On June 28, when the questions and answers concerning Yichang administrative affairs on TV for the first time, questions about problems such as the urban waterlog, traffic jam and parking difficulty were raised. On August 21, Yichang Urban Planning Bureau put forward the following solutions.
To solve the problem of the urban waterlog, in old urban district with combined sewer system, the sewage should be brought to a closure on the basis of the combined sewer system. While in the new urban district, a separate system should be adopted. As for storm-water drainage, the landform and drainage should be made full use of and the rainwater should be spread into nearby bodies of water. In the meantime, the major drainage channel should be dredged and reasonable layout of drainage sites are required in part of the district with drainage difficulty.
To relieve the traffic jam, three longitudinal and five transverse expressways and four longitudinal and three transverse arterial roads will be built as the framework connecting districts, the main channel within the districts will be common arterial road and secondary trunk road, and the traffic microcirculation supplement will be the bypass. When the expressway network is completed, going to or coming down from the expressway within the urban district will only cost five minutes, the distance traveled between districts will cost less than 30 minutes and travel to all the districts will be finished within one hour.
Bikeway will be built on the arterial and secondary trunk road with favorable conditions. These roads are: Development Avenue, Yanjiang Avenue, Jiangjun Road, Wulong Road, Yunji Road (except the tunnel), Zhongnan Road, Shantou Road, Dongshan Third Road, Hanyi Road, Zhangjiawan Road, Yingbin Avenue, etc.
As for solution to the parking difficulty, the index will be raised from 0.4 percent to 1 percent, and the site selection, program review and the final acceptance of construction will be all included in the rigid planning indicators. (Reporter Ye Xiaomei, Correspondent Wang Junwu)