The Bus lanes of Beijing can't far satisfy the demand, now the department concerned is planning the ground fast public transit system of Beijing, Mr. Liu Xiaoming, deputy director of Beijing Traffic Management Bureau revealed days ago. In the year of 2004, the bus lanes of Beijing would reach to 130 kilometers, there will be 400 kilometers of bus lanes network in Beijing by 2008, at that time, public transportation is expected to share 60% of commuter's traffic, in which the proportion of the rail traffic is 20%.

To the situation of traffic jam appearing in Beijing recently, Mr. Liu Xiaoming and Mr. Zhou Zhengyu, the deputy directors of Beijing Traffic Management Bureau expressed at the press conference, Beijing must take for developing the public transport including rail traffic as the important measure to alleviate the traffic jam throughout. The existing traffic resource of Beijing is not enough to support the situation taking car as main means of transportation, under this condition, must accelerate developing the public transit and rail traffic, and that do not replace the bicycle with the car, the car should be used in recreation and do shopping on festivals or holidays.

Beijing proposed the principle of bus priority in 80's of last century. At the present time, Beijing has the largest public transit network and the bus convey using the clean fuel in the world, but there is very great disparity in the development of public transit to compare with developed country. In developed countries, public transportation shares 60-80% of commuter's traffic, but its share of total traffic volume is only 26% in Beijing and this proportion also drops year by year, it is only about 24% at present.

Beijing has already made the detailed development tactics of public transit in order to guarantee that the public transit has priority. The first large capacity bus lane in Beijing -16 kilometers bus lane of Southern Zhongzhou Road will be put into running next year. Beijing would also build about 120 kilometers of large capacity public transit systems in the places such as Zhong Guan-cun, Chaoyang Road etc. in 2004. The total mileage of this system will reach to 200 kilometers by 2008, and the system will link up organically with the rail traffic, forming the large capacity public transit network.

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