The phase-1 project of the Beijing Daxing International Airport Expressway, known as the new airport expressway, has been completed, and will be inspected for project acceptance in the first half of next year, according to the transportation authorities of Beijing.

In the second phase, the new airport expressway will be extended northward to connect to South Fourth Ring Road. By then, the new airport north line expressway will be extended westward to link to a branch of the Beijing-Xiongan Expressway. When these road projects are completed, Beijing residents will find it much easier to go to Xiongan.

The expressway project is an important part of the integrated trunk road network around the new airport, consisting of five vertical and two horizontal expressways. The expressway starts at about 450 meters east of the Tuanhe Bridge on South Fifth Ring Road, and ends at the north boundary of the new airport. With a total length of about 27 kilometers, the expressway is a two-way eight-lane road, with a design speed of 100-120 kilometers per hour. The 27-kilometer road mainly consists of bridges, with bridge surface taking up about 87 percent of the total. When completed, the expressway is expected to shorten the drive from South Fifth Ring Road to the new airport to just over 20 minutes.

According to the project manager, the first-phase roadwork of the new airport expressway has been completed, and the follow-up mechanical and electrical work in road pavement, lighting, monitoring, communication systems, and ancillary projects of environmental protection, greening and supporting facilities are in full swing, so that the project acceptance check can be conducted as scheduled in the first half of 2019.

Meanwhile, preparations for the second-phase project of the new airport expressway, stretching from South Fifth Ring Road to South Fourth Ring Road, are also well underway. This section is 8.5 kilometers long, extending from South Fifth Ring Road to the Gongyidong Bridge. It is a two-way six-lane fast track, with a design speed of 80 kilometers per hour.

As the first horizontal road of the road network around the New Airport Expressway, the northern extension is about 25 kilometers in length, with a design speed of 120 kilometers per hour. It is a two-way eight-lane expressway, with a surface width of 41 meters. It has 22 main bridges, four interchanges, two toll stations, two management zones, and two service zones.

The new airport north line expressway will be built in three sections: the middle section, the east section, and the west section. The middle section, from the Beijing-Kaifeng Expressway to the Beijing-Taipei Expressway totaling 14 kilometers in length, is scheduled to be completed by the end of the year. The east section starts from the Beijing-Taipei Expressway and ends at Langfang on the border of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province, with a designed length of 2.87 kilometers. The west section starts at the Beijing-Tianjin Expressway and ends at Zhuozhou on the border of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province, with a designed length of about 8.3 kilometers.

According to the plan, there will be four expressways around Beijing’s new airport, including the new airport expressway, the Beijing-Kaifeng Expressway, the Beijing-Taipei Expressway, and the New Airport North Line Expressway. Furthermore, three railways are under construction: the new airport express, the Beijing-Xiongan Railway, and the Langfang-Zhuozhou Intercity Railway. Among them, the new airport expressway and the new airport express railway provide direct access to downtown Beijing, connecting multiple points of the metro network.

At present, the traffic link between the new airport and the railway stations has taken shape. The Beijingxi Railway Station is 50 kilometers from the new airport, and the drive is shortened to 50 minutes. The distance between the Beijingnan Railway Station and the new airport is about 40 kilometers, and the drive only takes about 40 minutes. In the future, it will be more convenient for travelers to transfer between airports and train stations. In addition, the Beijing Capital International Airport is 80 kilometers from the new airport, and it is only a 70-minute drive.

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