On the first weekend after the opening of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor, multiple travel needs such as family visits and tourism were superimposed. The willingness of residents in Shenzhen, Zhongshan and surrounding areas in Guangdong Province to travel has increased, and it has also driven the surrounding cultural tourism, catering and other consumer markets.
Before 9 o'clock in the morning, there was already a queue in front of the bus stop in Qianhaiwan of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan cross-city bus line. In just a few minutes, a 42-seater bus was full of passengers.
In order to meet the capacity, Shenzhen Bus Group has deployed additional vehicles to provide support, and the operating time has also been extended from 7 am to 9:30 pm. The bus route from Zhongshan to Shenzhen is also hot, with weekend tickets sold out two days in advance.
Starting at 9 o'clock in the morning of the 6th, the situation of slowing down multiple vehicles in both directions of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor continued after 8 o'clock in the evening. In the first weekend after the opening of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor, it also drove a number of consumer markets such as cultural tourism and catering. In the Happy Harbor Scenic Area in Bao'an District, Shenzhen, many buses with license plates from Zhongshan, Jiangmen and other places are full of tourists.
In the urban area of Zhongshan, it also ushered in a lot of passenger flow. At more than 9 o'clock in the morning, many vehicles in the surrounding sections of the memorial hall of Sun Yat-sen's former residence were hung with Shenzhen license plates.
The Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor ushered in the first weekend travel peak
The Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor was officially opened for trial operation on June 30 and has been in operation for a week. As of 3 p.m. today (July 7), the total traffic volume of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor in the first week exceeded 720,000 trips, and the average daily traffic exceeded 100,000 trips.
Source: CCTV Finance