China Tibet News
Megan
September 11, 2015
According to the information of Tibet Business Daily reporters, the high-grade highway between Lhasa and Nyingchi is expected to start a trial operation on September 15.
On September 10, 2015, reporters from Tibet Business Daily drove from education city in Lhasa to Maizhokunggar County by the Lhasa-Nyingchi high-grade highway to experience highway condition of this section. The whole journey takes about only about 40 minutes.
Photo taken at 11:05 am of September 10, 2015 shows that freeway entrance has not yet open to the public.
Lhasa-Nyingchi high-grade Highway is one of key projects in Tibet’s twelfth Five-Year Plan. The high-grade highway is about 409.2 kilometers long. Once it opens to traffic, the traffic time from Lhasa to Nyingchi is expected to reduce more than two hours.
Photo taken at 11:13 am of September 10, 2015 shows the No.1 Taktse Tunnel.
Three rows of induction lamps light up the tunnel, which allows car drivers to have a very clear sight of road condition in these tunnels. No.2 Taktse Tunnel is less than a few hundred meters from the No.1 Taktse Tunnel.
Right near here, there is a viewing deck named Bagaxue Viewing Deck.
Black-necked cranes choose to pass the winter in this wet land, so passengers and citizens passing by can see black-necked cranes here when the winter comes.
When one arrives at Maizhokunggar County, it is a good choice to take a bath in Dezhong Hot Spring. One staff on site says that once the monitoring equipment is ajusted, the high-grade highway between Lhasa and Nyingchi shall start its trial operation. At that time, passengers and citizens can go to Nyingchi and back from Lhasa on the freeway. Besides, monitoring equipment installed on the highway all relays on solar and wind energy generation. Several good-sized LED display screens are installed to display information of the whole region’s road traffic situations.
