Development course of Urumqi light rail

On February 23-24, 65438, the Party Committee of Wuchang held the second enlarged meeting, focusing on the 11th Five-Year Plan of Wuchang. The 11th Five-Year Plan of Wuchang clearly mentions that Urumqi and changji city should give priority to the development of urban public transport and start the intercity rail transit of Wuchang. At the same time, Yang Gang, member of the Standing Committee of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Party Committee, secretary of Wuchang Municipal Party Committee and secretary of Urumqi Municipal Party Committee, also mentioned that the start of urban light rail projects in Five Blessingg and Urumqi has been put on the agenda. At present, Wuchang area has initially formed a transportation system with roads as the mainstay and railways, civil aviation and pipelines as the equal emphasis. The Outline of Urumqi Urban Rail Transit Network Planning has put forward an X-shaped intercity light rail transit construction scheme with Urumqi as the center, Fukang in the northeast, Shihezi in the northwest, Nanshan Scenic Area in the southwest and Turpan in the southeast. "Planning" also invited domestic experts to demonstrate the light rail transit planning this month, and prepared to apply to the state for project approval. According to relevant sources, this plan has been prepared for three years, and it can be initially designed as three lines: A, B and C, with an estimated investment of more than 654.38 billion yuan. As the plan is being revised and discussed, it has not been published after the review. After the light rail is completed, the travel time between Wuchang and Urumqi will be shortened by half, and it takes only half an hour to reach Urumqi and changji city, and only 1 hour to reach the surrounding counties and cities such as Fukang. The construction scale of light rail transit projects that citizens in Wuchang area are most concerned about will reach the urban light rail 1 line with a total length of about 24 kilometers and the intercity light rail lines in Wuchang and Fukang with a total investment of 8.5 billion yuan. The main work in 2006 is to improve the planning of light rail network and complete the preparation of approval annexes such as light rail transit land control planning; Prepare the light rail construction plan. Urumqi light rail planning scheme Line A: Airport ~ North Second Ring Road ~ Beijing Road ~ Xinyi Road ~ Youhao Road ~ Xinhua Road ~ Zhongshan Road ~ Jiefang Road ~ Qitai Road ~ South Railway Station; The total length is 24. 1 km, with 25 stations. Line B: Yingbin Road ~ Weixing Road ~ changchun road ~ Suzhou Road ~ Nanhu Road ~ Xinmin Road ~ Jiefang Road ~ Heping Road ~ Yan 'an Road ~ Police Academy; The total length is 23.5 kilometers, with 2 stations1station. Line C: Karamay Road ~ Qingnian Road ~ Jianguo Road ~ Xingfu Road ~ Zhonghuan Road ~ Santun North Road ~ Water Park; Total length 16.9 km, with 20 stations. At the 25th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th Municipal People's Congress, it was learned that the capital initially planned to build intercity light rail to changji city, Ganquanbao Industrial Zone and Dabancheng District. According to the cooperation agreement reached between the Ministry of Railways and the people's government of the autonomous region, the Ministry of Railways has arranged for the First Railway Survey and Design Institute to start the planning of Urumqi intercity light rail, and the capital has been docked with the First Railway Survey and Design Institute, initially drawing up the construction of Urumqi intercity light rail with a total length of about 220 kilometers leading to changji city, Ganquanbao Industrial Zone and Dabancheng District. At the same time, the 156.2km Urumqi East and West Ring Expressway project has been included in the Xinjiang highway network planning, and the East Ring Expressway is scheduled to start construction on 20 1 1 month. At present, the preliminary work of land acquisition and demolition within the scope of project implementation has started. At present, the existing road mileage in the capital is 1.599 km, the road area is 1.922 m2, the road network density is 4.7 1 km/km2, and the per capita road area is 7.97 m2. The number of motor vehicles in the capital has exceeded 3 1 000. Traffic congestion is a hot issue of concern to the citizens of the capital. In recent years, the capital has improved citizens' travel conditions by speeding up the construction of road traffic infrastructure, implementing the day-to-night freight system on urban roads, and commuting at wrong times.