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Tuesday 2 February 2010 Shanghai Daily Shanghai Daily Tuesday 2 February 2010 C8 EXPO INSIGHT www.shanghaidaily.com www.shanghaidaily.com EXPO INSIGHT C9 BBansongyuanansongyuan RRdd EEntrancentrance Nanpu Bridge NNanpua Bridge npu Beat the traffic and enjoy your Expo visit Br i dge Line 9 Story by Yang Jian and Zha Minjie/Graphics by Huang Qifang How visitors are expected to get to the site Travel inside the park Madang Rd Xizang Rd S. Other 5% Have you started to plan your Expo visit? By Ferry 5% Free bus sections. Visitors will be able to ferry, wheel or Metro? Read our detailed traf- Another 42 shuttle Line 4 XXizangizang RRdd find a shuttle bus station 1 buses will make stops Luban Rd d S SS.. EntranceEntrance fic guide to make the best choice. every 250 meters within n R along the 2.4-kilometer- sha the 5.28-square-kilometer ng Bus Metro More Online long Expo Avenue of the ZZhongshanho Rd S1 Expo site, and buses will Pudong site. For more Expo news and 40% 50% roll by every minute. Luban Rd photos, visit xpo.sh/expo On the Puxi side, there Entrance If you drive A total of 120 buses will also be buses running will roll by every three along Longhua Road hua Rd E. No parking lots for private cars added, which will make driving near the LLuban Rd LLonghuaong Rd E. minutes to take about E. The stops along the u b will be set up around the 7-square- site a more frustrating experience. Line 8 How to avoid 220,000 visitors between bus route haven’t been a Line 13 kilometer controlled area containing n The city will have five major rush hour Pudong and Puxi Expo decided so far. R the Expo site and its immediate vicinity. d P+R (park and ride) lots in Jiading Only vehicles with Expo passes will be District’s Shanghai International The following tips are given by allowed into the area. Paid bus XXizangi Rd S. Tunnel Circuit, Hongqiao Transport Hub and the traffic authorities: za Besides free shuttle buses, visitors will also ng R To ease the traffic around the Expo Songjiang District, providing more than 1. Delay your visits to the Expo d be able to tour the grounds for a fee on eight- S site, 31 new one-way routes will be 10,000 spaces for private cars. site until after 10am to avoid rush- . seat, golf cart-like vehicles. They will mainly Tu LLupu Bridge nn hour traffi c. u e run on the elevated pedestrian roads and have p l u 2. Enter the site from the fi ve If you go by taxi capacity to take about 10,000 visitors every day. B sian r AAsian entrances in Pudong rather than i ions d PPavilionsavil AAsiansian Some 4,000 high-end World Expo to people inside the Expo area where g s BBailianailian RdRd the three in Puxi. This is because e PPavilionsavilion Ferry EEntrancentrance taxis will take visitors into and out of private cars are off-limits. about 75 percent of the ticket ma- Twenty-two ferry boats IInternationalnternational the Expo site, mainly through phone ation EExpoxpo The site will be open to other taxis chines are located on the Pudong OOrganizationrganiz r and 13 tour ships will take ions ions CCenterente Gaoke Rd W. and online reservations. EEuropeanuropean PavilionsPavil PPavilionsavil after 9pm each day to pick up late- side. visitors across the river. The CChinahina vilion The taxis will be able to offer service staying visitors. 3. Organizers will inform the visi- boats will run about 600 EExpoxpo AAveve PPaviliona s ion GGaokeaoke RRdd WW.. tors which entrances have fewest times to take 240,000 vil Pa NNorthorth RingRing RdRd EEntrancentrance visitors every day. an Guohuo Rd people by sending short messages fric Rd Zhongshan Rd S1 AAfrican Pavilions estrian ted Ped d and displaying the information on EElevatedleva Pedestrian Rd d R Metro R ng WWangjiaangj Matou Rd ilions ng Yuntai Rd ba ia Matou Rd large screens at the entrances to Metro Line 13 with three e Pav Ri jia TThemehem Pavilions h ao ut ZZhaojiabangh Rd the site. stations will run at six-minute AAmericamerica PavilionsPavilions SSoutho Ring Rd 4. All group visitors will enter the intervals and about three-minute 2 d S site from Pudong. intervals during peak periods. n R If you go ha Nanmatou