China News Service, Chengdu, December 10 (Reporter Wang Peng and Liu Zhongjun) The opening ceremony of the Chengdu Metropolitan Circle Line Expressway was held in Dujiangyan on the 10th.
The reporter learned from the scene that the Deyang-Dujiangyan Expressway of the G0511 line will be completed and opened to traffic at 24:00 on the same day, marking the full opening of the Chengdu Metropolitan Circle Expressway, which connects 3 cities and 16 counties.
The Chengdu Metropolitan Circle Expressway was included in the Sichuan Expressway Network Planning in 2011. It is the third ring expressway in the Chengdu Metropolitan Circle, with a total mileage of 443 kilometers (including 425 kilometers of the main loop line and 18 kilometers of the loop line to the Mianzhu branch line). The investment is 61.4 billion yuan, with two-way six lanes.
Aerial photography G0511 line Deyang to Dujiangyan Expressway.
Photo by Liu Zhongjun
The project involves 3 cities including Chengdu, Deyang, and Meishan. Among them are 237 kilometers within Chengdu, 129 kilometers from Deyang, and 77 kilometers from Meishan, connecting Jianyang City, Eastern New District, Renshou County, Dongpo District, Pengshan District, Pujiang County, and Chengdu Plain Economic Zone. 16 districts (cities) and counties including Qionglai City, Dayi County, Chongzhou City, Dujiangyan City, Pengzhou City, Shifang City, Mianzhu City, Jingyang District, Zhongjiang County, Jintang County, etc., are connected to 13 cities including Chengyu and Chengmian. Chengdu Radiation Expressway opened to traffic.
The reporter learned that the Chengdu Metropolitan Circle Expressway connects the major cities of the Chengdu Metropolitan Circle, and realizes interconnection with many ordinary national and provincial trunk lines and important express highways, which will help relieve traffic congestion in dense urban development areas and effectively improve regional traffic inland connectivity. Outside smooth level.
"We have been expecting this highway to open to traffic, and the countryside of Dujiangyan can also be integrated into the urban area of Chengdu." Xia Chunmin, director of Guilin Community, Tianma Town, Dujiangyan, told reporters that Dujiangyan is the main producing area of Hongyang kiwi, and the Guilin community alone has a planting area of 100,000. mu.
In the past, the transportation of kiwifruit was difficult. It took 2 hours to transport from Dujiangyan to the Pengzhou Mengyang fruit sales market.
"After the high-speed is opened, farmers can go to Mengyang to sell fruits directly, and the whole journey takes only half an hour."
Aerial photography G0511 line Deyang to Dujiangyan Expressway.
Photo by Liu Zhongjun
According to reports, the opening of the Chengdu Metropolitan Circle Expressway to traffic signifies that the three ring expressways planned for the Chengdu Metropolitan Circle have been fully completed. Through the effective connection of 13 external radial highways including Chengyu, Chengmian, Chengle, and Chengya, they are in the area. Form a "checkerboard-style highway network" with loops and radiation.
In addition, the nearest distance between the Chengdu Metropolitan Circle Expressway and Tianfu International Airport is less than 5 kilometers, and cities such as Mianyang, Deyang, Ya'an, Meishan, Leshan, Suining, and Ziyang will be able to quickly reach Tianfu Airport via the Chengdu Metropolitan Circle Expressway.
Through the efficient connection of various comprehensive transportation hubs and important logistics nodes such as Qingbaijiang International Railway Port, it will help form an efficient and smooth modern circulation system and support the creation of an international comprehensive transportation hub in Chengdu.
Wang Maokui, a member of the party group and chief engineer of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Transportation, said that the next step is to continue to improve the external expressway of the metropolitan area with Chengdu as the core, and strive to improve the level of inter-regional interconnection.
Focus on accelerating the construction of 5 highway projects under construction, including Chengmian expansion, Chengnan expansion, Chengle expansion, Tianqiong, Desui, etc., to promote the newly started Chengyu expansion, Chengzilu expansion, Tianmeile, Chengwen, Qiong Ya and other 5 highway projects.
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