On the 17th, the reporter learned from the Hangzhou Fuyang District Rail Transit Engineering Construction Command (hereinafter referred to as the Rail Transit Command) that the urban section of the Hangzhou-Fuyang Intercity Railway Project is about to officially start. Among the four stations in the urban section, Guihua Road Station and Gaojiao Road Station will be the first to commence.
On July 20, due to the construction needs of Guihua Road Station, enclosure operations will be carried out in areas such as the Dongfangmao roundabout, which means Fuyang will officially enter a “painful period of subway construction.”
The Dongfangmao roundabout will be demolished, the 514 bus station will be relocated, and pipelines along the road will be relocated. The next three years will be a “painful period of subway construction” for Fuyang.
On July 14, this newspaper published a traffic diversion announcement for the construction of Guihua Road Station and Gaojiaoyuan Station in the urban section of the Hangzhou-Fuyang Intercity Railway. The construction preparation stage for the Guihua Road section is divided into two phases. The first phase is to complete the hardening of the central median from Jinqiao North Road (intersection with Xianpu Road) to Jinqiao South Road (intersection with Stadium Road) and the demolition of the Dongfangmao roundabout. “Starting from July 20, the Dongfangmao roundabout will be closed, demolished, and hardened,” said the relevant person in charge of the Rail Transit Command. During this phase, traffic on Jinqiao South and North Roads will basically remain as usual, maintaining two-way four-lane traffic north of Hengliangting Road and two-way six-lane traffic south of it.
Jinqiao North Road is the area with the densest underground pipelines in the urban area. Along the route are China Telecom's main computer room, thousands of communication optical cables, gas pipelines, water supply pipelines, power cables, military optical cables, etc., which need to be relocated. The second phase is the pipeline relocation for Guihua Road Station, which will take more than four months to temporarily relocate all underground pipelines within the construction area. During construction, enclosures will be set up on both sides of Jinqiao North Road on the sidewalks, non-motorized vehicle lanes, and motor-non-motor vehicle separation belts, and the intersection from Sunquan Road to Hengliangting Road will also be closed. “Due to space constraints, and to save costs and speed up progress, temporary concrete poles will be set up on both sides of Guihua Road Station to erect temporary communication optical cables,” said the head of the Rail Transit Command. The cityscape of the project construction section will be temporarily affected, but after completion, the concrete poles and communication optical cables will be removed one by one.
In addition to demolishing the Dongfangmao roundabout, the 514 bus station also needs to “move” for the intercity railway construction. According to the introduction, the temporary transitional 514 station will be located at the southwest corner of the intersection of Wenju Street and Enbo Avenue. Currently, the temporary transitional station will complete bidding recently and be relocated as soon as possible after construction.
The Dongfangmao roundabout is located at a five-way intersection and is one of the most congested nodes in the urban area. Taking this construction opportunity, the Rail Transit Command is currently working with planning and transportation departments to optimize the design of the five-way intersection.
There are four stations in the urban section of the intercity railway, each with a main construction period of two years. At present, the Qiche North Station and Fuchun Station have also completed preliminary preparations and will soon undergo traffic diversion announcements.
“With four stations under construction simultaneously, the traffic pressure in the urban area is indeed quite high,” said the head of the Rail Transit Command. With the start of intercity railway station construction, the urban area, especially the Jinqiao North Road area, will face very great traffic pressure. “According to on-site traffic flow statistics, near the Dongfangmao roundabout, the one-way traffic volume on a single road is 1,000—1,500 vehicles per hour.” The person in charge introduced that to alleviate traffic pressure, local reconstruction and widening of the sidewalks on both sides of Jinqiao North Road will be carried out for temporary traffic use, to basically ensure two-way four-lane traffic on the roads outside the main construction area, and channelization measures will be adopted at all intersections to alleviate congestion.
Completion by the end of 2020, with through operation with Metro Line 6; the 320 National Highway section will be constructed simultaneously with the Rainbow Expressway.
The Hangzhou-Fuyang Intercity Railway is carried out in two phases. The starting station of the first phase is Meiyuan Xiangshan Station in Xihu District, heading west into Yinhu Street and Fuchun Street in Fuyang District, with the terminal station being Guihua Road Station in Fuchun Street. The total length of the line is 23.5 kilometers, with 11 stations; the length within Fuyang is 16.7 kilometers, with stations including Wenchuangyuan Station, Kechuangyuan Station, Shouxiang Station, Gaoqiao Station, Qiche North Station, Gaojiao Road Station, Fuchun Station, and Guihua Road Station. The design speed is 100 km/h, and it will be completed by the end of 2020.
The entire project will operate through with Hangzhou Metro Line 6. The project within Fuyang mainly consists of the urban part, the Songjiatang vehicle depot, and the 320 National Highway part. After the intercity railway is completed, the travel time from Fuyang to Hangzhou will be shortened to 30 minutes.
At present, the Songjiatang vehicle depot has completed the requisition of 630 mu of collective land, the relocation of more than 200 graves, the demolition of residential houses, the assessment of Lintang Reservoir, and the forest land occupation permit from the Provincial Forestry Department. The 320 National Highway section will start and be constructed simultaneously with the Rainbow Expressway, with shared foundation pit construction. The implementation of these two major transportation projects will accelerate the progress of transportation integration with Hangzhou in our district.
Previously, some citizens believed that the “Guihua Road” station is located on Guihua West Road, and the station name is not appropriate. The head of the Rail Transit Command introduced that the current 8 stations of the Hangzhou-Fuyang Intercity Railway are all names during project construction, not the station names after completion. After the intercity railway project is completed, the stations will be renamed through the Place Name Office, and some suggestions put forward by citizens in the early stage will also be used as references for naming.