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BRIEF ON PROPOSED LINGDING YANG BRIDGE, ZHUHAI
The Zhuhai municipality is situated in the southern part of Guangdong province and on the western coast of Pearl River Estuary. It faces Hong Kong on the east across the sea and is bounded on the south by Macao. Measuring from Xiangzhou district which is located at the heart of the city proper, it is about 140 km south of Guangzhou, 36 nautical miles west of Hong Kong and 7 km north of Macao.
The proposed Lingding Yang Bridge will link up Zhuhai and Hong Kong, and this project is currently the largest cross- estuary project of China.
In March 1993, હૈ Preliminary Feasibility Study Report on the proposed project was considered and endorsed by famous professional experts and academics of the nation. In May 1993, the Report was submitted to Guangdong and Beijing for approval.
1.
The significance of the project
(i)
To reduce traffic pressure between Guangdong and Hong Kong and improve Hong Kong's internal traffic situation :
Presently, all road transportation from Hong Kong to Guangdong has to go through Shenzhen, which is not a very satisfactory scenario given the rapid increase in traffic volume between the two places. According to statistics, the traffic flow passing through Shenzhen was 10000 vehicles/day in 1989, which was increased to 20000 vehicles/day in 1992 - the figure has doubled in three years.
The result is heavy workload for the Shenzhen check points and saturated road traffic in the main north-south transportation routes between Shenzhen and Kowloon. If traffic congestion were to deteriorate, development of the transportation industry and the economies at large in Guangdong and Hong Kong will inevitably be undermined. This bridge project will open up a completely new transportation route for Hong Kong which will not only reduce traffic pressure between Guangdong and Hong Kong, but will also improve Hong Kong's strained internal highway network.
(ii) To help relieve the pressure on Humen Highway caused
by heavy traffic on both banks of Pearl River :
At present, there are only two highways plying between the two banks of Pearl River one is the circular highway that encircles Guangzhou city, the other is the Humen Highway that plys between Dongguan and Panyu. According to our survey, the daily traffic figure at the Humen ferry crossing-point is about 7 500, of which 70% head for Shenzhen and Hong Kong. Only 30% of the vehicles go north on way to eastern Guangdong and other regions. The queues that line up for ferry-crossing
are becoming quite a
at
Humen
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