.(Reporter Wang Meiling)