Rd gs SShangnanhangnan RRdd on ZZhongshanh Rd S2 EEntrancentrance by Metro Luban Rd Huangpu River Yaohua Rd Five Metro lines will arrive Entrance Wharf Line 7 If you go by ferry HHoutanoutan Metro station CChangqinghangqing RRdd near the Expo site, with the EEntrancentrance EEntrancentrance Bus routes Elevated bus still-under-construction Line Four boarding areas, or Dongchang Road, will be 13 taking passengers to three Pudong Rd S. Bus stops Ferry routes Changqing Rd “water gates,” alongside the open to individual travelers. Houtan stations within the site, two Huangpu River, will enable They can serve at most on the Puxi side and one in 2 visitors to take vessels to 18,000 visitors per day. Pudong. 7 kmkm the Expo site after passing Address of the four N Expo site Special Line 13 with three stations security and ticket checks. “water gates” lanes for Area closed to If you go by bus bus with will run at six-minute intervals Yaohua Rd Three docks, in Pudong’s 1 1 Qinhuangdao Rd GGonghexinonghexin RRdd private vehicles Expo pass and about three-minute Qichangzhan area, Puxi’s WWenshuienshui RRdd 2 1 Qiancang Rd (90 km) intervals during peak periods. Shiliupu area and on Transport hubs (map SShanghaihanghai WWujiachangujiachang HHongkouongkou Special Expo ticket holders can take SSan-an- 3 1 Dongmen Rd on the right), including the FF11 CCircuitircuit Rd QQiaojia Rd N Qinhuangdao Road, will be FFootballootball lanes for d M iao iaoj the trains free after security g R m ppailouailou ia R WWangjiamatouangjiamato Rd city’s two airports, two xin en d u Rd reserved for group tours. 4 1 Dongchang Rd SStadiumtadium buses FFuxingu Rd M WWenmiao Rd RRdd HHuangjiau Rd checks at the Madang Road Rd ang railway stations and the (104 km) fei d d n Rd jia The fourth, on Pudong’s (serve individual travelers) HHefeie Rd . i R R gwe Rd DDongjiaduongjiadu RRdd Station where it connects with d E aj g han international circuit, will Transport R DDaji Rd in SShangwenNNanchezhan Rd Rd SShanghaihanghai uo FFangxie Rd al JJiangyiniangyin RRdd HHaichao Rd a a Puyu Rd W. Rd Puyu g P a Line 9 in Puxi. The six-carriage Puyu Rd E. Rd Puyu DDaling Rd P n n dispatch 16 direct bus hubs with ia n ic JJianguo Rd E. u RRailwayailway g c u h Dalian Rd Dalian ZZhizaoju Rd y a 1 h y Qinhuangdao Rd x o direct bus trains can carry 40,000 h u e u lines to the site, to carry SStationtation i R i e z z R d a h R lines R CChangfenghangfeng passengers per hour. a d o d 15 percent of the visitor d j n YYuanshenuanshen u W E W. R Qichangzhan AArearea R . d . volume. zi R d ng d SStadiumtadium Lines 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9 are MMengzie Rd W. E. d zi Rd i R Pudong Rd S. 2 MMengzieng Rd E. zha expected to carry 100,000 jia BBaotun Rd d Another 10 percent of Rd ling i R d ao XXilingjiazhaii a Rd x zi R liqi o u visitors are expected to CChuanshahuansha riders per hour to nine stations ng u t QQuxi Rd MMengzie Rd WWuliqiao Rd u HHongqiaoongqiao n near the Expo site during peak New take 20 regular bus routes, d R aairportirport i R d Special lanes only for bus with Rd ux which will provide extra SShanghaihanghai times. The lines will run until uxi QQuxi Rd Expo pass. QQuxi Rd Century Avenue service for the Expo. IIndoorndoor midnight. Free shuttle buses Rebuilt In neighboring cities in SStadiumtadium PPudongudong will take visitors between nine PPusan Rd u Authorities will also set the Yangtze River Delta, NNanmatou Rd s 4 Dongchang Rd IInternationalnternational close Metro stations (labeled a a LLanlin Rd n a up six shuttle bus routes, Huangpu River n n direct bus routes will set AAirportirport m R lin in the map above) and the site. d R Current one-way drives a d 105 runs a day, taking off from 19 tourism bus SShanghaihanghai SSouthouth t Nanjing Rd E. o Yan’an Rd E. u people in suburban areas centers. An estimated 3,800 RRailwayailway SStationtation The city’s other six New one-way drives R Shiliupu d 3 Zhangyang Rd to outlying stations of three tourism groups will arrive subways will run until at least One-way drives that change direction XXinzhuanginzhuang HHuinanuinan TTownown Fuxing Rd E. subways: Lines 7, 8 and 9. per day. 10:30pm..