Transportation infrastructure
1. Overview of present transportation infrastructure
Road:
Currently, the major roads, as the roads leading to Qipanshan Scenic Region and passing Botanical Garden, include Shen-Qi Road and North Shen-Fu Road in the south, and Ma-Song Highway and Mao-Wang Highway in the north of the garden.
Parking site
The parking site, outside the western entrance of the Botanical Garden, occupies an area of 7000 square meters. In front of the southern entrance, the existing parking site is 3000 square meters. Inside the garden, it can hold 700 to 1000 vehicles.
Bus routes
Bus 330 stops outside of the western entrance and Bus 234 stops outside of the southern entrance.
Railway
Currently, one train line leads to Botanical Garden from Shenyang Railway Station. During the summit in holidays, the both-way train runs 22 times a day. During summit hours, it can carry 2000 to 2500 passengers at most.
2. Goal of the layout
Construct a comprehensive transportation system that features easy reach, safe, convenient and comfortable. Build a passenger transportation service system which provides good interchange service, with railway and bus as the framework, the minibus as the basis and other transportation methods as supplementation.
Build a highway system with Shen-Qi Road and Jian-Xilinhaote Road as the framework and other roads as supplementation, which is equipped with convenient parking facilities, is efficient and enough to meet the traffic need.
3. Forecast of passenger flow
Means of transportation |
Railway |
Regular bus |
Traveling bus |
Minibus (including taxi) |
Others |
Total |
Proportion |
17% |
44% |
20% |
15% |
4% |
100% |
Passenger flow |
25,500 |
66,000 |
30,000 |
22,500 |
6,000 |
150,000 |
• Layout of outside transportation
• Layout for rebuilding highway
Shen-Qi Road: It starts from North Shen-Fu Road in the south and reaches Qipanshan Scenic Area in the north, with a total length of 13.2 Km. The planned road will be 22.5 meters in width and include 6 driveway in 2 directions for motor vehicles.
Ma-Song Road: It starts from the 3 rd Ring Road in the west and reaches Shen-Qi Road in the east, with a total length of 12.3 Km. It will be rebuilt to be 7 meters in width.
Ji-Xi Expressway: It starts from Jian and ends in Xilinhaote, and the Shenyang section (3 rd Ring Road to Shen-Qi Road) is 6.8 Km in length and include 4 driveways in 2 directions.
North Shen-Fu Road: The road will be built to the traveling road along Hunhe Scenic belt.
• Layout for parking site
Statistics for distribution of parking lot: (Effective parking area is counted, excluding green area.)
Means of parking |
Unit |
Permanent parking |
Temporary parking |
Temporary parking belt along road |
Total |
Main entrance |
Area (m 2 ) |
35,000 |
15,000 |
From the railway to the southern boundary of the Botanical Garden, 1 Km in length, parking on one side; Parking space:160 |
50,000 |
Parking space (unit) |
1170 |
500 |
1670 |
Western entrance |
Area (m 2 ) |
10,000 |
20,000 |
30,000 |
Parking space (unit) |
350 |
700 |
From Shen-Qi Road to the crooked road outside the southern entrance, 1.7 Km in length; parking on both sides;
Parking space: 540 |
1210 |
Southern entrance |
Area (m 2 ) |
5000 |
15,000 |
20,000 |
Parking space (unit) |
180 |
500 |
1220 |
Total |
Area (m 2 ) |
50,000 |
50,000 |
Total length of parking belt is 2.7 Km |
100,000 |
Parking space (unit) |
1700 |
1700 |
Parking space: 700 |
4000 |
(3) Layout of railway
The layout plan, jointly submitted by Shenyang Railway Bureau and The 2 nd Reconnaissance & Design Institute under Ministry of Railway, is as follows:
A train will pass every half an hour. Each train will include 20 cars and each car will carry 140 passengers. One-way carriage of passengers will be 25000 per day.
• Rail transportation
Line 1 of express rail transportation will extend eastward to Botanical Garden along Shen-Qi Road.
• Water transportation
The Hunhe River will be utilized to ship passengers, which will connect Shenshuiwan Park, Wulihe Park, East Lake Park and IFGE area. It will become a very attracting traveling line of Shenyang.
5. Layout for Internal Transportation
For internal transportation, partial ¡°U¡± turn fly-over crossing, directional fly-over crossing and side path of parking site will be built to realize ¡°first in, first out.¡±
• Regular bus transportation: Regular bus route will start from major passenger-gathering points. Twelve routes are primarily planned.
• Special traveling bus: Visitors can take special traveling bus to each scenic spots of Qipanshan Scenic Area at the southern area of main entrance plaza.
• Group passenger bus: Group passenger bus station will be set at the western area of main entrance plaza.
• Minibus: Minibus station will be set at both sides of main entrance plaza. The northern one will mainly serve vehicles from Jian-Xilinhaote expressway and the southern one for vehicles from the urban area.
• Internal sightseeing battery cars: Connect the main roads to each scenic spot inside the garden and form a ring road. Set 15 stops in the garden. The total line is 6 Km long and will take 45 minutes.
6. Layout for Emergent transportation
• Set 12 emergent traffic control sites surrounding the Botanical Garden.
• During the IFGE, current transportation vehicles from Fushun to Shenyang will take other roads.
• Adopt tide-section control on Shen-Qi Road.
• Set special carpool line on Shen-Qi Road during the IFGE period.
• Roadside parking will be arranged along Shen-Qi Road and road along southern entrance of the Botanical Garden.
• Traffic control on the date of opening ceremony: Certain section of Shen-Qi Road will be peremptorily closed, only for passage of leaders and VIPs. Other vehicles will be prohibited.
North of the railway, 7 to 9 meters of emergent passage can be set on the present Shen-Qi Road. |
