Xiamen City air bike track demonstration like a beautiful green ribbon, winding through the city. It is the first air bicycle lane in the country. It can accommodate one way one side two lanes and 7.6 kilometers long. It is also the longest air bicycle lane in the world.
This bicycle lane is designed in the form of a bridge elevated, relying on the space construction under the BRT bridge of the bus rapid transit and making full use of the idle space in the city. This "highway" extends from the rear of BRT county to Hong Wen station. It's called bicycle air high road, because the project design speed per hour 25 to 30 kilometers, is two times the general bicycle lanes, and the entire 7.6 km without an intersection, no traffic lights, a way to navigate, to protect the exclusive right of way of bicycle riding. The entrance and exit two channels are equipped with gate machines to prohibit motor vehicles and electric vehicles.
In the design, the bicycle track demonstration adopts whole steel structure, steel structure is equivalent to the total 4 Eiffel Tower. The ground is made of hard resin antiskid pavement layer 7, environmentally friendly materials, wear-resistant and strong ground force; built-in night lighting system, all day long 24 hours to ensure safe riding; the maximum ramp slope is 5%, unilateral road width of 2.5 meters, two-way road width of 4.5 meters, the uphill effort calmly, many cars and smooth and comfortable; all contain 11 at the entrance, can be directly with the bus station, pedestrian bridges and buildings on both sides of the series convergence, 2 main area, 5 large residential communities, 3 important public buildings, 4 large commercial plazas and parks, schools and other public gathering point.
Recently, the city of Xiamen by air bike track construction steel EPC as the general contractor for the demonstration project in 2017 won the "China habitat environment award". According to the introduction, the unique planning of the project and the concept of green and harmonious design have become the key to the award.
In the 2017 international innovation Expo, the exhibition construction steel structure limited company is responsible to the reporter, this bike "highway" to meet the needs of the public green travel safety, it is also used as a means to relieve traffic congestion, build intensive traffic layout. According to incomplete statistics, on the first day of the Spring Festival holiday in 2016, the demonstration section has been tested for a month, and the total number of cycling is about 154 thousand passengers, with the highest daily riding capacity of 12 thousand. By the end of March 27th this year, more than 200 thousand passengers were riding in the air bicycle lane.
The source of the article: China Youth Daily