In recent days, China once again issue number one in all media. Not only because we now Japan as 2nd has overtaken the world's largest economy. For last two miles of traffic jams China put on everyone's lips, the latter will jam chines. According to news agencies have been even 120km long. Surprising? Not really.
First of all, a closer look at the situation to be thrown. Just like the congestion that occurred a few weeks ago and the latest 120km traffic jam was on the same highway, the G6 Jingzang Expressway instead - a prestige project der chinesischen Regierung. Denn dieser zum Teil noch in Bau befindliche 4 spurige Expressway soll in wenigen Jahren die Hauptstadt Beijing mit dem tibetischen Lhasa verbinden. Die geplante Streckenführung von mehr als 3710km ist deshalb so lang, weil die Straße nicht direkt nach Südwesten, sondern über mehrere kleine Umwege von der Hauptstadt weg zunächst nach Nordosten hinweg durch Hebei und die innere Mongolei führt ehe die Strecke durch einen Südwest-Knick durch Ningxia, Gansu und Qinghai durch letztendlich in Lhasa/Tibet endet. Momentan ist der Abschnitt Beijing-Gansu bereits fertiggestellt und in Betrieb (ein genauer Fertigstellungstermin kann aufgrund extremer vorherrschender Wetterbedingungen nicht gegeben werden) und genau in diesem Teilabschnitt is played out also said 120km traffic jam - just put in a section between Beijing and Inner Mongolia.
Why exactly there? Because were only recently discovered large coal resources in Inner Mongolia - China as the world's largest coal producer (with annual quantities beyond 1300 million tons) is extremely important. So far most of the coal was always the province of Shanxi, it is also the latest discoveries in Inner Mongolia to change anything. But in contrast to inner Mongolia we have will be driven in Shanxi, where the economy to the overwhelming majority of coal, a thing of the black gold adjusted - roads and highways were specially developed for coal transportation. In Inner Mongolia cavort daweil thousands of truck lanes on a 4 road because the construction of the G6 Expressways no one knew anything about the coal deposits in the inner Mongolian or underestimated.
-tightening has also attributed to the government reduce the years, the tax on new cars thus boosting the national car industry and to simultaneously present in times of economic crisis better numbers to. Although this had a Scheme largely from the purchase of more private cars and less on trucks, was still by the overall number of cars on China's roads increased - the auto-variable is growing in comparison to the roads variable bit faster, more and more cars have fewer and fewer own Trat Road Quad meters square. This may in such a large country like China with a sound paradoxical motorway network beyond the 65.000km, but yes, the traffic is concentrated only in urban centers. In Beijing alone, where every day 2000 car registrations (!) Take place, will be reached this weekend, the 4.5 million trades after the 4 million mark was exceeded only in December 2009, which represents an increase of half a million cars within ¾ of a year - and that in Beijing alone!
Corresponding provisions of the Beijing municipal government to make such as cars go, depending on odd or even mark a day, could not solve the problem - quite the opposite. After all, who is now a car as straight plate and had wanted to use this not only every other day, just bought a second car with odd license plates. Who can afford a car in China can also easily make a second one has not for one or two cars, the money or - There is nothing in between (keyword: scissors between rich and poor). But even in the booming financial hub Shanghai, battle against the increasing traffic, albeit with some radical methods: For in the port city is the growth of car registrations in the number of available number plates coupled. In fact, are 50 000 per year license plates available for new registrations, which are then sold at auction like the future drivers - so the city government erwitschaftet also happen to be a significant additional amount.
those looking for a chines. Highway driving is in the middle of nowhere, which mainly falls on one thing: It actually looks only trucks, what with the size of the entire country is not surprising. Under such circumstances, the chines. Government speak quite lucky that the private car traffic "only" restricted to urban areas, because between the major cities, the traffic to 90% of truck freight dominated - for the home, it is much easier in the train or plane for example Beijing travel to Shanghai (which would take in the car at least 14 hours). In this respect, China's congestion problem is largely an urban phenomenon, because the last two said highway congestion change little. For if the G6 Expressway from the beginning designed for coal transportation would have been, it would probably never come to such a dynamic and global outcry in the media - does the Shanxi coal transportation so more or less correctly.
should dismiss the whole affair as silly season is omitted then perhaps not only because of the environmental aspect. For the G6 Expressway project - just as it did several years ago, the Beijing-Lhasa railway line - is not only the development of local infrastructure (in Tibet, there is no eizige highway), but also as a demonstration of power of the chines. Central Government against rebellious ethnic minorities in the population. By looking at the plans for the expansion of the national highway system (blue: in operation, red under construction / planning) should be taught above all a message: Remote areas are as by long probe closer to the center of power shifted back and made more tangible. The dimensions of this concept are mainly of the plans for the construction of expressways Jingtai G3 - a highway with a direct link from Beijing to Taipei, Taiwan. But not only natural (a 100 km long bridge across the Formosa), but also political difficulties of this project should lead to an extremely more interesting endeavor to let it decay.
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