According to Fan Jianjun, director of the Hangzhou Municipal Transportation Bureau, this bypass consists of the sections of the four national roads G104, G329, G235, and G320 that surround Hangzhou, with a total length of about 189 km.

By ZHOU LUYAN

Hangzhou will build its third bypass! It was learned from the recently held tenth session of the Hangzhou metropolitan circle traffic committee meeting that Hangzhou is planning to construct the third loop of highway around the city—temporarily named the Hangzhou City-cluster Bypass, commonly known as the third bypass of Hangzhou.

It is said that the Hangzhou third bypass will link Hangzhou East Railway Station, Xiaoshan International Airport, the west-city transportation hub, and Xiaoshan, Fuyang, etc.

At the same time, the Hangzhou third bypass is another express road connecting Hangzhou, Jiaxing, and Shaoxing, stringing up sub-centers of the city such as Linping, Pingyao, Yuhang, Linpu, Guali, Jiangdong New City and cities within the Hangzhou metropolitan zone such as Shaoxing, Haining, plus the more than 30 sub-district areas (towns, and townships) in the zone.

Along with the highway network, covering the highways of Hangzhou-Nanjing, Hangzhou-Xin’anjiang-Jingdezhen, Hangzhou-Anhui, Hangzhou-Jinhua-Quzhou, Shanghai-Hangzhou, and Hangzhou-Ningbo, the third bypass will be linked to the present bypass in use and the second bypass under-construction to form into a radiating high-speed road network.

The network completion means that from some areas around Hangzhou there will be no longer the need to drive across the main city nor the city bypass, instead, by taking the new road one can commute more conveniently. For example, from the Jiangdong New City to the Liangzhu, vehicles that have to go around the Hangzhou bypass will be able to go along the less-crowded third bypass.

In addition, the Hangzhou second bypass also has a breakthrough. The Xi-Fu section of the Hangzhou bypass comprises Hangzhou to Shaoxing and to Huzhou sections. Currently both of them have seen some progresses. Hangzhou to Shaoxing section is planned to start constructing within the year. An investment of about 50 billion yuan will be in place. The Xi-Fu section, together with the completed Zhuji-Yongjia, Shaoxing-Zhuji, Qianjiang channel and its junction project, will join the north junction project which will start constructing next year, to form into the 300 km long Hangzhou second bypass.

Different from the Hangzhou first bypass and the Hangzhou second bypass, which are the tolled roads, the third bypass is free, built in accordance with the technical norms of the urban roads. The construction is actively organized and is planned to finish during the 13th Five-Year period.